Bill Text: TX HB2638 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to intervention by the attorney general in a suit involving recognition of a same-sex marriage or civil union.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-16 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB2638 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2638-Introduced.html
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| By: Chisum | H.B. No. 2638 | |
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| relating to intervention by the attorney general in a suit | ||
| involving recognition of a same-sex marriage or civil union. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 6.204, Family Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) The attorney general may intervene in a suit involving a | ||
| right or claim asserted as a result of a marriage between persons of | ||
| the same sex or a civil union at any time before the 90th day after | ||
| the date a judgment is rendered in the suit. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a | ||
| suit that is pending in a trial court on the effective date of this | ||
| Act or filed on or after that date. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
