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38 states have ratified the amendment, three of these states did so after the deadlines, and five states subsequently rescinded their ratifications.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]
[S.J. Res. 38 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 38

      Establishing the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 25, 2025

  Ms. Murkowski (for herself 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


 
      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, 92nd 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 Constitution, having been ratified by the 
legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.
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