The Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Tuesday on legislation that would seek to strengthen a 1996 marriage law in Pennsylvania. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. John Eichelberger, R-Blair County, proposes to add these 20 words to the state constitution: “Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid and recognized as a marriage in this Commonwealth.”
Previous attempts to advance a constitutional amendment on this topic through both chambers of the Legislature have failed.
To amend the constitution, identical bills have to pass the House and Senate in two consecutive legislative sessions before it goes to voters to make the final decision.
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