SCR 1019

REFERENCE TITLE: ratification; equal rights amendment
State of Arizona
Senate
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
SCR 1019
Introduced by
Senators
  Kuby: Alston, Bravo, Diaz, Epstein, Gabald�n, Gonzales, Hatathlie, Miranda,
  Ortiz, Sears, Sundareshan;� Representatives Contreras P, Garcia, Gutierrez,
  M�rquez, Sandoval, Stahl Hamilton
A
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
ratifying the proposed amendment to the
Constitution of the United States; providing equal rights for men and women.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
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.