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Equal Rights for Men and Women 
2025-09-24T12:06:47Z 
Ratifying the proposed amendment to the United States Constitution relating to equal rights for men and women, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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SCR 
Concurrent Resolution 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SCR 82 

 By Senator Berman 

 26-00321-26 202682__ 
 1 Senate Concurrent Resolution 
 2 A concurrent resolution ratifying the proposed 
 3 amendment to the United States Constitution relating 
 4 to equal rights for men and women. 
 5 
 6 WHEREAS, during the Second Session of the 92nd Congress of 
 7 the United States of America, by a constitutional majority of 
 8 two-thirds, both houses of Congress approved the Equal Rights 
 9 Amendment, and 
 10 WHEREAS, on March 22, 1972, this proposed amendment to the 
 11 United States Constitution was sent to the states for 
 12 ratification, and 
 13 WHEREAS, Article V of the United States Constitution 
 14 authorizes the Florida Legislature to ratify proposed amendments 
 15 to the United States Constitution, and 
 16 WHEREAS, the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment contained a 7-year 
 17 period for ratification, a deadline the United States Congress 
 18 later extended to 1982 after 35 states ratified the amendment, 
 19 and 
 20 WHEREAS, in 2021, the United States House of 
 21 Representatives passed a measure to eliminate retroactively the 
 22 ratification deadline from the amendment, and the United States 
 23 Senate introduced a companion measure, and 
 24 WHEREAS, constitutional equality for men and women 
 25 continues to be timely in the United States and worldwide, and 
 26 many other nations have achieved constitutional equality for men 
 27 and women, NOW, THEREFORE, 
 28 
 29 Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida, the House 
 30 of Representatives Concurring: 
 31 
 32 That the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the 
 33 United States set forth below is ratified by the Legislature of 
 34 the State of Florida. 
 35 “ARTICLE ____ 
 36 SECTION 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be 
 37 denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on 
 38 account of sex. 
 39 SECTION 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by 
 40 appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. 
 41 SECTION 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after 
 42 the date of ratification.” 
 43 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of the 
 44 foregoing preamble and resolution be immediately forwarded by 
 45 the Secretary of State of the State of Florida, under the Great 
 46 Seal of this state, to the President of the United States, the 
 47 Secretary of State of the United States, the President of the 
 48 Senate of the United States, the Speaker of the House of 
 49 Representatives of the United States, and the Administrator of 
 50 the General Services Administration of the United States.