S.Amdt. 6500

SA 6500. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 6487 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for Ms. Baldwin (for
herself, Ms. Collins, Mr. Portman, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Tillis, and Ms.
Lummis)) to the bill H.R. 8404, to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act
and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Strike section 6(b) and insert the following:
(b) No Recognition or Full Faith and Credit for Polygamous
Marriages.--
(1) In general.--Nothing in this Act, or any amendment made
by this Act, shall be construed--
(A) to require or authorize Federal recognition of a
polygamous marriage;
(B) to give full faith and credit to an act, record, or
proceeding pertaining to a polygamous marriage; or
(C) to require or authorize recognition of a right or claim
arising from a polygamous marriage.
(2) Covered marriage.--In this subsection, the term
``polygamous marriage'' means a marriage that is not a
union--
(A) between no more than 2 or less than 2 individuals; and
(B) in which each of those individuals is in only 1
marriage.
(c) No Full Faith and Credit for Marriages in Which a Party
Is Below a Certain Age Limit.--
(1) In general.--Nothing in this Act, or any amendment made
by this Act, shall be construed--
(A) to give full faith and credit in a second State to an
act, record, or proceeding pertaining to a marriage in a
first State if either party, on the date of the marriage, was
under the age of consent for marriage in the second State; or
(B) to require or authorize recognition in a second State
of a right or claim arising from a marriage in a first State
if either party, on the date of the marriage, was under that
age.
(2) State determination.--Nothing in this Act, or any
amendment made by this Act, shall prohibit a State from
determining the age of consent for marriage in that State.
(d) No Full Faith and Credit for Marriages in Which the
Parties Are Too Closely Related.--
(1) In general.--Nothing in this Act, or any amendment made
by this Act, shall be construed--
(A) to give full faith and credit in a second State to an
act, record, or proceeding pertaining to a marriage in a
first State in which the parties have a degree of
consanguinity for which marriage is forbidden in the second
State; or
(B) to require or authorize recognition in a second State
of a right or claim arising from a marriage in a first State
in which the parties have that degree of consanguinity.
(2) State determination.--Nothing in this Act, or any
amendment made by this Act, shall prohibit a State from
determining the degree of consanguinity for marriage in that
State.
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