[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 37 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 37

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 4, 2009

    Mr. Daniel E. Lungren of California (for himself, Mr. Franks of 
Arizona, Mr. Bartlett, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Pence, Mr. Westmoreland, Mr. 
 Jordan of Ohio, Mr. Gingrey of Georgia, Mr. Pitts, Mr. Marchant, Mr. 
Mica, Mr. Smith of Texas, Mr. Rogers of Kentucky, Mr. Akin, Mr. Rogers 
of Alabama, Mr. Bachus, Mr. McCotter, Mr. Broun of Georgia, Mr. Burton 
 of Indiana, Mr. Chaffetz, Mr. Shuster, Mr. Radanovich, Mr. Hoekstra, 
  Mr. Wittman, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Harper, Mr. Luetkemeyer, Mr. Moran of 
Kansas, Mr. Coffman of Colorado, Mr. Souder, Mr. Miller of Florida, Mr. 
    Bilirakis, Mr. Neugebauer, Mr. Cantor, and Mr. Brady of Texas) 
 introduced the following joint 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   (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), 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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