Florida Senate - 2021 SCR 500



By Senator Gibson





6-00515A-21 2021500__
1 Senate Concurrent Resolution
2 A concurrent resolution ratifying the proposed
3 amendment to the Constitution of the United States
4 relating to equal rights for men and women.
5
6 WHEREAS, during the Second Session of the 92nd Congress of
7 the United States of America, by a constitutional majority of
8 two-thirds, both houses approved the Equal Rights Amendment, and
9 WHEREAS, on March 22, 1972, this proposed amendment to the
10 Constitution of the United States was sent to the states for
11 ratification, and
12 WHEREAS, Article V of the United States Constitution
13 authorizes the Legislature of Florida to ratify proposed
14 amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and
15 WHEREAS, the provisions of the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment
16 contained a 7-year period for ratification, a deadline the
17 United States Congress later extended to 1982 after 35 states
18 had ratified the amendment, and
19 WHEREAS, on February 13, 2020, the United States House of
20 Representatives passed House Joint Resolution 79 to
21 retroactively eliminate the ratification deadline from the
22 amendment, and similar measures have been introduced in the
23 United States Senate, and
24 WHEREAS, constitutional equality for men and women
25 continues to be timely in the United States and worldwide, and
26 many other nations have achieved constitutional equality for men
27 and women, NOW, THEREFORE,
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29 Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida, the House
30 of Representatives Concurring:
31
32 That the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the
33 United States set forth below is ratified by the Legislature of
34 the State of Florida.
35 “ARTICLE ____
36 “SECTION 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be
37 denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on
38 account of sex.
39 “SECTION 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce,
40 by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
41 “SECTION 3. This amendment shall take effect two years
42 after the date of ratification.”
43 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of the
44 foregoing preamble and resolution be immediately forwarded by
45 the Secretary of State of the State of Florida, under the Great
46 Seal of this state, to the President of the United States, the
47 Secretary of State of the United States, the President of the
48 Senate of the United States, the Speaker of the House of
49 Representatives of the United States, and the Administrator of
50 the General Services Administration of the United States.