SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

NOS. 39, 38, 42 & 47

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

                  Reported from the Committee on Children and Families, February 19, 2004, with recommendation that the House Committee Substitute for House Joint Resolution Nos. 39, 38, 42 & 47 Do Pass.

                                                                                                                                                                         STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

2555L.03C

AN ACT

Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri an amendment to the Constitution of Missouri relating to the prohibition of same-sex marriage.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 2004, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or rejection, the following amendment to the Constitution of the state of Missouri:

            Section A. The Constitution of Missouri is amended by adding thereto one new article, to be known as article XIV, to read as follows:

Article XIV

Marriage

            Section 1. Marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman, and no license to marry shall issue except to a man and a woman. Marriage between persons of the same sex, and full faith and credit of such marital status entered into in another state, shall not be recognized as marriage.