REFERENCE TITLE: Equal Rights Amendment Advisory Question
State of Arizona
Senate
Thirty-first Legislature
Second Regular Session
S. C. R. 1013
Introduced by [illegible]
Sandra Day O'Connor
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
ORDERING THE SUBMISSION TO THE PEOPLE OF AN ADVISORY QUESTION RELATING TO RATIFYING THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES WHICH PROVIDES THAT EQUALITY OF RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW SHALL NOT BE DENIED OR ABRIDGED BY THE UNITED STATES OR BY ANY STATE ON ACCOUNT OF SEX.
Whereas, the Ninety-second Congress of the United States of America at its Second Session, in both Houses, by a Constitutional majority of two-thirds thereof, adopted the following proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States of America in the following words, to wit:
JOINT RESOLUTION
"Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 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 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:
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 article shall take effect two years after the date of ratification."
Therefore
Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Arizona, the House of Representatives concurring:
1. Under the power of the referendum, as vested in the legislature, the following advisory question shall be submitted to the qualified electors of this state for the purpose of obtaining their recommendations to the legislature as to whether or not the legislature should ratify the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America:
"ADVISORY QUESTION
DO YOU RECOMMEND THAT THE ARIZONA LEGISLATURE SHOULD RATIFY THE FOLLOWING PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES WHICH PROVIDES THAT EQUALITY OF RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW SHALL NOT BE DENIED OR ABRIDGED BY THE UNITED STATES OR BY ANY STATE ON ACCOUNT OF SEX?
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 article shall take effect two years after the date of ratification."
If you recommend that the legislature should ratify the proposed amendment, vote 'YES', if not, vote 'NO'."
2. The secretary of state is directed to submit said advisory question to the people at the polls, and to cause to be printed on the official ballot at the next regular general election the title and number thereof, in the same manner as provided for measures pursuant to section 1, part 1, article IV, Constitution of Arizona.