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Senate restores and expands ability for legislators to solemnize marriages; House bill passes on third reading
Utah Senate · February 18, 2021
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Summary
House Bill 238, authorizing broader categories of people (including legislators) to solemnize marriages in some circumstances, passed the Senate on third reading 23–3. Sponsors cited pandemic-related closures of county clerks as motivation.
Senator McKay presented House Bill 238 as a modest expansion of who is authorized to solemnize marriages, noting pandemic-era county clerk closures that left some couples without a readily available designee. "There are other states that allow this, that…
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