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A joint resolution establishing the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Establishing the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Introduced Mar 25, 2025

Latest action (Mar 25, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Referred to
Judiciary Committee
Policy area
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Issues
Civil Rights

Summary

This joint resolution proposes to declare that the Equal Rights Amendment, originally proposed to the states in 1972, has been ratified as part of the Constitution. The resolution would disregard any time limit contained in the original proposal and establish that the amendment is valid and ratified based on having been approved by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
3 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Mar 25, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. · senate
  2. Mar 25, 2025 Introduced in Senate

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Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

March 25, 2025

Ms. Murkowski (for herself and Ms. Hirono) introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

JOINT RESOLUTION

Establishing 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. <all>

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