On September 15, 2026, Clémence Guetté, a deputy from La France insoumise in Val-de-Marne and vice-president of the National Assembly, introduced a bill aiming to recognize and grant legal rights to relationships based on friendship, affection, and mutual support. This initiative is part of a broader discussion on the role of friendship in society, influenced by the works of philosophers and writers such as Alice Raybaud and Geoffroy de Lagasnerie. The bill is also inspired by Guetté's own book, Pour une politique de l’amitié, published by La Découverte on August 27, 2026. The proposal outlines three main areas: giving legal recognition to civil baptism, creating a new contract between individuals connected by affection, and extending social rights to such relationships. The bill introduces a "social partnership," a legal contract between two adults seeking to formally recognize relationships of affection, assistance, and support. Unlike PACS (civil unions), this partnership is not limited to couples and can be formed even if one person is already married or in a PACS. The contract can be ended by mutual agreement or unilaterally, similar to other civil agreements. Under the proposal, inheritance rights would be extended, allowing social partners to benefit from a 100,000 € exemption before applying the progressive inheritance tax scale for direct family members. The bill also proposes changes to labor law to extend certain benefits to individuals in social partnerships, civil godparents, and godmothers. These include bereavement leave, caregiver leave, and support around the birth of a child. For individuals raising children alone, the number of sick child leave days would be doubled, and these days could be transferred to someone linked by a social partnership or to the civil godparent or godmother of the child. The proposal also aims to explicitly include different types of housing, such as rooming, in the Construction Code. The rationale behind the bill draws on a wide range of literary and philosophical works, including those by Virginia Woolf, Rousseau, Saint-Just, and Simone de Beauvoir’s Les Inséparables. It also references recent essays such as Alice Raybaud’s Nos puissantes amitiés and Hélène Giannecchini’s Un désir démesuré d’amitié. Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, whose 2023 book 3. Une aspiration au dehors contributed to the discussion, had previously called for a more radical rethinking of the legal frameworks surrounding friendship. The bill has been referred to the legal affairs committee of the National Assembly, where it will be examined and potentially amended. No further dates have yet been set for its progression.