This joint resolution provides that the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, was ratified by three-fourths of the states and is therefore a valid constitutional amendment, regardless of any time limit that was in the original proposal.
The Equal Rights Amendment was originally proposed to the states in 1972. The original proposal included a deadline for ratification of March 22, 1979; Congress subsequently extended the deadline to June 30, 1982. Although the requisite 38 states have ratified the amendment, three of these states did so after the deadlines, and five states subsequently rescinded their ratifications. The status of the amendment has been the subject of litigation.
[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
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[S.J. Res. 4 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]
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Calendar No. 3
118th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. J. RES. 4
Removing the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights
Amendment.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 24 (legislative day, January 3), 2023
Mr. Cardin (for himself and Ms. Murkowski) introduced the following
joint resolution; which was read the first time
January 25, 2023
Read the second time and placed on the calendar
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JOINT RESOLUTION
Removing the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights
Amendment.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding any time
limit contained in House Joint Resolution 208, 92nd Congress, as agreed
to in the Senate on March 22, 1972, the article of amendment proposed
to the States in that joint resolution is valid to all intents and
purposes as part of the Constitution, having been ratified by the
legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.
Calendar No. 3
118th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. J. RES. 4
_______________________________________________________________________
JOINT RESOLUTION
Removing the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights
Amendment.
_______________________________________________________________________
January 25, 2023
Read the second time and placed on the calendar
Introduced in Senate
Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 3.
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (CR S1322)
Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (CR S1322)
Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (CR S1365)
Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (CR S1403)
Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 47. Record Vote Number: 99. (CR S1406)
Roll Call #99 (Senate)Motion by Senator Schumer to reconsider the vote by which cloture on the motion to proceed to S.J. Res. 4 was not invoked (Record Vote No. 99) entered in Senate.
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