{"id":197457,"date":"2026-03-19T06:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197457\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T06:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:28:12","slug":"florida-bill-aiming-to-ban-marrying-1st-cousins-fails-to-pass-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197457\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida bill aiming to ban marrying 1st cousins fails to pass: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brief<\/p>\n

A Florida bill that sought to ban marriage between first cousins failed to pass in the state Senate.<\/p>\n

The proposal would have prohibited individuals from marrying anyone descended from their grandparents, effectively banning first-cousin marriages.<\/p>\n

The issue may return for another vote, as first-cousin marriage remains legal in several states while banned in most others.<\/p>\n

A Florida bill aiming to ban marrying first cousins has failed to pass in the state\u2019s senate,\u00a0according to multiple reports.<\/a><\/p>\n

The\u00a0bill proposed<\/a> that a man “may not marry any woman who is a lineal 619 descendent of his grandparent. A woman may not marry any man who is a lineal descendent of her grandparent.”<\/p>\n

What they’re saying<\/p>\n

Rep. Dean Black told\u00a0Action News Jax\u00a0<\/a>that he expected another vote on the same issue in the future.<\/p>\n

“There are plenty of people here, and there are plenty of people you can find to be your lifelong partner without looking to your first cousin,” Black said. “So, yes. I think it should come back whether it\u2019s a standalone bill, whether it\u2019s tagged onto some other bill. Not really sure. We\u2019ll have to see.”<\/p>\n

Which states allow cousin marriage?<\/p>\n

Dig deeper<\/p>\n

In the U.S., there are several states that allow marrying first cousins without restrictions, while others allow it under certain conditions, according to Newsweek.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Those states include:<\/p>\n

Thirty-two states have blanket bans on cousin marriages.<\/p>\n

The Source<\/p>\n

Information for this article was taken from reporting by The Hill, Action Jax News, Newsweek, Deseret News and Florida House Bill 733. This story was reported from San Jose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A Florida bill that sought to ban marriage between first cousins failed to pass in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6477,91617,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-197457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-dean-black","tag-first-cousin-marriage","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}