Supporting All Veteran Families Act

Supporting All Veteran Families Act

This bill updates terminology related to marriage under laws administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs, including by removing the specification that a spouse must be a person of the opposite sex.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6849 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6849

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to update certain terminology 
  related to marriage under the laws administered by the Secretary of 
                           Veterans Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 25, 2022

  Ms. Newman (for herself, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Kahele) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to update certain terminology 
  related to marriage under the laws administered by the Secretary of 
                           Veterans Affairs.

    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 ``Supporting All Veteran Families 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MARRIAGE TERMINOLOGY.

    (a) Definitions.--Section 101 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) by striking ``of the opposite sex''; and
                    (B) by striking ``or (in cases not involving 
                remarriage) has not since the death of the veteran, and 
                after September 19, 1962, lived with another person and 
                held himself or herself out openly to the public to be 
                the spouse of such other person''; and
            (2) in paragraph (31), by striking ``of the opposite sex''.
    (b) Special Provisions Relating to Marriages.--Section 103 of title 
38, United States Code, is amended by striking ``and holding himself or 
herself out openly to the public as that person's spouse''.
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