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[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 197 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 197

  To repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State 
                        regulation of marriage.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 7, 2015

 Mr. Nadler (for himself, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. 
    Clyburn, Mr. Becerra, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Polis, Mr. 
Cicilline, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Sinema, 
 Mr. Takano, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Bonamici, Ms. Brownley of California, 
  Mrs. Capps, Mr. Capuano, Mr. Caardenas, Mr. Cartwright, Ms. Chu of 
  California, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. 
  Connolly, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Cummings, Mrs. Davis of California, Mr. 
    DeFazio, Ms. DeGette, Ms. DelBene, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Deutch, Mr. 
Doggett, Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Ellison, Ms. Eshoo, 
Mr. Farr, Mr. Foster, Ms. Frankel of Florida, Ms. Gabbard, Mr. Gallego, 
 Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Ms. Hahn, Mr. 
 Hanna, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Honda, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Israel, 
Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Kilmer, Ms. Kuster, Mr. Langevin, Ms. Lee, 
 Mr. Lewis, Mr. Loebsack, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Lowenthal, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. 
Lynch, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Ms. McCollum, Ms. Meng, Ms. 
Moore, Mr. Murphy of Florida, Ms. Norton, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Perlmutter, 
 Mr. Peters, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Rangel, Ms. Roybal-Allard, 
 Mr. Sarbanes, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Schrader, Mr. Scott of 
    Virginia, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Sherman, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Smith of 
  Washington, Ms. Speier, Mr. Swalwell of California, Ms. Titus, Mr. 
    Tonko, Ms. Tsongas, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Veasey, Ms. 
 Velaazquez, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Welch, Ms. Wilson of Florida, 
Mr. Yarmuth, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Meeks, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Delaney, 
 Mr. Thompson of California, Ms. Linda T. Saanchez of California, Ms. 
Esty, and Mr. Cooper) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL

 
  To repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State 
                        regulation of marriage.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Respect for Marriage Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF SECTION ADDED TO TITLE 28, UNITED STATES CODE, BY 
              SECTION 2 OF THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT.

    Section 1738C of title 28, United States Code, is repealed, and the 
table of sections at the beginning of chapter 115 of title 28, United 
States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to that section.

SEC. 3. MARRIAGE RECOGNITION.

    Section 7 of title 1, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows:
``Sec. 7. Marriage
    ``(a) For the 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.
    ``(b) In this section, the term `State' means a State, the District 
of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or 
possession of the United States.''.
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