Key Votes
S 2220 - Constitutional Amendment Defining Marriage - Key Vote
Massachusetts Key Votes
Scott Brown voted Yea (Passage) on this legislation.
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Stages
Family
Issues
Note
NOTE: AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRES MAJORITY APPROVAL BY ALL LEGISLATORS IN TWO CONSECUTIVE SESSIONS IF PROPOSED BY A LEGISLATOR OR BY ONE-FOURTH OF ALL LEGISLATORS IN TWO CONSECUTIVE SESSIONS IF PROPOSED BY VOTER PETITION. IT MUST THEN BE APPROVED BY THE MAJORITY OF CITIZENS VOTING ON THE AMENDMENT IN THE NEXT ELECTION. AT LEAST THIRTY PERCENT OF BALLOTS CAST MUST CONTAIN A VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT FOR THE AMENDMENT TO BECOME ENACTED.
Stage Details
Legislation - Bill Failed (House) (40-117) - June 14, 2007 (Key vote)
Title: Constitutional Amendment Defining Marriage
Vote to pass an initiative proposing a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman.
NOTE: THIS LEGISLATION WAS VOTED ON IN A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, MEANING THAT BOTH CHAMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE MET IN A JOINT SESSION AND VOTED ON THE LEGISLATION IN UNISON. THE LEGISLATION DOES NOT PASS OR FAIL EACH CHAMBER, BUT INSTEAD PASSES OR FAILS THE LEGISLATURE AS A WHOLE.
Legislation - Bill Failed (Senate) (5-34) - June 14, 2007 (Key vote)
Title: Constitutional Amendment Defining Marriage
Vote to pass an initiative proposing a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman.
NOTE: THIS LEGISLATION WAS VOTED ON IN A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, MEANING THAT BOTH CHAMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE MET IN A JOINT SESSION AND VOTED ON THE LEGISLATION IN UNISON. THE LEGISLATION DOES NOT PASS OR FAIL EACH CHAMBER, BUT INSTEAD PASSES OR FAILS THE LEGISLATURE AS A WHOLE.
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Sept. 29, 2005
Title: Constitutional Amendment Defining Marriage
NOTE: AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRES MAJORITY APPROVAL BY ALL LEGISLATORS IN TWO CONSECUTIVE SESSIONS IF PROPOSED BY A LEGISLATOR OR BY ONE-FOURTH OF ALL LEGISLATORS IN TWO CONSECUTIVE SESSIONS IF PROPOSED BY VOTER PETITION. IT MUST THEN BE APPROVED BY THE MAJORITY OF CITIZENS VOTING ON THE AMENDMENT IN THE NEXT ELECTION. AT LEAST THIRTY PERCENT OF BALLOTS CAST MUST CONTAIN A VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT FOR THE AMENDMENT TO BECOME ENACTED.
