H.R. 249 · 108th Congress
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide an exception to the nine-month duration of marriage requirement for widows and widowers in cases in which the marriage was postponed by legal impediments to the marriage caused by State restrictions on divorce from a prior spouse institutionalized due to mental incompetence or similar incapacity.
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Tom Allen
- Introduced
- 2003-01-08
- Latest action
- 2003-01-21 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
Action history
- 2003-01-21Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
- 2003-01-08Introduced in House
- 2003-01-08Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.