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SB89 (registry of mutual‑benefit contracts) fails after debate over scope and relationship to Amendment 3
Summary
After a floor amendment clarifying that mutual‑benefit contracts "do not have the same or substantially equivalent legal effect as a marriage," Senate Bill 89 failed final passage 10–18; sponsors argued the bill grants limited rights while opponents said existing legal instruments already provide protections and worried the bill could be read as equivalent to marriage.
Senate Bill 89, which would have created specified rights tied to filings of mutual‑benefit contracts, failed final passage on the Senate floor after extended debate and a roll‑call vote.
Floor members adopted a Senate floor amendment that inserted language saying "nothing in this chapter... may be construed to give a contract the same or substantially equivalent legal effect as a marriage," and the amendment also limited rights to those…
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