MO SCR30

Missouri General Assembly ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits denial or abridgement of equality of rights under law on account of sex.

Amendment was passed by Congress and sent to states for ratification on March 22, 1972, with Congress setting a ratification deadline of June 30, 1982, by which 35 states ratified it.

Missouri General Assembly finds the proposed Amendment meaningful and needed, determining that current political, social, and economic conditions are as demanding or more demanding than when the Amendment was first submitted.

Secretary of the Senate shall prepare inscribed copies of the resolution for the U.S. Archivist, Vice President, House Speaker, and Missouri's Congressional delegation with request for Congressional Record publication.

Resolution asserts that Congress may lack constitutional authority to place a deadline on the ratification process and that Article V of the Constitution allows Missouri to ratify the Amendment.