H.B. No. 984

	AN ACT
	relating to certain information required to be provided to an
	applicant for a marriage license.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 2.009(c), Family Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(c)  On the proper execution of the application, the clerk
	shall:
	(1)  prepare the license;
	(2)  enter on the license the names of the licensees,
	the date that the license is issued, and, if applicable, the name of
	the person appointed to act as proxy for an absent applicant, if
	any;
	(3)  record the time at which the license was issued;
	(4)  distribute to each applicant written notice of the
	online location of the information prepared under Section 2.010
	regarding [printed materials about] acquired immune deficiency
	syndrome (AIDS) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and note on
	the license that the distribution was made; and
	(5)  inform [distribute to] each applicant:
	(A)  that a premarital education handbook
	developed [provided] by the child support division of the office of
	the attorney general under Section 2.014 is available on the child
	support division's Internet website; or
	(B)  if the applicant does not have Internet
	access, how the applicant may obtain a paper copy of the handbook
	described by Paragraph (A).
	SECTION 2.  Section 2.010, Family Code, is amended to read as
	follows:
	Sec. 2.010.  AIDS INFORMATION; POSTING ON INTERNET. The
	[Materials providing information about acquired immune deficiency
	syndrome (AIDS) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) shall be
	prepared and provided to the clerk by the Texas] Department of State
	Health Services [and] shall prepare and make available to the
	public on its Internet website information about acquired immune
	deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
	The information must be designed to inform an applicant for a
	marriage license [the applicants] about:
	(1)  the incidence and mode of transmission of AIDS and
	HIV;
	(2)  the local availability of medical procedures,
	including voluntary testing, designed to show or help show whether
	a person has AIDS or HIV infection, antibodies to HIV, or infection
	with any other probable causative agent of AIDS; and
	(3)  available and appropriate counseling services
	regarding AIDS and HIV infection.
	SECTION 3.  Section 2.014(c), Family Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(c)  The premarital education handbook under Subsection
	(b)(1) must:
	(1)  as provided by Section 2.009(c)(5), [shall] be
	made available [distributed] to each applicant for a marriage
	license in an electronic form on the Internet website of the child
	support division of the office of the attorney general or, for an
	applicant who does not have Internet access, in paper copy form; [as
	provided by Section 2.009(c)(5)] and
	(2) [shall]  contain information on:
	(A) [(1)]  conflict management;
	(B) [(2)]  communication skills;
	(C) [(3)]  children and parenting
	responsibilities; and
	(D) [(4)]  financial responsibilities.
	SECTION 4.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
	an application for a marriage license submitted to a county clerk on
	or after the effective date of this Act. An application for a
	marriage license submitted before the effective date of this Act is
	governed by the law in effect immediately before that date, and the
	former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 984 was passed by the House on April
	3, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 984 on May 23, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2
	present, not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 984 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 22, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
	0.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date
	__________________
	Governor