This joint resolution would remove the deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would add the following amendment to the U.S. Constitution: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” In 2020, the thirty-eighth state ratified the ERA, which satisfies the requirement that three-fourths of the states must vote to ratify constitutional amendments, but the deadline for ratification has passed. This joint resolution passed the House on Feb. 13, 2020.
Vote result: Passed
YEAs: 232
NAYs: 183
Legislator | State Sort ascending | District | Party | Vote | |
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Rep. Nita M. Lowey | 17 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Max Rose | 11 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Grace Meng | 6 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Paul Tonko | 20 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Gregory W. Meeks | 5 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries | 8 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Anthony Brindisi | 22 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. José E. Serrano | 15 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Yvette D. Clarke | 9 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez | 7 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Adriano Espaillat | 13 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | 14 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Kathleen Rice | 4 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Lee Zeldin | 1 | Republican | No | ||
Rep. Eliot L. Engel | 16 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Tom Reed | 23 | Republican | Yes | ||
Rep. Thomas Suozzi | 3 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Brian Higgins | 26 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Jerrold Nadler | 12 | Democrat | Yes | ||
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney | 18 | Democrat | Yes |