US Congress Senate Bill 2305 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: Introduced on May 8 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-05-08 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

Social Security and Marriage Equality Act

Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Mark Udall [D-CO]
Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-05-08	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB4664 (Same As) 2014-05-15 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
HB5182 (Related) 2014-07-23 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2305/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s2305/BILLS-113s2305is.pdf