The Alaska Capitol is proven on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photograph/Becky Bohrer)
JUNEAU, ALASKA --
A invoice within the Alaska Home would repeal a provision of regulation that permits a court docket to grant permission for somebody as younger as 14 to marry.
Home members on Wednesday adopted the repeal as an modification to a invoice coping with witness necessities for marriage. A vote on the amended invoice was pending; the Home subsequent meets Friday. The measure, if it passes, would nonetheless must go to the Senate.
The invoice would depart in place one other provision of regulation that permits for 16 and 17 12 months olds to marry with parental consent.
Republican Rep. Sara Rasmussen of Anchorage provided the modification. She mentioned she thought-about it "most likely one of the crucial vital issues that we are able to do as a legislative physique this session."
"I take into consideration 14-year-olds. They're freshmen in highschool. They're kids," she mentioned throughout flooring debate, including later: "We've got the chance right here at present to make this transformation to guard kids in Alaska from one thing that in at present's time isn't in one of the best curiosity of the kid."
The proposal would repeal a bit of regulation that spells out a course of below which a court docket can grant permission for somebody as younger as 14 years previous to marry.
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