The Defense Of Marriage Act (Doma)

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SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Defense of Marriage Act’’. SEC. 2. POWERS RESERVED TO THE STATES. (a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 115 of title 28, United States Code,is amended by adding after section 1738B the following:‘‘§ 1738C. Certain acts, records, and proceedings and the effect thereof ‘‘No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship...
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Certain acts, records, and proceedings and the effect thereof.’’. SEC. 3. DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE. (a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 1 of title 1, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘§ 7. Definition of ‘marriage’ and ‘spouse’ ‘‘In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word ‘marriage’ means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word ‘spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife...
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