Establishing the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Key Points

• This resolution aims to officially add the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution. The ERA states that legal rights cannot be denied or limited by the government based on a person's sex.
• Although a deadline was originally set in 1972, this bill declares that the deadline is no longer valid. It argues the amendment should be part of the Constitution because 38 states—the three-fourths required—have now voted to approve it.
• If this becomes law, it would provide a permanent constitutional guarantee of equality. This would help protect people from sex-based discrimination in areas like employment, wages, and government services.
• This change would make it much harder for future laws or court rulings to roll back protections for women's rights, as the principle of equality would be written directly into the nation's founding document.