US Congress Senate Bill 29 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 43-2)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-01-06 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S16-17)
Pending: Senate Judiciary 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

Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]
Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]
Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]
Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]
Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Angus King [I-ME]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D-MD]	Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]
Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Harry Reid [D-NV]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]
Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]
Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]	Sen. Joe Donnelly [D-IN]
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp [D-ND]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-06	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S16-17)

HB197 (Same As) 2015-02-02 - Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/29/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s29/BILLS-114s29is.pdf