[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 22 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 22

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
                         relating to marriage.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2007

  Mr. Daniel E. Lungren of California (for himself, Mr. Boustany, Mr. 
  Cannon, Mrs. Emerson, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr. Lewis of Kentucky, Mr. 
Norwood, Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. Calvert, 
 Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Hunter, Mr. McCotter, Mr. Radanovich, and 
Mr. Bachus) introduced the following resolution; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
                         relating to marriage.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled,
  That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents 
and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the 
legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years 
after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article --

    ``Section 1.  Marriage in the United States shall consist only of a 
legal union of one man and one woman.
    ``Section 2.  No court of the United States or of any State shall 
have jurisdiction to determine whether this Constitution or the 
constitution of any State requires that the legal incidents of marriage 
be conferred upon any union other than a legal union between one man 
and one woman.
    ``Section 3.  No State shall be required to give effect to any 
public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State 
concerning a union between persons of the same sex that is treated as a 
marriage, or as having the legal incidents of marriage, under the laws 
of such other State.''.
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