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Council Members Gadus, Adams, McPherson, Moline, Whitman and Williams
Title
Resolution expressing Toledo City Council support of H.J. Res. 17, Removing the Deadline for the Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, and H.J. Res. 28, Restarting the Amendment Process for the Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment; and declaring an emergency.
Summary
WHEREAS, on March 22, 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment was passed by the U.S. Senate and sent to the states for ratification. The original legislation set a deadline of seven years for ratification by the required three-fourths of state legislatures. By 1979, 39 states had ratified the amendment. The deadline was extended to 1982, however no additional states completed ratification during that time; and
WHEREAS, beginning in 2017, additional states took action to ratify the ERA beginning with Nevada. Illinois and Virginia followed suit in 2018 and 2020, however the National Archives and Records Administration refused to certify the ratification; and
WHEREAS, almost fifty years later the reality of equal rights has still not been realized; and
WHEREAS, on January 21, 2021, Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA) introduced H.J. Res. 17 to remove the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment that was agreed to in the United States Senate in 1972 and providing that the Articles of Amendment be valid whenever it is ratified by three-fourths of the legislatures of the states; and
WHEREAS, on March 1, 2021, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) and lead co-sponsor Congressman Tom Reed (R-NY) introduced H.J. Res. 28 to restart the amendment ratification that stalled during the mid-1970's; and
WHEREAS, the necessity of the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment was made ever more apparent by the disparity of the negative effects of COVID on women and especially women of color; and
WHEREAS, "Our Constitution, when written, purposefully excluded the...
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