A joint resolution removing the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Bill: 118-sjres-4
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2023-01-24
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments

Due process and equal protection

Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Women's rights
Latest action: action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 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.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-01-24
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>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. </p> <p>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38 states have ratified the amendment, three of these states did so after the deadlines, and five states subsequently rescinded their ratifications.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.</p>

tv_txt: IIA Calendar No. 3 118th CONGRESS 1st Session S. J. RES. 4 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 JOINT RESOLUTION Removing the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

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.

January 25, 2023 Read the second time and placed on the calendar