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S. 918
STATUS INFORMATION
Joint Resolution
Sponsors: Senators M.B. Matthews, McLeod, Shealy, Senn and Davis
Document Path: l:\council\bills\cc\15668zw20.docx
Companion/Similar bill(s): 901, 3340, 3391
Introduced in the Senate on January 14, 2020
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary
Summary: Equality of rights
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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12/11/2019 Senate Prefiled
12/11/2019 Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary
1/14/2020 Senate Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 40)
1/14/2020 Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary
(Senate Journal-page 40)
3/2/2020 Senate Referred to Subcommittee: J.Matthews (ch), Shealy,
McLeod, Senn
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO RATIFY A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PROVIDING THAT EQUALITY OF RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW MUST NOT BE DENIED OR ABRIDGED ON ACCOUNT OF SEX.
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 must 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:
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law must 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." Now, therefore,
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. The proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, providing that equality of rights under the law must not be denied or abridged on account of sex, is hereby ratified.
SECTION 2. Certified copies of this resolution must be forwarded immediately upon enactment by the Secretary of State of South Carolina to the Archivist of the United States, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D. C. to the President of the United States Senate, and to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
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