H.R.8404 - Respect for Marriage Act was cosponsored by David Cicilline, Sharice Davids, Mondaire Jones, Sean Maloney, Mark Pocan, Mark Takano, Angie Craig, Chris Pappas, Ritchie Torres, Joyce Beatty, Raul Ruiz, Judy Chu, Hakeem Jeffries, Adam Smith, Donald Payne, Anthony Brown, Janice Schakowsky, Bonnie Watson Coleman, James Cooper, Danny Davis, Katie Porter, Troy Carter, Alan Lowenthal, John Larson, Sylvia Garcia, Ami Bera, Donald Norcross, Theodore Deutch, Paul Tonko, Emanuel Cleaver, Haley Stevens, Linda Sánchez, Henry Johnson, David Trone, Jamaal Bowman, Ayanna Pressley, Ann Kuster, Nanette Barragan, Chellie Pingree, Adriano Espaillat, Ruben Gallego, Peter Welch, James Langevin, Eleanor Norton, Grace Meng, Cheri Bustos, Frederica Wilson, Frank Pallone, Brian Higgins, John Sarbanes, Karen Bass, Adam Schiff, Brenda Lawrence, Joaquin Castro, Sara Jacobs, Mike Thompson, Steven Horsford, Mark Desaulnier, Salud Carbajal, Sean Casten, Kaiali'i Kahele, Marilyn Strickland, Jamie Raskin, Jackie Speier, Mikie Sherrill, Gerald Connolly, Rashida Tlaib, Earl Blumenauer, Melanie Stansbury, Jake Auchincloss, Robin Kelly, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Nikema Williams, Bill Foster, Dina Titus, Alma Adams, Raúl Grijalva, Lloyd Doggett, Brendan Boyle, Ted Lieu, Deborah Ross, Lizzie Fletcher, John Garamendi, Marcy Kaptur, Cynthia Axne, Derek Kilmer, Pramila Jayapal, Debbie Dingell, Barbara Lee, Carolyn Maloney, Jason Crow, McEachin A., James Himes, Al Lawson, Tony Cárdenas, Sheila Jackson Lee, Jim Costa, Joseph Morelle, Pete Aguilar, John Yarmuth, Daniel Kildee, Andy Levin, Mike Doyle, Charlie Crist, Dwight Evans, Greg Stanton, Nydia Velazquez, Jimmy Gomez, Darren Soto, Betty McCollum, Correa J., Lucille Roybal-Allard, William Pascrell, Suzan Delbene, Doris Matsui, Ann Kirkpatrick, Grace Napolitano, Lisa Blunt Rochester, Colin Allred, Diana Degette, Gwen Moore, Joe Neguse, Julia Brownley, Peter Defazio, Steve Cohen, Andy Kim, Abigail Spanberger, Eric Swalwell, Dean Phillips, Donald Beyer, Gregory Meeks, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Stephen Lynch, Andre Carson, Jerry McNerney, Terri Sewell, Ilhan Omar, Rick Larsen, Lori Trahan, Raja Krishnamoorthi, William Keating, Al Green, Mike Quigley, Stephanie Murphy, Kathy Castor, Katherine Clark, Teresa Leger Fernandez, Jahana Hayes, Ed Perlmutter, Anna Eshoo, Madeleine Dean, Tom Malinowski, Josh Gottheimer, Bradley Schneider, Seth Moulton, Lauren Underwood, Susan Wild, Kweisi Mfume, Robert Scott, Elissa Slotkin, Scott Peters, Brad Sherman, Kathy Manning, Tim Ryan, Jennifer Wexton, Kim Schrier, Jimmy Panetta, Suzanne Bonamici, James McGovern, Thomas Suozzi, Tom O'Halleran, Matt Cartwright, Veronica Escobar, David Price, Rosa Delauro, Lois Frankel, Conor Lamb, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Mary Scanlon, Albio Sires, Butterfield G.K., Val Demings, Juan Vargas, Mike Levin, Carolyn Bourdeaux, Richard Neal, Marie Newman, Norma Torres, Elaine Luria, Robert Menendez, Charles Schumer, Mitch McConnell, Jeanne Shaheen, Ron Johnson, Ben Cardin, Christopher Coons, Thomas Tillis, Tammy Baldwin, Timothy Kaine, Angus King, Lisa Murkowski, Christopher Murphy, Rob Portman, Jacklyn Rosen, Richard Shelby, John Thune, David Cicilline, Sharice Davids, Mondaire Jones, Sean Maloney, Mark Pocan, Mark Takano, Angie