A bill that aims to prevent child marriage like Meyer’s is expected to be introduced in both the House and Senate on Thursday. The legislation — cosponsored by Democrats Reps. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin and Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois in the House and Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Brian Schatz of Hawaii in the Senate — was first introduced in 2024 and is the first concerted effort by Congress to condemn and prevent child marriage domestically.