Respect for Marriage Act

Bill: 114-s-29
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2015-01-06
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations

Judicial procedure and administration

Marriage and family status

Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S16-17)

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-01-06
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Respect for Marriage Act</b></p> <p>Amends the Defense of Marriage Act to repeal a provision that prohibited a state, territory, possession, or Indian tribe from being required to recognize any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other state, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a same sex marriage.</p> <p>Amends the federal rules of construction added by such Act concerning the definitions of &quot;marriage&quot; and &quot;spouse&quot; to provide that, for 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. Removes the definition of &quot;spouse&quot; (currently, a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife).</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 29 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 6, 2015 Mrs. Feinstein (for herself, Ms. Baldwin , Mr. Bennet , Mr. Blumenthal , Mr. Booker , Mrs. Boxer , Mr. Brown , Ms. Cantwell , Mr. Cardin , Mr. Carper , Mr. Casey , Mr. Coons , Mr. Durbin , Mr. Franken , Mrs. Gillibrand , Mr. Heinrich , Ms. Hirono , Mr. Kaine , Mr. King , Ms. Klobuchar , Mr. Leahy , Mr. Markey , Mrs. McCaskill , Mr. Menendez , Mr. Merkley , Ms. Mikulski , Mr. Murphy , Mrs. Murray , Mr. Peters , Mr. Reed , Mr. Reid , Mr. Sanders , Mr. Schatz , Mr. Schumer , Mrs. Shaheen , Ms. Stabenow , Mr. Tester , Mr. Udall , Mr. Warner , Ms. Warren , Mr. Whitehouse , and Mr. Wyden ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Respect for Marriage Act . 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. 3. Marriage recognition Section 7 of title 1, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 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. .