State Information

Individual State Information

     

Alabama	Indiana	Nebraska*	South Carolina
Alaska*	Iowa	Nevada*	South Dakota
Arizona	Kansas*	New Hampshire	Tennessee
Arkansas*	Kentucky*	New Jersey	Texas
California	Louisiana*	New Mexico	Utah*
Colorado	Maine	New York	Vermont
Connecticut	Maryland	North Carolina	Virginia
Delaware	Massachusetts	North Dakota*	Washington
Florida	Michigan*	Ohio*	West Virginia
Georgia*	Minnesota	Oklahoma*	Wisconsin
Hawaii*	Mississippi*	Oregon*	Wyoming
Idaho	Missouri*	Pennsylvania
Illinois	Montana*	Rhode Island

* Indicates a state constitutional amendment has been passed defining marriage between one man and one woman.

State and Federal Overviews

State Amendment Language
State Defense of Marriage Acts (DOMAs)
2004 State Marriage Amendment Initiatives
Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA)

Link

The Heritage Foundation has an excellent resource page on state defense of marriage laws at:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Family/Marriage50States.cfm

Marriage Amendment Documents