Craig, Chris Pappas, Ritchie Torres, Joyce Beatty, Raul Ruiz, Judy Chu, Hakeem Jeffries, Adam Smith, Donald Payne, Anthony Brown, Janice Schakowsky, Bonnie Watson Coleman, James Cooper, Danny Davis, Katie Porter, Troy Carter, Alan Lowenthal, John Larson, Sylvia Garcia, Ami Bera, Donald Norcross, Theodore Deutch, Paul Tonko, Emanuel Cleaver, Haley Stevens, Linda Sánchez, Henry Johnson, David Trone, Jamaal Bowman, Ayanna Pressley, Ann Kuster, Nanette Barragan, Chellie Pingree, Adriano Espaillat, Ruben Gallego, Peter Welch, James Langevin, Eleanor Norton, Grace Meng, Cheri Bustos, Frederica Wilson, Frank Pallone, Brian Higgins, John Sarbanes, Karen Bass, Adam Schiff, Brenda Lawrence, Joaquin Castro, Sara Jacobs, Mike Thompson, Steven Horsford, Mark Desaulnier, Salud Carbajal, Sean Casten, Kaiali'i Kahele, Marilyn Strickland, Jamie Raskin, Jackie Speier, Mikie Sherrill, Gerald Connolly, Rashida Tlaib, Earl Blumenauer, Melanie Stansbury, Jake Auchincloss, Robin Kelly, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Nikema Williams, Bill Foster, Dina Titus, Alma Adams, Raúl Grijalva, Lloyd Doggett, Brendan Boyle, Ted Lieu, Deborah Ross, Lizzie Fletcher, John Garamendi, Marcy Kaptur, Cynthia Axne, Derek Kilmer, Pramila Jayapal, Debbie Dingell, Barbara Lee, Carolyn Maloney, Jason Crow, McEachin A., James Himes, Al Lawson, Tony Cárdenas, Sheila Jackson Lee, Jim Costa, Joseph Morelle, Pete Aguilar, John Yarmuth, Daniel Kildee, Andy Levin, Mike Doyle, Charlie Crist, Dwight Evans, Greg Stanton, Nydia Velazquez, Jimmy Gomez, Darren Soto, Betty McCollum, Correa J., Lucille Roybal-Allard, William Pascrell, Suzan Delbene, Doris Matsui, Ann Kirkpatrick, Grace Napolitano, Lisa Blunt Rochester, Colin Allred, Diana Degette, Gwen Moore, Joe Neguse, Julia Brownley, Peter Defazio, Steve Cohen, Andy Kim, Abigail Spanberger, Eric Swalwell, Dean Phillips, Donald Beyer, Gregory Meeks, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Stephen Lynch, Andre Carson, Jerry McNerney, Terri Sewell, Ilhan Omar, Rick Larsen, Lori Trahan, Raja Krishnamoorthi, William Keating, Al Green, Mike Quigley, Stephanie Murphy, Kathy Castor, Katherine Clark, Teresa Leger Fernandez, Jahana Hayes, Ed Perlmutter, Anna Eshoo, Madeleine Dean, Tom Malinowski, Josh Gottheimer, Bradley Schneider, Seth Moulton, Lauren Underwood, Susan Wild, Kweisi Mfume, Robert Scott, Elissa Slotkin, Scott Peters, Brad Sherman, Kathy Manning, Tim Ryan, Jennifer Wexton, Kim Schrier, Jimmy Panetta, Suzanne Bonamici, James McGovern, Thomas Suozzi, Tom O'Halleran, Matt Cartwright, Veronica Escobar, David Price, Rosa Delauro, Lois Frankel, Conor Lamb, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Mary Scanlon, Albio Sires, Butterfield G.K., Val Demings, Juan Vargas, Mike Levin, Carolyn Bourdeaux, Richard Neal, Marie Newman, Norma Torres and Elaine Luria.
It was referred to the Judiciary committee.
This bill provides statutory authority for same-sex and interracial marriages.
Specifically, the bill repeals and replaces provisions that define, for purposes of federal law, marriage as between a man and a woman and spouse as a person of the opposite sex with provisions that recognize any marriage that is valid under state law. (The Supreme Court held that the current provisions were unconstitutional in United States v. Windsor in 2013.)
