Bill Summary – FastDemocracy

FIRST REGULAR SESSION
                          HOUSE BILL NO. 1459
                                 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY


                                INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS.

    3047H.01I                                                                    JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk


                                                 AN ACT
                     To repeal section 451.022, RSMo, relating to same sex marriages.


    Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

                Section A. Section 451.022, RSMo, is repealed, to read as follows:
                       [451.022. 1. It is the public policy of this state to recognize marriage
2               only between a man and a woman.
3                      2. Any purported marriage not between a man and a woman is invalid.
4                      3. No recorder shall issue a marriage license, except to a man and a
5               woman.
6                      4. A marriage between persons of the same sex will not be recognized
7               for any purpose in this state even when valid where contracted.]

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    EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is
    intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

Statutes affected: 
Introduced (3047H.01): 451.022