FINAL BILL REPORT
HB 1657
C 86 L 23
Synopsis as Enacted
Brief Description: Authorizing justices, judges, and judicial officers of federal courts to solemnize marriages.
Sponsors: Representatives Street, Cheney, Simmons, Taylor, Ormsby and Hutchins.
House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary
Senate Committee on Law & Justice
Background:

Washington authorizes several officers and persons, active or retired, to solemnize marriages, including Washington court justices, judges, and commissioners; judges of tribal courts from a federally recognized tribe; and any regularly licensed or ordained minister or any priest, imam, rabbi, or similar official of any religious organization.

Summary:

Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and all judges and judicial officers of the federal courts, are authorized to solemnize marriages.

Votes on Final Passage:
House 96 0
Senate 48 0
Effective:

July 23, 2023