Overview
- The proposed ban was inserted as an amendment to a Department of Health measure that stalled before the deadline.
- Marriage between first cousins remains legal in Florida under current state law.
- Sponsor Rep. Dean Black says he plans to bring the ban back in a future session, potentially as a standalone bill or attached to another measure.
- Draft language said incestuous marriages entered into after July 1 would not be recognized for any purpose in the state.
- Florida is among a minority of states that still permit first-cousin marriage, though many others prohibit or restrict the practice.