# Announcement of Ruling: Implementing United States v. Windsor for Purposes of Entitlement and Enrollment in Medicare Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Notice of CMS ruling. · Published 2015-02-13 · 80 FR 7975
## Document
- **Document number:** 2015-03069
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 80 FR 7975
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 406
- **Publication date:** 2015-02-13
- **HHS docket:** CMS-4176-NR
## Abstract

This document announces a CMS Ruling that states the CMS policies for implementing United States v. Windsor ("Windsor"), in which the Supreme Court held that section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), enacted in 1996, is unconstitutional. Section 3 of DOMA defined "marriage" and "spouse" as excluding same-sex marriages and same-sex spouses, and effectively precluded the Federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages and spouses.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/02/13/2015-03069/announcement-of-ruling-implementing-united-states-v-windsor-for-purposes-of-entitlement-and)
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