South Carolina H 3501: Equality of rights; US Constitution

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2025-2026 Bill 3501 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 06, 2024) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3501

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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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