[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 74 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 74

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
                      regarding the right to vote.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 15, 2017

Mr. Pocan (for himself, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Ryan of 
Ohio, Mr. Takano, Ms. Norton, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Cummings, Mr. 
   Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Ms. Moore, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. 
 Garamendi, Mr. Lowenthal, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, 
    Mr. DeSaulnier, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Norcross, Mr. McGovern, Mr. 
 Blumenauer, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Mr. Jeffries, Mr. Veasey, Mr. 
 Conyers, Mr. Grijalva, and Ms. Roybal-Allard) submitted the following 
 joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
                      regarding the right to vote.

    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 
after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. Every citizen of the United States, who is of legal 
voting age, shall have the fundamental right to vote in any public 
election held in the jurisdiction in which the citizen resides.
    ``Section 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce and implement 
this article by appropriate legislation.''.
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