Bills · 118th Congress · Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

A joint resolution removing the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Where it stands

  1. Introduced1/24/23
  2. Passed Senate
  3. House
  4. President
  5. Law

Introduced in the Senate on January 24, 2023.

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Procedural motions
SenateOn Cloture on the Motion to Proceed · 4/27/23Cloture on the motion to proceedA vote to end debate on whether to start considering a measure — the way the Senate stops a filibuster before a bill is even taken up. For most legislation it takes three-fifths of all senators (60 with no vacancies). It is not a vote on the bill itself.Senate: About Filibusters and Cloture ↗Congressional Research Service: Invoking Cloture in the Senate ↗
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected · Yea 51 · Nay 47Official source ↗
Official summary (CRS)

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38 states have ratified the amendment, three of these states did so after the deadlines, and five states subsequently rescinded their ratifications.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.

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Sponsor
Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin ( Democrat · MD)
Cosponsors
53
Introduced
1/24/23
Policy area
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

What happens next

The Senate must pass it, then the House must pass the same text, then it goes to the President.

If it isn't enacted by Jan 3, 2025, it expires when the 118th Congress ends.

All actions (9)
  1. 1/24/23Introduced in Senate
  2. 1/24/23Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
  3. 1/25/23Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 3.
  4. 4/25/23Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (CR S1322)
  5. 4/25/23Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (CR S1322)
  6. 4/26/23Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (CR S1365)
  7. 4/27/23Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (CR S1403)
  8. 4/27/23Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 47. Record Vote Number: 99. (CR S1406)
  9. 4/27/23Motion by Senator Schumer to reconsider the vote by which cloture on the motion to proceed to S.J. Res. 4 was not invoked (Record Vote No. 99) entered in Senate.