Senate Bill S5858B

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Designates lay individuals as one-day marriage officiants in order to solemnize marriages

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S5858 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1137
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Domestic Relations Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§11, 12, 13 & 13-b, Dom Rel L; add §110, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A6952
2015-2016: A5223
2019-2020: S1430, S3652, A4895
2021-2022: S739, A6300

2017-S5858 - Summary

Designates lay individuals as one-day marriage officiants in order to solemnize marriages.

2017-S5858 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5858 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5858
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 3, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law and  the  executive  law,  in
   relation to designating lay individuals to solemnize marriages
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 11 of the domestic  relations  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 3-b to read as follows:
   3-B.  A  ONE-DAY MARRIAGE OFFICIANT, AS DESIGNATED BY THE SECRETARY OF
 STATE PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED TEN OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 2. Section 12 of the domestic relations law is amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  12.    Marriage, how solemnized.  No particular form or ceremony is
 required when a marriage is solemnized as herein provided by a clergyman
 [or], magistrate, OR ONE-DAY MARRIAGE OFFICIANT  AS  DESIGNATED  BY  THE
 SECRETARY  OF STATE PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED TEN OF THE EXECUTIVE
 LAW but the parties must solemnly declare in the presence of a clergyman
 [or], magistrate,  OR  ONE-DAY  MARRIAGE  OFFICIANT  and  the  attending
 witness  or  witnesses  that  they take each other as [husband and wife]
 SPOUSES.  In every case, at least one witness beside the clergyman [or],
 magistrate, OR ONE-DAY MARRIAGE OFFICIANT must be present at the ceremo-
 ny.
   The preceding provisions of this chapter, so far as they relate to the
 manner of solemnizing marriages, shall not affect  marriages  among  the
 people  called friends or quakers; nor marriages among the people of any
 other denominations having as such any particular  mode  of  solemnizing
 marriages;  but  such marriages must be solemnized in the manner hereto-
 fore used and practiced in their respective societies or  denominations,
 and marriages so solemnized shall be as valid as if this article had not
 been enacted.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02161-03-7
              

2017-S5858A - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1137
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Domestic Relations Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§11, 12, 13 & 13-b, Dom Rel L; add §110, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A6952
2015-2016: A5223
2019-2020: S1430, S3652, A4895
2021-2022: S739, A6300

2017-S5858A - Summary

Designates lay individuals as one-day marriage officiants in order to solemnize marriages.

2017-S5858A - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5858A - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5858--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 3, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary  --  recommitted
   to the Committee on Judiciary in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
   --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
   and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law and  the  executive  law,  in
   relation to designating lay individuals to solemnize marriages
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 11 of the domestic  relations  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 3-b to read as follows:
   3-B.  A  ONE-DAY MARRIAGE OFFICIANT, AS DESIGNATED BY THE SECRETARY OF
 STATE PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED TEN OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 2. Section 12 of the domestic relations law is amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  12.    Marriage, how solemnized.  No particular form or ceremony is
 required when a marriage is solemnized as herein provided by a clergyman
 [or], magistrate, OR ONE-DAY MARRIAGE OFFICIANT  AS  DESIGNATED  BY  THE
 SECRETARY  OF STATE PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED TEN OF THE EXECUTIVE
 LAW but the parties must solemnly declare in the presence of a clergyman
 [or], magistrate,  OR  ONE-DAY  MARRIAGE  OFFICIANT  and  the  attending
 witness  or  witnesses  that  they take each other as [husband and wife]
 SPOUSES.  In every case, at least one witness beside the clergyman [or],
 magistrate, OR ONE-DAY MARRIAGE OFFICIANT must be present at the ceremo-
 ny.
   The preceding provisions of this chapter, so far as they relate to the
 manner of solemnizing marriages, shall not affect  marriages  among  the
 people  called friends or quakers; nor marriages among the people of any
 other denominations having as such any particular  mode  of  solemnizing
 marriages;  but  such marriages must be solemnized in the manner hereto-
 fore used and practiced in their respective societies or  denominations,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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2017-S5858B (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1137
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Domestic Relations Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§11, 12, 13 & 13-b, Dom Rel L; add §110, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A6952
2015-2016: A5223
2019-2020: S1430, S3652, A4895
2021-2022: S739, A6300

2017-S5858B (ACTIVE) - Summary

Designates lay individuals as one-day marriage officiants in order to solemnize marriages.

2017-S5858B (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5858B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5858--B
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 3, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary  --  recommitted
   to the Committee on Judiciary in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
   --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
   and recommitted  to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill
   amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
   tee
 
 AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law and  the  executive  law,  in
   relation to designating lay individuals to solemnize marriages
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 1-a, 2 and 3-a of section 11 of the  domes-
 tic relations law, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 95 of the laws of
 2011,  subdivision  1-a  as  amended  by chapter 96 of the laws of 2011,
 subdivision 2 as amended by section 1 of subpart E of part B of  chapter
 20  of  the laws of 2015, and subdivision 3-a as added by chapter 450 of
 the laws of 2014, are amended and a new subdivision 3-b is added to read
 as follows:
   1. A clergyman or minister of any religion, or by the  senior  leader,
 or  any  of the other leaders, of The Society for Ethical Culture in the
 city of New York, having its principal office in the borough of  Manhat-
 tan,  or  by  the  leader  of  The Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture,
 having its principal office in the borough of Brooklyn of  the  city  of
 New  York,  or  of the Westchester Ethical Society, having its principal
 office in Westchester county, or of the Ethical Culture Society of  Long
 Island,  having  its principal office in Nassau county, or of the River-
 dale-Yonkers Ethical Society having its principal office in Bronx  coun-
 ty,  or  by  the  leader of any other Ethical Culture Society affiliated
 with the American Ethical Union; provided that no clergyman or  minister
 as  defined in section two of the religious corporations law, or Society
 for Ethical Culture leader shall be required to solemnize  any  marriage

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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