US Congress Senate Bill 753 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12)
Status: Introduced on March 17 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-17 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Social Security and Marriage Equality Act Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act with respect to the determination of a valid marriage to account for marriages in jurisdictions other than a state. Authorizes the courts of any state to find that an OASDI benefit applicant and an insured individual were validly married in a jurisdiction other than a state at the time the applicant files a benefit application or, if the insured individual is dead, at the time the individual died.

Social Security and Marriage Equality Act

Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]
Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-17	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB1404 (Same As) 2015-03-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
HB2025 (Related) 2015-05-12 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/753/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s753/BILLS-114s753is.pdf