The bill also repeals and replaces provisions that do not require states to recognize same-sex marriages from other states with provisions that prohibit the denial of full faith and credit or any right or claim relating to out-of-state marriages on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin. (The Supreme Court held that state laws barring same-sex marriages were unconstitutional in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015; the Court held that state laws barring interracial marriages were unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia in 1967.) The bill allows the Department of Justice to bring a civil action and establishes a private right of action for violations.
117th CONGRESS 2d Session |
To repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage, and for other purposes.
July 18, 2022
Mr. Nadler (for himself, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Davids of Kansas, Mr. Jones, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Takano, Ms. Craig, Mr. Pappas, Mr. Torres of New York, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Ruiz, Ms. Chu, Mr. Jeffries, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Payne, Mr. Brown of Maryland, Ms. Schakowsky, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Porter, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Bera, Mr. Norcross, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Cleaver, Ms. Stevens, Ms. Sánchez, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Trone, Mr. Bowman, Ms. Pressley, Ms. Kuster, Ms. Barragán, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Welch, Mr. Langevin, Ms. Norton, Ms. Meng, Mrs. Bustos, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Higgins of New York, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms. Bass, Mr. Schiff, Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Castro of Texas, Ms. Jacobs of California, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Horsford, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Casten, Mr. Kahele, Ms. Strickland, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Speier, Ms. Sherrill, Mr. Connolly, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Stansbury, Mr. Auchincloss, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. Foster, Ms. Titus, Ms. Adams, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Doggett, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Lieu, Ms. Ross, Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. Garamendi, Ms. Kaptur, Mrs. Axne, Mr. Kilmer, Ms. Jayapal, Mrs. Dingell, Ms. Lee of California, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. Crow, Mr. McEachin, Mr. Himes, Mr. Lawson of Florida, Mr. Cárdenas, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Costa, Mr. Morelle, Mr. Aguilar, Mr. Yarmuth, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Levin of Michigan, Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Crist, Mr. Evans, Mr. Stanton, Ms. Velázquez, Mr. Gomez, Mr. Soto, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Correa, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Pascrell, Ms. DelBene, Ms. Matsui, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. Allred, Ms. DeGette, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Neguse, Ms. Brownley, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Kim of New Jersey, Ms. Spanberger, Mr. Swalwell, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Meeks, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Carson, Mr. McNerney, Ms. Sewell, Ms. Omar, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mrs. Trahan, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Keating, Mr. Green of Texas, Mr. Quigley, Mrs. Murphy of Florida, Ms. Castor of Florida, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Ms. Leger Fernandez, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Perlmutter, Ms. Eshoo, Ms. Dean, Mr. Malinowski, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Underwood, Ms. Wild, Mr. Mfume, Mr. Scott of Virginia, and Ms. Slotkin) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
To repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Respect for Marriage Act”.
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.
SEC. 3. Full faith and credit given to marriage equality.
Chapter 115 of title 28, United States Code, as amended by this Act, is further amended by inserting after section 1738B the following:
Ҥ 1738C. Certain acts, records, and proceedings and the effect thereof
“(a) In general.—No person acting under color of State law may deny—
“(1) full faith and credit to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State pertaining to a marriage between 2 individuals, on the basis of the sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin of those individuals; or
“(2) a right or claim arising from such a marriage on the basis that such marriage would not be recognized under the law of that State on the basis of the sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin of those individuals.
“(b) Enforcement by Attorney General.—The Attorney General may bring a civil action in the appropriate United States district court against any person who violates subsection (a) for declaratory and injunctive relief.
“(c) Private right of action.—Any person who is harmed by a violation of subsection (a) may bring a civil action in the appropriate United States district court against the person who violated such subsection for declaratory and injunctive relief.
“(d) State defined.—In this section, the term ‘State’ has the meaning given such term under section 7 of title 1.”.
Section 7 of title 1, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
“(a) For the purposes of any Federal law, rule, or regulation 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.
“(c) For purposes of subsection (a), in determining whether a marriage is valid in a State or the place where entered into, if outside of any State, only the law of the jurisdiction applicable at the time the marriage was entered into may be considered.”.
If any provision of this Act, or any amendment made by this Act, or the application of such provision to any person, entity, government, or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act, or any amendment made thereby, or the application of such provision to all other persons, entities, governments, or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
You can read the bill here.
