Senate Bill sb2536

    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 2536

    By Senator Atwater





    25-1650-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to marriage licenses; amending

  3         s. 741.0405, F.S.; deleting provisions

  4         authorizing the court to issue a marriage

  5         license upon the sworn application that both

  6         minor applicants are the parents of a child or

  7         the expectant parents of a child; deleting

  8         provisions authorizing the court to issue a

  9         marriage license upon written verification by a

10         physician and sworn application that the minor

11         female applicant is an expectant parent;

12         providing an effective date.

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14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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16         Section 1.  Section 741.0405, Florida Statutes, is

17  amended to read:

18         741.0405  When marriage license may be issued to

19  persons under 18 years.--

20         (1)  If either of the parties shall be under the age of

21  18 years but at least 16 years of age, the county court judge

22  or clerk of the circuit court shall issue a license for the

23  marriage of such party only if there is first presented and

24  filed with him or her the written consent of the parents or

25  guardian of such minor to such marriage, acknowledged before

26  some officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments and

27  administer oaths.  However, the license shall be issued

28  without parental consent when both parents of such minor are

29  deceased at the time of making application or when such minor

30  has been married previously.

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 2536
    25-1650-06




 1         (2)  The county court judge of any county in the state

 2  may, in the exercise of his or her discretion, issue a license

 3  to marry to any male or female under the age of 18 years, upon

 4  application of both parties sworn under oath that they are the

 5  parents of a child.

 6         (3)  When the fact of pregnancy is verified by the

 7  written statement of a licensed physician, the county court

 8  judge of any county in the state may, in his or her

 9  discretion, issue a license to marry:

10         (a)  To any male or female under the age of 18 years

11  upon application of both parties sworn under oath that they

12  are the expectant parents of a child; or

13         (b)  To any female under the age of 18 years and male

14  over the age of 18 years upon the female's application sworn

15  under oath that she is an expectant parent.

16         (2)(4)  No license to marry shall be granted to any

17  person under the age of 16 years, with or without the consent

18  of the parents, except as provided in subsections (2) and (3).

19         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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22                          SENATE SUMMARY

23    Repeals provisions authorizing the court to issue a
      marriage license upon the sworn application that both
24    minor applicants are the parents of a child or the
      expectant parents of a child. Repeals provisions
25    authorizing the court to issue a marriage license upon
      written verification by a physician and sworn application
26    that the minor female applicant is an expectant parent.

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