US Congress House Bill 197 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 149-4-1)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-02 - Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
Pending: House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Respect for Marriage Act Amends the Defense of Marriage Act to repeal a provision that prohibited a state, territory, possession, or Indian tribe from being required to recognize any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other state, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a same sex marriage. Amends the federal rules of construction added by such Act concerning the definitions of "marriage" and "spouse" to provide that, for purposes of any federal law in which marital status is a factor, an individual shall be considered married if that individual's marriage is valid in the state where the marriage was entered into or, in the case of a marriage entered into outside any state, if the marriage is valid in the place where entered into and the marriage could have been entered into in a state. Removes the definition of "spouse" (currently, a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife).

Respect for Marriage Act

Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]	Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R-FL]	Rep. Nancy Pelosi [D-CA]	Rep. Steny Hoyer [D-MD]
Rep. James Clyburn [D-SC]	Rep. Xavier Becerra [D-CA]	Rep. Joseph Crowley [D-NY]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]
Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]	Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]
Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]	Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]	Rep. Michael Capuano [D-MA]	Rep. Tony Cardenas [D-CA]
Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]
Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]	Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]	Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA]
Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO]	Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]
Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D-TX]	Rep. Michael Doyle [D-PA]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]
Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Bill Foster [D-IL]	Rep. Lois Frankel [D-FL]
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard [D-HI]	Rep. Ruben Gallego [D-AZ]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]
Rep. Janice Hahn [D-CA]	Rep. Richard Hanna [R-NY]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Brian Higgins [D-NY]
Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Steve Israel [D-NY]	Rep. Joseph Kennedy [D-MA]
Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]
Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Nita Lowey [D-NY]	Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]	Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]
Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. Patrick Murphy [D-FL]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Frank Pallone [D-NJ]	Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]	Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]
Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA]
Rep. Kurt Schrader [D-OR]	Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]	Rep. Brad Sherman [D-CA]
Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]	Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]
Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Niki Tsongas [D-MA]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]
Rep. Juan Vargas [D-CA]	Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX]	Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]	Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]
Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]	Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]
Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]	Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. John Delaney [D-MD]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]
Rep. Linda Sanchez [D-CA]	Rep. Elizabeth Esty [D-CT]	Rep. Jim Cooper [D-TN]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]
Rep. William Keating [D-MA]	Rep. Alan Grayson [D-FL]	Rep. David Scott [D-GA]	Rep. Sander Levin [D-MI]
Rep. Madeleine Bordallo [D-GU]	Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D-IL]	Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]	Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY]	Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. David Price [D-NC]
Rep. Richard Nolan [D-MN]	Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]	Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger [D-MD]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]
Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Pete Aguilar [D-CA]	Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]
Rep. Robert Dold [R-IL]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Carlos Curbelo [R-FL]	Rep. John Carney [D-DE]
Rep. Rick Larsen [D-WA]	Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ]	Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]	Rep. John Larson [D-CT]
Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]	Rep. Cheri Bustos [D-IL]	Rep. Loretta Sanchez [D-CA]	Rep. Denny Heck [D-WA]
Rep. James Himes [D-CT]	Rep. Brad Ashford [D-NE]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]	Rep. Raul Ruiz [D-CA]
Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]	Rep. Karen Bass [D-CA]	Rep. Robert Brady [D-PA]	Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]
Rep. Donna Edwards [D-MD]	Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]	Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]	Rep. Beto O'Rourke [D-TX]
Rep. Ami Bera [D-CA]	Rep. Gwen Graham [D-FL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-02	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
2015-01-07	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2015-01-07	House	Introduced in House

SB29 (Same As) 2015-01-06 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S16-17)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/197/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr197/BILLS-114hr197ih.pdf