Removes the Equal Rights Amendment's ratification deadline and declares it valid

§1What it does

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This joint resolution would declare that the Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed constitutional amendment that bans discrimination based on sex, has been ratified by three-fourths of the states and is valid, regardless of any deadline in the original proposal.^2,3 Congress sent the amendment to the states in 1972 with a ratification deadline of March 22, 1979, which it later extended to June 30, 1982.^2,3 The required 38 states have ratified it, but three did so after the deadlines and five later rescinded their ratifications, and the amendment's status has been disputed in court.^2,3

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