Marriage Tolerance Act (First Amendment Defense Act)
Anti-LGBTQ+ Model document
A model bill that first appeared in 2017. 59 bills in 19 states were matched to it. The full story: author, spread, ads, funding and lawsuits.
- Subject
- Religious exemptions
- First appeared
- 2017
- Where its text comes from
- Model document. Its text is the model-bill document itself.
- Years filed
- 2013–2025
- States
- Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, U.S. Congress, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming
Match levels
- Near-verbatim 1 bill
- Derived 9 bills
- Shares provisions 49 bills
- 0 bills
20 matched bills were filed before the template first appeared (2017) and are marked in the lists below. They may be among the template's sources rather than copies of it. How to read these pages
Bills matched to this model bill
Near-verbatim (1)
These bills carry the template's text nearly word for word.
| Bill | State | Introduced | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| GA SB 284 (2016) Filed before the template | Georgia | Failed |
Derived (9)
These bills are built on the template's text.
| Bill | State | Introduced | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| IL SB 64 (2018) | Illinois | Failed | |
| WA HB 1178 (2018) | Washington | Failed | |
| US HB 3133 (2013) Filed before the template | U.S. Congress | Failed | |
| US SB 1808 (2013) Filed before the template | U.S. Congress | Failed | |
| HI HB 2181 (2016) Filed before the template | Hawaii | Failed | |
| HI HB 2532 (2016) Filed before the template | Hawaii | Failed | |
| IL SB 2164 (2016) Filed before the template | Illinois | Failed | |
| MS HB 1523 (2016) Filed before the template | Mississippi | Enacted | |
| WA HB 2752 (2016) Filed before the template | Washington | Failed |
Shares provisions (49)
These bills borrow some of the template's provisions.
| Bill | State | Introduced | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| AR HB 2232 (2017) | Arkansas | Failed | |
| SD SB 149 (2017) | South Dakota | Enacted | |
| TX HB 1923 (2017) | Texas | Failed | |
| TX HB 2779 (2017) | Texas | Failed | |
| TX HB 3859 (2017) | Texas | Enacted | |
| TX SB 893 (2017) | Texas | Failed | |
| WY HB 135 (2017) | Wyoming | Failed | |
| CO HB 1206 (2018) | Colorado | Failed | |
| CO SB 241 (2018) | Colorado | Failed | |
| KY HB 372 (2018) | Kentucky | Failed | |
| MO SB 1022 (2018) | Missouri | Failed | |
| NJ A 2864 (2018) | New Jersey | Failed | |
| OK SB 1250 (2018) | Oklahoma | Failed | |
| US SB 2525 (2018) | U.S. Congress | Failed | |
| CO HB 1140 (2019) | Colorado | Failed | |
| GA SB 221 (2019) | Georgia | Failed | |
| MS HB 1176 (2019) | Mississippi | Failed | |
| TX HB 1035 (2019) | Texas | Failed | |
| TX HB 4497 (2019) | Texas | Failed | |
| CO HB 1033 (2020) | Colorado | Failed | |
| IA HF 2273 (2020) | Iowa | Failed | |
| IA SF 2193 (2020) | Iowa | Failed | |
| IA SF 2194 (2020) | Iowa | Failed | |
| MA H 1392 (2020) | Massachusetts | Failed | |
| NJ A 3782 (2020) | New Jersey | Failed | |
| IA HF 170 (2021) | Iowa | Failed | |
| SC H 3878 (2021) | South Carolina | Failed | |
| MA H 1536 (2022) | Massachusetts | Failed | |
| NJ A 2638 (2022) | New Jersey | Failed | |
| AR HB 1615 (2023) | Arkansas | Enacted | |
| IA SF 212 (2023) | Iowa | Failed | |
| SC H 3611 (2023) | South Carolina | Failed | |
| SC H 3801 (2023) | South Carolina | Failed | |
| AR HB 1669 (2025) | Arkansas | Enacted | |
| SC H 3121 (2025) | South Carolina | Pending | |
| SC S 540 (2025) | South Carolina | Pending | |
| WY HB 149 (2025) | Wyoming | Failed | |
| GA HB 1023 (2014) Filed before the template | Georgia | Failed | |
| GA SB 377 (2014) Filed before the template | Georgia | Failed | |
| NJ A 4733 (2015) Filed before the template | New Jersey | Failed |
Data as of November 3, 2026.