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1		HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
2		WHEREAS, In 1972, the Ninety-second Congress of the United
3		States of America, at its Second Session, in both houses, by a
4		constitutional majority of two-thirds, adopted the following
5		proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States of
6		America:
7		"JOINT RESOLUTION RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF
8		REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
9		IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED (TWO-THIRDS OF EACH HOUSE CONCURRING
10		THEREIN), That the following article is proposed as an
11		amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which
12		shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the
13		Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of
14		three-fourths of the several States within seven years
15		from the date of its submission by the Congress:
16		"ARTICLE ______
17		Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall
18		not be denied or abridged by the United States or by
19		any State on account of sex.
20		Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to
21		enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of
22		this article.
23		Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two
24		years after the date of ratification.""; and

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1		WHEREAS, Article V of the Constitution of the United
2		States sets forth a two-step amending procedure; and
3		WHEREAS, The first step of the Article V amending
4		procedure is proposal of an amendment either by two-thirds
5		vote of both houses of Congress or by a convention called by
6		application of two-thirds of the States; and
7		WHEREAS, The second and final step of the Article V
8		amending procedure is ratification of an amendment by
9		three-fourths of the States; and
10		WHEREAS, The Constitution of the United States does not
11		limit the time for States to ratify an amendment; and
12		WHEREAS, The time limit within the internal resolution
13		used by Congress in 1972 to propose the Equal Rights Amendment
14		is, thus, without force or effect; and
15		WHEREAS, The so-called Madison Amendment, relating to
16		Compensation of Members of Congress, is the Twenty-Seventh
17		Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and
18		WHEREAS, In 1789, by two-thirds vote of each house of the
19		First Congress, the Madison Amendment completed the proposal
20		step of Article V; and

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1		WHEREAS, Approximately 203 years later, the Madison
2		Amendment completed the ratification step of Article V through
3		ratification by three-fourths of the States; and
4		WHEREAS, In 1992, having met the requirements of Article
5		V, the Madison Amendment was published and certified by the
6		Administration of President George H.W. Bush as the
7		Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United
8		States; and
9		WHEREAS, Following publication of the Madison Amendment,
10		Congress affirmed the Madison Amendment as the Twenty-Seventh
11		Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and
12		WHEREAS, As of January 27, 2020, three-fourths of the
13		States have ratified the Equal Rights Amendment; and
14		WHEREAS, In contrast to the Madison Amendment which took
15		203 years to ratify, the Equal Rights Amendment took a mere 48
16		years to ratify; and
17		WHEREAS, The Equal Rights Amendment now meets the
18		requirements of Article V of the Constitution of the United
19		States to be added as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment; therefore,
20		be it

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1		RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
2		HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE
3		SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the General Assembly urges the
4		Administration of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. to publish
5		and certify without delay the Equal Rights Amendment as the
6		Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United
7		States; and be it further
8		RESOLVED, That the General Assembly urges the Congress of
9		the United States to pass a joint resolution, affirming the
10		Equal Rights Amendment as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the
11		Constitution of the United States; and be it further
12		RESOLVED, That the General Assembly calls on other States
13		to join in this action by passing the same or similar
14		resolutions; and be it further
15		RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
16		transmitted to the President and Vice President of the United
17		States, to Members of the United States Congress, and to the
18		Archivist of the United States.