Social Security and Marriage Equality Act

Social Security and Marriage Equality Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act with respect to the determination of a valid marriage to account for marriages in jurisdictions other than a state.

Authorizes the courts of any state to find that an OASDI benefit applicant and an insured individual were validly married in a jurisdiction other than a state at the time the applicant files a benefit application or, if the insured individual is dead, at the time the individual died.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4664 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4664

    To amend the method by which the Social Security Administration 
   determines the validity of marriages under title II of the Social 
                             Security Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 15, 2014

   Mr. Kind (for himself, Ms. Schwartz, and Ms. Esty) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the method by which the Social Security Administration 
   determines the validity of marriages under title II of the Social 
                             Security Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Social Security and Marriage 
Equality Act''.

SEC. 2. DETERMINATION OF VALID MARRIAGE UNDER THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.

    (a) In General.--Section 216(h)(1)(A)(i) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 416(h)(1)(A)(i)) is amended by striking ``is domiciled'' and 
all that follows through ``the District of Columbia,'' and inserting 
``and such applicant were married (or, if such insured individual and 
such applicant were not married in any State but were validly married 
in another jurisdiction, the courts of any State)''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to all final determinations of family status made after June 26, 
2013.
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