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1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 595.1B EXCLUSIVITY.
1 2 The rights, benefits, protections, responsibilities, and
1 3 other incidents of the legal status of marriage granted by
1 4 law, whether derived from statute, administrative or court
1 5 rule, city or county ordinance, policy, bylaw, common law, or
1 6 any other source of civil law, shall not be conferred upon,
1 7 contracted for, or otherwise provided to unmarried couples or
1 8 groups of persons.
1 9 Sec. 2. Section 595.20, Code 2003, is amended to read as
1 10 follows:
1 11 595.20 FOREIGN MARRIAGES – OTHER LEGAL AGREEMENTS –
1 12 VALIDITY.
1 13 1. A marriage which is solemnized in any other state,
1 14 territory, country, or any foreign jurisdiction which is valid
1 15 in that state, territory, country, or other foreign
1 16 jurisdiction, is valid in this state if the parties meet the
1 17 requirements for validity pursuant to section 595.2,
1 18 subsection 1, and if the marriage would not otherwise be
1 19 declared void.
1 20 2. A civil contract or other legal arrangement which is
1 21 valid in any other state, territory, country, or any foreign
1 22 jurisdiction and which does not confer the legal status of
1 23 marriage upon an unmarried couple or group of persons but does
1 24 confer upon an unmarried couple or group of persons the
1 25 rights, benefits, protections, responsibilities, or other
1 26 incidents of marriage granted by law, whether derived from
1 27 statute, administrative or court rule, city or county
1 28 ordinance, policy, bylaw, common law, or other source of civil
1 29 law, is not valid in this state.
1 30 Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE AND RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY.
1 31 This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect
1 32 upon enactment and is retroactively applicable to January 1,
1 33 1999.
1 34 EXPLANATION
1 35 This bill provides that the rights, benefits, protections,
2 1 responsibilities, and other incidents of the legal status of
2 2 marriage granted by law, derived from various sources, are not
2 3 to be conferred upon, contracted for, or otherwise provided to
2 4 unmarried couples or groups of persons. Additionally, the
2 5 bill provides that a civil contract or other legal arrangement
2 6 which is valid in any other state, territory, country, or any
2 7 foreign jurisdiction and which does not confer the legal
2 8 status of marriage upon an unmarried couple or group of
2 9 persons but does confer upon them the rights, benefits,
2 10 protections, responsibilities, or other incidents of marriage
2 11 granted by law, derived from a number of sources, is not valid
2 12 in this state.
2 13 The bill takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively
2 14 applicable to January 1, 1999.
2 15 LSB 6131HH 80
2 16 pf/sh/8.2
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