Last year, the bill ultimately stalled in the Assembly’s Judiciary Committee. The chairwoman of the committee, Helene E. Weinstein, did not specifically respond to a question about opposition to the bill, but acknowledged that the committee had “heard from many interested parties.”

“We shall continue to carefully consider this issue in this legislative session, hoping to ultimately be able to reach a sensible policy resolution going forward,” she added.

Experts on family law say that early marriage carries all sorts of social, educational and financial costs. Girls are typically wed to older men, some of them seeking green cards in the United States. The young women are far more likely than those who delay marriage to stop their educations, suffer economically and become victims of domestic violence.

Early marriage poses other difficulties. A girl can marry at 14, for instance, but cannot legally divorce until 18. (The bill in Albany would change that.) Shelters for victims of domestic violence generally do not accept anyone under 18.

“There have been cases where a girl is pregnant and the pregnancy happened as a result of sexual assault,” said Sonia Ossorio, president of the National Organization for Women New York, a group that has lobbied for the change in law. “But her parents are forcing her to marry because being an out-of-wedlock teen mother is a worse social standing than suffering a sexual assault in silence.”

Of the nearly 3,900 child marriages in New York State, 40 involved someone 14 or 15 years old, according to Unchained at Last, a group that helps women escape forced marriages.