By News staff
The House is expected to approve Representative Arthur Handy's bill, H 5015, which would define marriage as the "legally recognized union of two (2) people."
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today on legislation that would allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.
With a unanimous vote Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee did what no previous committee had done, sending a bill to legalize same-sex marriage to the floor of the Rhode Island House of Representatives.
The House is expected to approve Representative Arthur Handy's bill, H 5015, which would define marriage as the "legally recognized union of two (2) people."
With House approval, the same-sex marriage bill would go to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Both sides say the true test of the legislation lies in the Senate, where Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed opposes the legislation.
-- With reports from the Associated Press