REFERENCE TITLE: ratification; equal rights amendment

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-sixth Legislature

First Regular Session

2023

SCR 1017

Introduced by

Senators Alston: Burch, Diaz, Epstein, Fernandez, Gabaldón, Gonzales, Hatathlie, Hernandez, Marsh, Mendez, Miranda, Sundareshan, Terán; Representatives Gutierrez, Pawlik, Schwiebert, Sun

A Concurrent Resolution

ratifying the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States; providing equal rights for men and women.

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Whereas, the Congress of the United States, on March 22, 1972, in both houses, by a constitutional majority of two-thirds in both houses, adopted the following proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States in the following words, to wit:

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 208

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission by the Congress:

ARTICLE ——

Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.

Therefore

Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

1. That this proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States is ratified.

2. That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit a copy of this Resolution to the President of the United States Senate and the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.