S 753
114th Congress
Senate
Social Welfare
Marriage and family status
Social security and elderly assistance
Social Security and Marriage Equality Act
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 17, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mar 17, 2015
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
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.
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.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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