SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1819

90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES SCOTT, HARTZLER (124), PHILLIPS, FROELKER,

GROSS (Co-sponsors), CIERPIOT, LEVIN, HEGEMAN, REINHART, PRYOR, SUMMERS, GASKILL,

LINTON, MYERS, CHRISMER, BARTLE, ENZ, BERKSTRESSER, HENDRICKSON, GIBBONS,

HANAWAY, BARTELSMEYER, BARNETT, BENNETT, EVANS AND HOLAND.

Read 1st time January 27, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 451.022, RSMo Supp. 1999, relating to marriage, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.




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

Section A. Section 451.022, RSMo Supp. 1999, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 451.022, to read as follows:

[451.022. 1. It is the public policy of this state to recognize marriage only between a man and a woman.

2. Any purported marriage not between a man and a woman is invalid.

3. No recorder shall issue a marriage license, except to a man and a woman.]

451.022. 1. It is the public policy of this state to recognize marriage only between a man and a woman.

2. Any purported marriage not between a man and a woman is invalid.

3. No recorder shall issue a marriage license, except to a man and a woman.



Missouri House of Representatives