Compare HI HB 165 (2011) and HI HB 165 (2012)

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES H.B. NO. 165 TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011 STATE OF HAWAII A BILL FOR AN ACT proposing an amendment to the Hawaii constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to propose an amendment to article I, section 23, of the Hawaii Constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman as husband and wife. The legislature finds that the unique social institution of marriage involving the legal relationship of matrimony between a man and a woman is a protected relationship of fundamental and unequaled importance to the State, the nation, and society. Dur…HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES H.B. NO. 165 TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011 STATE OF HAWAII A BILL FOR AN ACT proposing an amendment to the Hawaii constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to propose an amendment to article I, section 23, of the Hawaii Constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman as husband and wife. The legislature finds that the unique social institution of marriage involving the legal relationship of matrimony between a man and a woman is a protected relationship of fundamental and unequaled importance to the State, the nation, and society. Dur…