Reuven Carlyle voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Title: Expanding Domestic Partnership Rights
Signed by Governor Chris Gregoire
Title: Expanding Domestic Partnership Rights
Vote to pass a bill that expands domestic partnership rights, so as to ensure that for all purposes under state law, domestic partners shall be treated equally as married spouses, with the exception of statutes related to marriage contracts.
-Requires the terms "spouse," "marriage," "marital," "husband," "wife," "next of kin," "widow," "widower," and "family," when specified in the state code, be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships and, where necessary to implement this Act, be construed as gender neutral, except for chapter 26.04 which concerns marriage contracts (Secs. 3-199). -Extends various rights, privileges, benefits, and responsibilities to domestic partnerships, including, but not limited to, the following (Secs. 1-199):
Title: Expanding Domestic Partnership Rights
Vote to pass a bill that expands domestic partnership rights, so as to ensure that for all purposes under state law, domestic partners shall be treated equally as married spouses, with the exception of statutes related to marriage contracts.
-Requires the terms "spouse," "marriage," "marital," "husband," "wife," "next of kin," "widow," "widower," and "family," when specified in the state code, be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships and, where necessary to implement this Act, be construed as gender neutral, except for chapter 26.04 which concerns marriage contracts (Secs. 3-199). -Extends various rights, privileges, benefits, and responsibilities to domestic partnerships, including, but not limited to, the following (Secs. 1-199):
Title: Expanding Domestic Partnership Rights
NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED. THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SUBSTITUTE BILL TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE TEXT CAN VARY GREATLY.