South Carolina S 48: Sentencing Reform Oversight Committee

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2025-2026 Bill 48 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 11, 2024) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 48

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A joint Resolution

TO RATIFY A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PROVIDING THAT EQUALITY OF RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW MUST 
NOT BE DENIED OR ABRIDGED ON ACCOUNT OF SEX.

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 must 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 must 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 ratification. Now, 
therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
South Carolina:

SECTION 1. The 
proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, 
providing that equality of rights under the law must not be denied or abridged 
on account of sex, is hereby ratified.

SECTION 2. Certified copies of this resolution 
must be forwarded immediately upon enactment by the Secretary of State of South 
Carolina to the Archivist of the United States, National Archives and Records 
Administration, Washington, D.C., to the President 
of the United States Senate, and to the Speaker of the United States House of 
Representatives.

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