TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – The Florida bill to ban marrying a first cousin failed to pass in the Florida Senate.

State lawmakers voted down HB-733, which proposed that “incestuous marriages” would not be recognized for any purpose in the state of Florida after July 1, 2026.

The bill had proposed that a man “may not marry any woman to whom he is related by lineal consanguinity, nor his sister, nor his aunt, nor his niece,” while a woman cannot marry a man “whom she is related by lineal consanguinity, nor her brother, nor her uncle, nor her nephew.”

State Representative Dean Black told Florida’s Action News Jax that he expects another vote on the same issue sometime in the future.

“There are plenty of people here, and there are plenty of people you can find to be your lifelong partner without looking to your first cousin,” Black said.

Florida is one of more than a dozen states where marrying your first cousin is legal, but most of the United States has banned such marriages.

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A man attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) while she was speaking during a Tuesday town hall meeting in Minneapolis, according to local police. According to an initial police statement, the man used a syringe to spray an unknown liquid at Omar.

The man was immediately arrested and booked into Hennepin County Jail on suspicion of 3rd degree assault, the statement added.

A live stream of the event shows the man being tackled and taken away by security. Omar appears unharmed and continues speaking.

“We will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us,” she says.

Omar’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Hours earlier, President Donald Trump spoke derisively of Omar at an event in Iowa. “She comes from a country that’s a disaster. Probably it’s considered, I think, the worst — it’s not even a country, okay? It barely has a government,” he said, referring to Somalia.