"If that's the question they want, that's the question they deserve to vote on," Dermody said. "So I voted to support what the district was telling me."

Slager said he just wants the marriage debate over, and the fastest way to make that happen would be to pass the amendment intact and allow Hoosier voters to ratify or reject it at the Nov. 4 general election.

House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, expects the House, possibly as soon as Tuesday, will vote to send the Republican-controlled Senate the revised amendment. It now reads: "Only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Indiana."

State Rep. Ed Clere, R-New Albany, the only Republican to vote against the amendment when it was first approved in 2011, said he hopes the House will instead kill the proposal once and for all.

"Make no mistake, deleting the second sentence will not fix HJR-3. The only way to fix HJR-3 would be to delete both sentences," Clere said.

If the House approves the revised amendment, Senate President David Long, R-Fort Wayne, has said the Senate "probably would honor" the House change, though he added the 50 senators do have the power to restore the second sentence to the amendment.