[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 15 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 15

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 9, 2013

  Mr. Cardin (for himself, Mr. Kirk, Ms. Mikulski, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. 
    Harkin, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Levin, Mr. Menendez, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. 
Heinrich, Mrs. Boxer, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. 
   Murphy, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Brown, Mr. Begich, and Ms. 
Hirono) introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice 
             and 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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