Virginia Senate Joint Resolution 5 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 15 2022 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-03-08 - Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: House Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Constitutional amendment (second reference); marriage; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman as well as the related provisions that are no longer valid as a result of the United States Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015). The amendment provides that the right to marry is a fundamental right inherent in the liberty of persons and requires the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions and agents to issue marriage licenses, recognize marriages, and treat all marriages equally under the law, regardless of the sex or gender of the parties to the marriage. Religious organizations and clergy acting in their religious capacity have the right to refuse to perform any marriage.

Constitutional amendment; fundamental right to marry, same-sex marriage prohibition.

Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Sen. Barbara Favola [D]	Sen. Ghazala Hashmi [D]
Sen. Joseph Morrissey [D]

2022-03-01 - House - House: Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (4-Y 6-N) (Y: 4 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2022-02-15 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and agreed to by Senate (25-Y 14-N) (Y: 25 N: 14 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2022-02-09 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 3-N) (Y: 13 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-01-18 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (10-Y 5-N) (Y: 10 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-08	House	Left in Privileges and Elections
2022-03-01	House	Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (4-Y 6-N)
2022-02-28	House	Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #1
2022-02-22	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2022-02-22	House	Placed on Calendar
2022-02-15	Senate	Read third time and agreed to by Senate (25-Y 14-N)
2022-02-14	Senate	Passed by for the day
2022-02-11	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2022-02-10	Senate	Read first time
2022-02-09	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 3-N)
2022-01-20	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2022-01-20	Senate	Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
2022-01-18	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections (10-Y 5-N)
2021-12-22	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2021-12-22	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100319D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SJ5
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SJ5+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S08V0016+SJ0005
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S05V0184+SJ0005
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+SV0502SJ0005+SJ0005
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+H1801V0022+SJ0005