Official Summaries

This joint resolution provides that the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, was ratified by three-fourths of the states and is therefore a valid constitutional amendment, regardless of any time limit that was in the original proposal.

The Equal Rights Amendment was originally proposed to the states in 1972. The original proposal included a deadline for ratification of March 22, 1979; Congress subsequently extended the deadline to June 30, 1982. Although the requisite 38 states have ratified the amendment, three of these states did so after the deadlines, and five states subsequently rescinded their ratifications. The status of the amendment has been the subject of litigation.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 80 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 80

      Establishing the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 24, 2025

      Ms. Pressley (for herself, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Ms. Dean of 
Pennsylvania, Ms. Kamlager-Dove, Ms. McClellan, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Deluzio, 
 Ms. Strickland, Mrs. McIver, Mr. Keating, Mr. Foster, Ms. Titus, Mr. 
 Doggett, Mr. Peters, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Garcia of California, 
 Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Connolly, Ms. Velazquez, Ms. Chu, Ms. 
   Jayapal, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Quigley, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick, Ms. 
Schakowsky, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Ms. Omar, Ms. Clarke of 
New York, Mr. Mrvan, Mr. Frost, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Costa, Ms. Wasserman 
 Schultz, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Norcross, Ms. Castor of Florida, 
 Mr. Neguse, Mrs. Sykes, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Ms. 
   Sherrill, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Ms. Stansbury, Mr. Amo, Mr. 
Pocan, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Morelle, Mr. Hoyer, 
 Mr. Mannion, Ms. Davids of Kansas, Mr. Pappas, Ms. Balint, Ms. Ross, 
  Ms. Perez, Mr. Beyer, Ms. Lee of Nevada, Mr. Fields, Mr. Jackson of 
   Illinois, Ms. Jacobs, Ms. Sanchez, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Brown, Mrs. 
     Foushee, Ms. Bynum, Ms. Norton, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. 
 Krishnamoorthi, Ms. Elfreth, Ms. DeGette, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Carbajal, 
 Mr. Vindman, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Lawler, Mr. Kennedy of New 
  York, Mrs. McClain Delaney, Mr. Castro of Texas, Ms. Crockett, Mr. 
    Carson, Ms. McCollum, Mrs. Trahan, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Ms. 
   Budzinski, Mr. Sherman, Ms. Stevens, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Nadler, Mr. 
Panetta, Mr. Bera, Mr. Ruiz, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Torres 
of New York, Mr. Swalwell, Mr. Mullin, Ms. Leger Fernandez, Mr. Casten, 
Mr. Courtney, Ms. Lois Frankel of Florida, Ms. Rivas, Mr. Thanedar, Mr. 
  Landsman, Mrs. Torres of California, Mr. Case, Mr. Subramanyam, Ms. 
   Simon, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. Cisneros, Mr. Meeks, Ms. Goodlander, Ms. 
 Waters, Mr. Riley of New York, Ms. DelBene, Ms. Escobar, Mr. Pallone, 
Mr. Golden of Maine, Mr. Sorensen, Mr. Latimer, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Sewell, 
     Ms. Dexter, and Mr. Gottheimer) submitted the following joint 
    resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
      Establishing 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 is valid to all intents and 
purposes as part of the United States Constitution having been ratified 
by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.
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