The bill was thought to be dead on Wednesday night when the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected it, but the bill was resurrected by Trump on the Senate floor Thursday and moved to Friday’s final vote.Ģ Missing Florida Boaters Found Dead in Lake Near Winter HavenĪccording to the nonprofit group Unchained At Last, which seeks to end forced and child marriage, seven states have set the minimum age for marriage at 18, all since 2018. Those ages 16 and 17 would have to obtain parental consent and they couldn't marry someone more than four years older than them.Įxisting legal marriages, including those done in other states, would be unaffected. The Senate bill would remove the possibility that anyone younger than 16 could marry. It allows anyone younger than that to get married with a judge’s waiver. Charles Trump said.Ĭurrently, children can marry as young as 16 in West Virginia with parental consent. “I want us to pass something because our current situation is intolerable,” Morgan County Republican Sen. It now goes to the House of Delegates, which previously passed its own version. The Senate passed the bill on a 31-1 vote. A child marriage bill was passed by the West Virginia Senate on Friday night after it was changed to prohibit anyone younger than 16 from getting married and to ban age gaps of more than four years for 16- and 17-year-olds.
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