BILL NUMBER: AB 2600	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  268
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 24, 2010
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 31, 2010
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 31, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 31, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 20, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 25, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ma
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Lieu)

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to add Section 400.1 to the Family Code, relating to
marriage and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2600, Ma. Marriage: solemnization.
   Existing law provides that a marriage may be solemnized by
authorized persons of any religious denomination, by specified
legislators, constitutional officers, and California Members of
Congress, while those persons are currently holding that office, and
by specified justices, judges, and magistrates, both current and
retired.
   This bill would authorize an elected mayor of a city, while that
person holds that office, to solemnize a marriage ceremony, and would
require the mayor to obtain and review from the county clerk all
available instructions for marriage solemnization before the mayor
first solemnizes a marriage.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 400.1 is added to the Family Code, to read:
   400.1.  In addition to the persons specified in Section 400,
marriage may also be solemnized by a mayor of a city elected in
accordance with Article 3 (commencing with Section 34900) of Chapter
4 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 4 of the Government Code, while
that person holds office. The mayor shall obtain and review from the
county clerk all available instructions for marriage solemnization
before the mayor first solemnizes a marriage.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to relieve the workloads of county clerks who currently
deputize mayors as deputy commissioners of civil marriage prior to
the solemnization of a marriage, and to provide citizens with more
options as they choose their wedding officiants, it is necessary that
this act take effect immediately.