New York A 4356: Authorizes certain military personnel to get married within twenty-four hours of receiving a marriage license

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
A04356 Summary:

BILL NOA04356 

&nbsp

SAME ASNo Same As

&nbsp

SPONSORGallahan

&nbsp

COSPNSR

&nbsp

MLTSPNSR

&nbsp

Amd §13-b, Dom Rel L; amd §10, Veterans' Services L

&nbsp

Authorizes certain military personnel who are scheduled to be deployed within thirty days to get married within twenty-four hours of receiving a marriage license.

Go to top A04356 Actions:

BILL NOA04356 

&nbsp

02/04/2025referred to judiciary

01/07/2026referred to judiciary

Go to topA04356 Committee&nbspVotes:

Go to topA04356 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA04356 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4356

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. GALLAHAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Judiciary

 AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law and the veterans' services
 law, in relation to allowing marriages within twenty-four hours of
 receiving a marriage license

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 13-b of the domestic relations law, as separately
 2 amended by section 39 of part PP of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022 and
 3 chapter 68 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
 4 § 13-b. Time within which marriage may be solemnized. [A] 1. Except as
 5 provided in subdivision two of this section, a marriage shall not be
 6 solemnized within twenty-four hours after the issuance of the marriage
 7 license, unless authorized by an order of a court of record as herein-
 8 after provided, nor shall it be solemnized after sixty days from the
 9 date of the issuance of the marriage license unless authorized pursuant
 10 to section ten of the veterans' services law. Every license to marry
 11 hereafter issued by a town or city clerk, in addition to other require-
 12 ments specified by this chapter, must contain a statement of the day and
 13 the hour the license is issued and the period during which the marriage
 14 may be solemnized. It shall be the duty of the clergyman, magistrate, or
 15 one-day marriage officiant, as designated by a town or city clerk pursu-
 16 ant to section eleven-d of this article, performing the marriage ceremo-
 17 ny, or if the marriage is solemnized by written contract, of the judge
 18 before whom the contract is acknowledged, to annex to or endorse upon
 19 the marriage license the date and hour the marriage is solemnized. A
 20 judge or justice of the supreme court of this state or the county judge
 21 of the county in which either party to be married resides, or the judge
 22 of the family court of such county, if it shall appear from an examina-
 23 tion of the license and any other proofs submitted by the parties that
 24 one of the parties is in danger of imminent death, or by reason of other

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07496-01-5

 A. 4356 2

 1 emergency public interest will be promoted thereby, or that such delay
 2 will work irreparable injury or great hardship upon the contracting
 3 parties, or one of them, may, make an order authorizing the immediate
 4 solemnization of the marriage and upon filing such order with the cler-
 5 gyman, magistrate, or one-day marriage officiant performing the marriage
 6 ceremony, or if the marriage is to be solemnized by written contract,
 7 with the judge before whom the contract is acknowledged, such clergyman,
 8 magistrate or such one-day marriage officiant may solemnize such
 9 marriage, or such judge may take such acknowledgment as the case may be,
 10 without waiting for such three day period and twenty-four hour period to
 11 elapse. The clergyman, magistrate, judge, or such one-day marriage offi-
 12 ciant, as designated by a town or city clerk pursuant to section
 13 eleven-d of this article, must file such order with the town or city
 14 clerk who issued the license within five days after the marriage is
 15 solemnized. Such town or city clerk must record and index the order in
 16 the book required to be kept [by him or her] for recording affidavits,
 17 statements, consents and licenses, and when so recorded the order s