HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2669
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGE.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 572-13, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  Marriages, reported by whom.  It shall be the duty of every person, legally authorized to perform the marriage ceremony, to report within three business days every marriage ceremony, performed by the person, to the agent of the department of health in the district in which the marriage takes place setting forth all facts required to be stated in a standard certificate of marriage, the form and contents of which shall be prescribed by the department of health[; provided that if any person who has solemnized a marriage fails to report it to the agent of the department of health, the parties married may provide the department of health with a notarized affidavit attesting to the fact that they were married and stating the date and place of the solemnization of the marriage.  Upon the receipt of that affidavit by the department of health, the marriage shall be deemed to be valid as of the date of the solemnization of the marriage stated in the affidavit; provided that the requirements of section 572-1 are met]."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Public Documents; Marriage; Record of Solemnization; Report to DOH

Description:

Repeals the option of persons to have their marriages validated by providing DOH with a notarized affidavit attesting to the marriage in the event that the person who solemnized the marriage fails to report the marriage to DOH.

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