Overview
- Lawmakers passed the Civil Code reform by majority after a polarized debate that included split votes within the PAN bloc.
- The code replaces gendered terms such as “husband and wife” with gender‑neutral “spouses” and defines marriage as the free union of two persons.
- The measure now goes to the state Executive for publication in the Periódico Oficial del Gobierno del Estado de Guanajuato, which triggers its entry into force.
- Backers framed the change as legal harmonization and symbolic redress, with María Eugenia García Oliveros, Sandra Alicia Pedroza Orozco, and Sergio Alejandro Contreras citing equality and human rights.
- Opponents, including Susana Bermúdez Cano and Karol Jared González Márquez, argued the prior code was not discriminatory and invoked traditional and etymological views of marriage.