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In November 2009, Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a candidate for Texas Attorney General, claimed that the amendment, because it was poorly drafted, outlawed all marriage in Texas. [22] The Williams Institute projected that legalizing same-sex marriage in Texas would add $182.5 million to the state's economy in the first three years. [23]
During the 2013 legislative session, Representative Lon Burnam introduced legislation to repeal the statute; [5] however, the bill died in the State Affairs Committee of the Texas House of Representatives. [6]
The statute was enacted in 2003, it made void in Texas any same-sex marriage or civil union. [1] This statute also prohibits the state or any agency or political subdivision of the state from giving effect to same-sex marriages or civil unions performed in other jurisdictions. [2] The act was signed by Governor Rick Perry in 2003. [3]
In 1973, the Texas Family Code was amended by House Bill 103 to explicitly state that a marriage license may only be issued to a man and a woman. HB 103 became effective on January 1, 1974. [23] In 1997, Texas banned the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The Respect for Marriage Act passed 61-36 and will next go to the House, which has already passed it once but needs to do so again to approve changes made in the Senate, and then to President ...
A Texas doctor and anti-trans Republican activist was removed from a state Senate hearing after repeatedly falsely accusing trans people and their healthcare providers of being paedophiles, but it ...
In the end, they “defied political gravity,” as Baldwin puts it, and passed the Respect for Marriage Act through the Senate. When the final vote was called, they had twelve Republican ...
On January 24, 2005, Senator Allard introduced the Marriage Protection Amendment, which was the 2004 version of the Federal Marriage Amendment verbatim, with 21 Republican co-sponsors. In 2006, Rep. Musgrave introduced the Marriage Protection Amendment in the House.