SB 2 - Authorizes Officials to Not Perform Certain Marriage Duties - North Carolina Key Vote
Timeline
- House Veto Override Passed
- June 11, 2015
- Senate Veto Override Passed
- June 1, 2015
- Executive Vetoed
- May 29, 2015
- House Bill Passed
- May 28, 2015
- Senate Bill Passed
- Feb. 25, 2015
- Introduced
- Feb. 2, 2015
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Stage Details
Title: Authorizes Officials to Not Perform Certain Marriage Duties
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to override a veto of a bill that authorizes certain officials to recuse themselves from performing certain marriage duties based on a "sincerely held" religious objection.
Highlights:
- Authorizes a magistrate, assistant, or deputy register of deeds to recuse him or herself from performing a marriage or issuing a marriage license based on a “sincerely held” religious objection (Sec. 1).
- Prohibits a recusing magistrate, assistant, or deputy register from performing a marriage or issuing a marriage license until the recusal has been rescinded in writing (Sec. 1).
- Requires a recusal to be in effect for at least 6 months (Sec. 1).
- Requires the register of deeds to ensure that all eligible applicants for a marriage license are issued a license (Sec. 1).
- Requires the chief district court judge to notify the Administrative Office of the Courts if all magistrates in a jurisdiction have recused, at which time the Administrative Office of the Courts is required to ensure that a magistrate is available to perform marriages in the jurisdiction (Sec. 1).
- Requires a district court judge to be deemed magistrate for the purposes of performing marriages until the Administrative Office of the Courts designates a magistrate to perform marriages in the jurisdiction (Sec. 1).
- Requires the chief district court judge to ensure a magistrate is available to perform marriages for at least 10 hours a week over the course of at least 3 business days (Sec. 4).
Title: Authorizes Officials to Not Perform Certain Marriage Duties
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to override a veto of a bill that authorizes certain officials to recuse themselves from performing certain marriage duties based on a "sincerely held" religious objection.
Highlights:
- Authorizes a magistrate, assistant, or deputy register of deeds to recuse him or herself from performing a marriage or issuing a marriage license based on a “sincerely held” religious objection (Sec. 1).
- Prohibits a recusing magistrate, assistant, or deputy register from performing a marriage or issuing a marriage license until the recusal has been rescinded in writing (Sec. 1).
- Requires a recusal to be in effect for at least 6 months (Sec. 1).
- Requires the register of deeds to ensure that all eligible applicants for a marriage license are issued a license (Sec. 1).
- Requires the chief district court judge to notify the Administrative Office of the Courts if all magistrates in a jurisdiction have recused, at which time the Administrative Office of the Courts is required to ensure that a magistrate is available to perform marriages in the jurisdiction (Sec. 1).
- Requires a district court judge to be deemed magistrate for the purposes of performing marriages until the Administrative Office of the Courts designates a magistrate to perform marriages in the jurisdiction (Sec. 1).
- Requires the chief district court judge to ensure a magistrate is available to perform marriages for at least 10 hours a week over the course of at least 3 business days (Sec. 4).
Title: Authorizes Officials to Not Perform Certain Marriage Duties
Title: Authorizes Officials to Not Perform Certain Marriage Duties
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that authorizes certain officials to recuse themselves from performing certain marriage duties based on a "sincerely held" religious objection.
Highlights:
- Authorizes a magistrate, assistant, or deputy register of deeds to recuse him or herself from performing a marriage or issuing a marriage license based on a “sincerely held” religious objection (Sec. 1).
- Prohibits a recusing magistrate, assistant, or deputy register from performing a marriage or issuing a marriage license until the recusal has been rescinded in writing (Sec. 1).
- Requires a recusal to be in effect for at least 6 months (Sec. 1).
- Requires the register of deeds to ensure that all eligible applicants for a marriage license are issued a license (Sec. 1).
- Requires the chief district court judge to notify the Administrative Office of the Courts if all magistrates in a jurisdiction have recused, at which time the Administrative Office of the Courts is required to ensure that a magistrate is available to perform marriages in the jurisdiction (Sec. 1).
- Requires a district court judge to be deemed magistrate for the purposes of performing marriages until the Administrative Office of the Courts designates a magistrate to perform marriages in the jurisdiction (Sec. 1).
- Requires the chief district court judge to ensure a magistrate is available to perform marriages for at least 10 hours a week over the course of at least 3 business days (Sec. 4).
Title: Authorizes Officials to Not Perform Certain Marriage Duties
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that authorizes certain officials to recuse themselves from performing certain marriage duties based on a "sincerely held" religious objection.
Highlights:
- Authorizes a magistrate, assistant, or deputy register of deeds to recuse him or herself from performing a marriage or issuing a marriage license based on a “sincerely held” religious objection (Sec. 1).
- Prohibits a recusing magistrate, assistant, or deputy register from performing a marriage or issuing a marriage license until the recusal has been rescinded in writing (Sec. 1).
- Requires a recusal to be in effect for at least 6 months (Sec. 1).
- Requires the register of deeds to ensure that all eligible applicants for a marriage license are issued a license (Sec. 1).
- Requires the chief district court judge to notify the Administrative Office of the Courts if all magistrates in a jurisdiction have recused, at which time the Administrative Office of the Courts is required to ensure that a magistrate is available to perform marriages in the jurisdiction (Sec. 1).
- Requires a district court judge to be deemed magistrate for the purposes of performing marriages until the Administrative Office of the Courts designates a magistrate to perform marriages in the jurisdiction (Sec. 1).
- Requires the chief district court judge to ensure a magistrate is available to perform marriages for at least 10 hours a week over the course of at least 3 business days (Sec. 4).
More Info About this Vote
NOTE: THIS IS A SECOND READING VOTE TO END DEBATE ON THE BILL AND ADVANCE IT TO THE THIRD READING IN WHICH AN UP-OR-DOWN VOTE FOR PASSAGE WILL OCCUR ONLY IF VOTES CHANGE OR THE THIRD READING OCCURS ON A DIFFERENT LEGISLATIVE DAY.
Title: Authorizes Officials to Not Perform Certain Marriage Duties
- John Chadwick 'Chad' Barefoot (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Andrew Coley Brock (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- William 'Bill' Cook (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- David Lamar Curtis (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Warren Todd Daniel (NC - R)
- James Wayland 'Jim' Davis (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Kathryn Gray 'Kathy' Harrington (NC - R)
- Ralph Edward Hise Jr. (NC - R)
- Joyce Riley Krawiec (NC - R)
- Eldon Sharpe 'Buck' Newton III (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Louis Miliford Pate Jr. (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Ronald Joseph Rabin (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Shirley Blackburn Randleman (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Norman Wesley Sanderson Jr. (NC - R)
- Daniel Frederick Soucek (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Wyatt Thomas 'Tommy' Tucker Sr. (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Trudy Lynn Wade (NC - R) (Out Of Office)