Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act by repealing all of the following provisions: (i) no marriage shall be contracted in this State by a party residing and intending to continue to reside in another state or jurisdiction if the marriage would be void if contracted in the other state or jurisdiction, and every marriage celebrated in this State in violation of that provision is null and void; (ii) before issuing a license to marry a person who resides and intends to continue to reside in another state, the officer having authority to issue the license shall satisfy himself by requiring affidavits or otherwise that the person is not prohibited from intermarrying by the laws of the jurisdiction where the person resides; and (iii) an official issuing a marriage license with knowledge that the parties are prohibited from marrying and a person authorized to solemnize marriages who knowingly solemnizes such a marriage are guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0021 [HB1591 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

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Representative Kelly Cassidy [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-014	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Lamont Robinson [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-005	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Robyn Gabel [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-018	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Dagmara Avelar [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-085	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-017	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Norma Hernandez [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-077	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Lilian Jimenez [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-004	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Lindsey LaPointe [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-019	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Hoan Huynh [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-013	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Michelle Mussman [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-056	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Mary Canty [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-054	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kevin Olickal [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-016	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Terra Costa Howard [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-042	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Barbara Hernandez [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-050	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Laura Faver Dias [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-062	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Joyce Mason [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-061	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Maura Hirschauer [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-049	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Janet Yang Rohr [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-041	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Eva Dina Delgado [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-003	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Ann Williams [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-011	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Diane Blair-Sherlock [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-046	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Daniel Didech [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-059	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Abdelnasser Rashid [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-021	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Carol Ammons [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-103	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Margaret Croke [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-012	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Mike Simmons [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-007	N/A	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Robert Martwick [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-010	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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