US Congress Senate Bill 598 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-1)
Status: Introduced on March 16 2011 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2011-11-10 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 228.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Respect for Marriage Act of 2011 - Amends the Defense of Marriage Act to repeal a provision that prohibited a state, territory, possession, or Indian tribe from being required to recognize any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other state, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a same sex marriage. Amends the federal rules of construction added by such Act concerning the definitions of "marriage" and "spouse" to provide that, for purposes of any federal law 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. Removes the definition of "spouse" (currently, a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife).

Respect for Marriage Act of 2011

Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Daniel Akaka [D-HI]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D-NM]
Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]
Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Tom Harkin [D-IA]	Sen. Daniel Inouye [D-HI]	Sen. John Kerry [D-MA]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Herb Kohl [D-WI]	Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]
Sen. Carl Levin [D-MI]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D-MD]
Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Mark Udall [D-CO]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]
Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-11-10	Senate	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 228.
2011-11-10	Senate	Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
2011-11-10	Senate	Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
2011-07-20	Senate	Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-120.
2011-03-16	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
2011-03-16	Senate	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1753-1754)

HB1116 (Related) 2011-06-01 - Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/598/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s598/BILLS-112s598is.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s598/BILLS-112s598rs.pdf