Introduced by Senator Mark Leno on February 21, 2014, "SB 1306" repealed Sections 300 ("AB 607", 1977), 308 ("The Marriage Recognition and Family Protection Act", author by Sen. Leno), 308.5 (Prop 22, "California Defense of Marriage Act") of the Family Code, and amended Section 300 to be gender-neutral among other sections as well. The legislation removed the statutory reference to marriage as a union "between a man and a woman" from the states' Family Code and updated the law with gender-neutral terms to apply to same-sex marriages as well as heterosexual ones.