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[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3567 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3567

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

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 15, 2009

    Mr. Nadler of New York (for himself, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Polis of 
Colorado, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Engel, Ms. Kilroy, Ms. Speier, Ms. Berkley, 
  Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Israel, Ms. 
Schakowsky, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Abercrombie, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Stark, Mr. 
Wexler, Mr. Welch, Ms. Linda T. Sanchez of California, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. 
Capuano, Mr. Weiner, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Olver, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Markey 
 of Massachusetts, Ms. Norton, Mr. Hodes, Mr. Ackerman, Ms. Velazquez, 
 Mr. Andrews, Mr. Fattah, Mr. George Miller of California, Ms. Lee of 
   California, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Honda, Mr. McDermott, Ms. Wasserman 
Schultz, Ms. Watson, Mrs. Lowey, Ms. Clarke, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Brady of 
Pennsylvania, Mr. Gutierrez, Ms. Edwards of Maryland, Mr. Kucinich, Mr. 
 Pallone, Mr. Holt, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Towns, Mr. Lewis of 
Georgia, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. Becerra, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mr. 
 Filner, Mr. Waxman, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Murphy of Connecticut, Mr. 
    Pastor of Arizona, Mrs. Capps, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Delahunt, Mr. 
  McGovern, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Sestak, Mr. Berman, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mr. 
Jackson of Illinois, Mr. Rothman of New Jersey, Mr. Kennedy, Mrs. Davis 
    of California, Ms. Pingree of Maine, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Tonko, Ms. 
     Tsongas, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Matsui, Ms. Harman, Mrs. 
 Napolitano, Mr. Tierney, Mr. Himes, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Doyle, Ms. Zoe 
Lofgren of California, Mr. Farr, Mr. Meeks of New York, Mr. Rangel, Mr. 
 Maffei, Ms. DeLauro, Ms. Castor of Florida, Ms. McCollum, and Mr. Wu) 
 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 of 2009''.

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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