Social Security and Marriage Equality Act

Bill: 113-s-2305
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2014-05-08
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Marriage and family status

Social security and elderly assistance
Latest action: action_date: 2014-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-05-08
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2305 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 8, 2014 Mrs. Murray (for herself, Mr. Udall of Colorado , Mr. Merkley , and Ms. Baldwin ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend the method by which the Social Security Administration determines the validity of marriages under title II of the Social Security Act.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Social Security and Marriage Equality Act . 2. Determination of valid marriage under the Social Security Act (a) In general Section 216(h)(1)(A)(i) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 416(h)(1)(A)(i) ) is amended by striking is domiciled and all that follows through the District of Columbia, and inserting and such applicant were married (or, if such insured individual and such applicant were not married in any State but were validly married in another jurisdiction, the courts of any State) . (b) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply to all final determinations of family status made after June 26, 2013.