SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 43
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS BLAND AND MAXWELL.
Pre-filed December 1, 1999, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
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JOINT RESOLUTION
To ratify a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
WHEREAS, at the second session of the Ninety-second Congress of the United States of America, it was resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, two-thirds of each house concurring therein, that the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission by the Congress, no provision having been made for ratification by convention as mandated by article I, section 4, of the Constitution of the state of Missouri:
"ARTICLE . . . ."
"Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Section 2. The congress shall have the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of its ratification."
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Ninetieth General Assembly of the state of Missouri, the House of Representatives concurring therein, that such proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America be and the same is hereby ratified; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that certified copies of this resolution be forwarded by the governor of Missouri to the Administrator of General Services, Washington, D.C., and the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States.