Title: Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment.
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:
This joint resolution eliminates the time limit for ratification of the equal rights amendment (prohibits discrimination on account of sex) proposed to the states in House Joint Resolution 208 of the 92nd Congress, as agreed to in the Senate on March 22, 1972. The amendment shall be part of the Constitution whenever ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 53 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 53

    Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights 
                               amendment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 31, 2017

  Ms. Speier (for herself, Ms. Adams, Ms. Barragan, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. 
Beyer, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Bonamici, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle 
of Pennsylvania, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Ms. Brownley of California, 
 Mrs. Bustos, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Cartwright, Ms. Judy 
   Chu of California, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Ms. 
Clarke of New York, Mr. Clay, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Conyers, Mr. 
   Cummings, Mr. DeFazio, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Delaney, Ms. DeLauro, Ms. 
DelBene, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Deutch, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Michael F. Doyle 
  of Pennsylvania, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Engel, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Foster, Mr. 
 Garamendi, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Higgins of New York, Mr. 
Huffman, Mr. Jeffries, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Ms. Kaptur, 
   Mr. Keating, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Kildee, Mr. 
Kilmer, Mr. Kind, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. Larson of 
  Connecticut, Ms. Lee, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Mr. Loebsack, Mr. 
  Lowenthal, Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Mr. Lynch, Mr. 
Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Ms. Matsui, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Meeks, 
Ms. Moore, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Nadler, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Norcross, Ms. 
   Norton, Mr. Pascrell, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Price of North 
Carolina, Mr. Quigley, Miss Rice of New York, Mr. Richmond, Ms. Roybal-
  Allard, Mr. Rush, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Ms. Sanchez, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms. 
  Schakowsky, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Schrader, Mr. Serrano, Ms. Sinema, Ms. 
  Slaughter, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. 
Takano, Ms. Titus, Mr. Tonko, Mrs. Torres, Ms. Tsongas, Mr. Vargas, Mr. 
 Veasey, Mr. Walz, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Welch, Mr. Yarmuth, Ms. 
Fudge, Mr. Courtney, Mrs. Davis of California, Mr. Evans, Mr. Carson of 
   Indiana, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Levin, Ms. Wilson of 
Florida, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Mr. Peters, Mr. Heck, Mr. Capuano, Mr. 
 Himes, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Perlmutter, 
    Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire, Mr. Gallego, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mrs. 
  Lawrence, Mr. Hastings, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. 
 Ruiz, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Payne, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Nolan, Mr. Sires, Mr. 
McGovern, Mr. Kihuen, and Mrs. Watson Coleman) submitted the following 
 joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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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, 92d Congress, as agreed 
to in the Senate on March 22, 1972, the article of amendment proposed 
to the States in that joint resolution shall be valid to all intents 
and purposes as part of the Constitution whenever ratified by the 
legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.
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