Support replacing gendered family-law references such as 'wives' and 'husbands' with 'spouses' in federal law.

Mary Gay Scanlon · Pennsylvania · Democratic

policy impact 2.00 specificity 1.00 extraction confidence 91%

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Occurrences

Congress.gov shows Scanlon cosponsored H.R.4602, introduced July 13, 2023, to replace "wives" and "husbands" in federal law with "spouses".

Scanlon cosponsored legislation to update federal law to use gender-neutral spousal language.

H.R.4602 - Amend the Code for Marriage Equality Act of 2023
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Evidence

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Congress.gov lists H.R.4602's official title as replacing references to "wives" and "husbands" in federal law with "spouses"; it lists Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon as a cosponsor on 08/11/2023. The bill remained at Introduced/Referred to House Judiciary.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Official House legislative record shows Scanlon concretely supported the exact policy by cosponsoring H.R.4602, though the bill itself did not advance beyond introduction in the 118th Congress.

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H.R.4602 - Amend the Code for Marriage Equality Act of 2023
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon as an original cosponsor of H.R.4163 on 06/26/2025. The bill status is Introduced, with latest action referral to House Ways and Means on 06/26/2025; bill text replaces multiple tax-code phrases such as "husband and wife" with "married couple" or "spouses."

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): No new action was found in the 2026-08-18 to 2026-08-20 lookback window, but current-Congress official records show continued support for gender-neutral spouse terminology in federal tax law; the measure remains unresolved legislatively.

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Congress.gov - H.R.4163, PRIDE Act of 2025
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Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): delivered. later_term

Scanlon fulfilled the support-based promise by cosponsoring H.R.4602 in 2023, whose official title directly sought to replace references to wives and husbands in federal law with spouses, and by originally cosponsoring H.R.4163 in 2025, which similarly updates federal tax-code marriage terminology. The underlying legislation had not been enacted, but the promised action was support, not unilateral enactment.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%