NOTE: This provision of law was included in the Unconstitutional Statutes Biennial Report to
the Legislature, dated March 14, 2016.
§15. Defense of Marriage
Section 15. Marriage in the state of Louisiana shall consist only of the union of one man
and one woman. No official or court of the state of Louisiana shall construe this constitution or
any state law to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any
member of a union other than the union of one man and one woman. A legal status identical or
substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or
recognized. No official or court of the state of Louisiana shall recognize any marriage contracted
in any other jurisdiction which is not the union of one man and one woman.
Added by Acts 2004, No. 926, §1, approved Sept. 18, 2004, eff. Oct. 19, 2004.