HJRES 37
111th Congress
House
Families
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Intergovernmental relations
Jurisdiction and venue
Marriage and family status
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
State and local government operations
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage.
Introduced: March 4, 2009
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 16, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
Mar 4, 2009
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Mar 4, 2009
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Constitutional Amendment - Requires marriage in the United States to consist only of a legal union of a man and a woman.
Prohibits any federal or state court from having jurisdiction to determine whether the Constitution or any state constitution requires the legal incidents of marriage to be conferred upon any union other than a legal union between one man and one woman.
Prohibits requiring any state to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other state concerning a union between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage, or as having the legal incidents of marriage, under the laws of such other state.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
Committees of jurisdiction
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