{"id":148527,"date":"2026-03-25T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148527\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:24:09","slug":"pennsylvania-house-passes-bill-to-codify-marriage-equality-into-state-law-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148527\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania House passes bill to codify marriage equality into state law | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211; A bill to codify marriage equality into law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has cleared an important hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>Today, The Pennsylvania House passed House Bill 1800 with a vote of 127 &#8211; 72.<\/p>\n<p>State Rep. Michael Schlossberg, who represents Lehigh County, is a co-sponsor of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would essentially repeal outdated language in Pennsylvania law that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of the bill say it would align state statute with Constitutional protections for marriage equality established by the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211; A bill to codify marriage equality into law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has cleared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2479,37,67771,40109,28,9116,128,130,129,7738],"class_list":["post-148527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-commonwealth","tag-harrisburg","tag-house-bill-1800","tag-marriage-equality","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-house","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-u-s-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}