New Streamlined 2010 Florida Equal Rights Amendment bill, Senate / House

This is a Concurrent Resolution, meaning that the Senate and House wording is identical. Honorable Senator Arthenia Joyner (D-Manatee, Hillsborough, Pinellas Counties) has already filed it before Florida's Senate and Representative Evan Jenne has done so before the Florida House of Representatives. Wording of the 2010 SCR 1192 / HCR 8003 follows. Please see that your own Florida senator and representative (YOU are their VIP, their Constituent) know of your unending desire to see that the Florida legislature does ratify (vote for, and pass) this bill. Scroll down for current, comprehensive and correct bullet-pointed ERA Talking Points. Consult Facts for Legislators at http://www.ratifyERAflorida.net/ for explanations. Check whether your own two legislators have co-sponsored this critically important bill by clicking on Co-sponsoring Legislators at that web site. Request that they do, and thank them if they have!


TEXT OF THE 2010 EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT BILL (has been filed continuously since the 2003 Session)

Florida Senate - 2010 SCR 1192 By Senator Joyner 18-00004A-10 20101192__
1 Senate Concurrent Resolution
2 A concurrent resolution ratifying the proposed
3 amendment to the Constitution of the United States
4 relating to equal rights for men and women.
5
6 WHEREAS, during the Second Session of the Ninety-second
7 Congress of the United States of America, by a constitutional
8 majority of two-thirds, both houses approved the Equal Rights
9 Amendment, and
10 WHEREAS, on March 22, 1972, this proposed amendment to the
11 Constitution of the United States was sent to the states for
12 ratification, and
13 WHEREAS, Article V of the United States Constitution
14 authorizes the Legislature of Florida to ratify proposed
15 amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and
16 WHEREAS, 35 of the necessary 38 states have already
17 ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, and
18 WHEREAS, constitutional equality for men and women
19 continues to be timely in the United States and worldwide, and
20 many other nations have achieved constitutional equality for
21 their men and women, NOW, THEREFORE,
22
23 Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida, the House
24 of Representatives Concurring:
25
26 That the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the
27 United States set forth below is ratified by the Legislature of
28 the State of Florida.
29 “Article ____”
30 “SECTION 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be
31 denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on
32 account of sex.”

33“SECTION 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce,
34 by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
35 “SECTION 3. This amendment shall take effect two years
36 after the date of ratification.”
37 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of the
38 foregoing preamble and resolution be immediately forwarded by
39 the Secretary of State of the State of Florida, under the great
40 seal, to the President of the United States, the Secretary of
41 State of the United States, the President of the Senate of the
42 United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of
43 the United States, and the Administrator of General Services of
44 the United States.
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