HR 1116 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Respect for Marriage Act

Introduced Mar 16, 2011 Originated House Sponsor Jerrold Nadler D-NY

Latest action · Jun 1, 2011 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedMar 16, 2011
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Respect for Marriage Act - 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).

Cosponsors 160

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 16, 2011 to Dec 27, 2012; 108 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NJ	Albio Sires	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Anthony D. Weiner	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MA	Barney Frank	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MN	Betty McCollum	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Bob Filner	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Brad Sherman	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Brian Higgins	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-PA	Chaka Fattah	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-ME	Chellie Pingree	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CT	Christopher Murphy	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-IL	Danny K. Davis	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NC	David E. Price	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-OR	David Wu	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CO	Diana DeGette	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-AZ	Ed Pastor	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Edolphus Towns	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MA	Edward J. Markey	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MI	Gary C. Peters	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	George Miller	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-WI	Gwen Moore	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Howard L. Berman	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Jackie Speier	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CT	James A. Himes	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-VA	James P. Moran	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CO	Jared Polis	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-WA	Jim McDermott	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CT	Joe Courtney	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CT	John B. Larson	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MA	John F. Tierney	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	John Garamendi	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-GA	John Lewis	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MA	John W. Olver	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Joseph Crowley	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Judy Chu	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Karen Bass	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-FL	Kathy Castor	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MN	Keith Ellison	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Lois Capps	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NM	Martin Heinrich	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-HI	Mazie K. Hirono	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Michael M. Honda	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-IL	Mike Quigley	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Nancy Pelosi	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MA	Niki Tsongas	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Paul Tonko	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-VT	Peter Welch	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-PA	Robert A. Brady	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NJ	Rush Holt	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Sam Farr	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NV	Shelley Berkley	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MD	Steny H. Hoyer	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Steve Israel	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Susan A. Davis	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-MA	William R. Keating	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren	Original	Mar 16, 2011
D-IA	David Loebsack		Apr 1, 2011
D-OH	Betty Sutton		Apr 6, 2011
D-IA	Bruce L. Braley		May 5, 2011
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		Jun 14, 2011
D-CA	Xavier Becerra		Jun 14, 2011
D-WA	Jay Inslee		Jun 15, 2011
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jun 15, 2011
D-NY	Kathleen C. Hochul		Jul 8, 2011
D-NY	William L. Owens		Jul 8, 2011
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Jul 13, 2011
D-HI	Colleen Hanabusa		Jul 19, 2011
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Jul 22, 2011
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Sep 13, 2011
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Sep 13, 2011
D-WA	Adam Smith		Sep 15, 2011
D-NC	Brad Miller		Sep 15, 2011
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		Sep 23, 2011
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Oct 3, 2011
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Oct 3, 2011
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Oct 6, 2011
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Nov 1, 2011
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Nov 1, 2011
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz		Nov 4, 2011
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Nov 4, 2011
D-CA	Janice Hahn		Dec 2, 2011
D-CA	Joe Baca		Dec 16, 2011
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Dec 20, 2011
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Feb 3, 2012
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez		Feb 3, 2012
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Mar 8, 2012
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Mar 9, 2012
D-MI	Hansen Clarke		Mar 13, 2012
D-IN	André Carson		Apr 19, 2012
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Apr 19, 2012
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen		May 10, 2012
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks		May 10, 2012
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Jun 1, 2012
D-MI	John D. Dingell		Jun 1, 2012
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Jun 8, 2012
D-MO	Russ Carnahan		Jun 8, 2012
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Jun 19, 2012
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Jun 19, 2012
D-TX	Al Green		Jun 21, 2012
D-AZ	Ron Barber		Jul 18, 2012
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		Jul 18, 2012
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Jul 26, 2012
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Sep 14, 2012
D-NC	Melvin L. Watt		Sep 14, 2012
D-SC	James E. Clyburn		Sep 21, 2012
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Nov 16, 2012
R-NH	Charles F. Bass		Dec 27, 2012
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna		Dec 27, 2012

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Judiciary Committee	Referred Mar 16, 2011
	Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee	Referred Jun 1, 2011

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jun 1, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
Mar 16, 2011Introduced in House
Mar 16, 2011Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
House	Debate and remarks H3809	Earl Blumenauer D-OR	Jun 20, 2012

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Clause 18 of Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution, and Section 5 of Amendment XIV to the Constitution.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H1907.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 598	Respect for Marriage Act of 2011	Related bill	Nov 10, 2011

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage.
Short Titles as Introduced: Respect for Marriage Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Law.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 16, 2011Introduced in House

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