Proud to report the Minnesota Legislature passed the federal ERA resolution in 2023! 

Senator Liza Murkowski & Rep. Ayanna Pressley have introduced their resolutions into the 119th Congress: S.J.Res.38 & H.J.Res.80 establishing the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

 

2023 Minnesota Federal ERA Resolution to Congress (SF 47, HF 197)

BE IT RESOLVED by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota that it urges the Congress of the United States to pass House Resolution 891, resolving that the requirements have been met to ratify the ERA and that it shall now be known as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding any time limit contained in House Joint Resolution 208, 92d Congress, as agreed to in the Senate on March 22, 1972, the article of amendment proposed to the States in that joint resolution is valid to all intents and purposes as part of the United States Constitution having been ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.”

Chief Authors

Senator Sandy Pappas & Representative Kristin Bahner

Minnesota State Senator Sandy Pappas, SD65

Senator Sandy Pappas

Minnesota SD 65

Chief Author of the 2023 Federal ERA Resolution in the Minnesota Senate

Meet Sen. Pappas

Minnesota State Representative Kristin Bahner, HD34B

Representative Kristin Bahner

Minnesota HD 34B

Chief Author of the 2023 Federal ERA Resolution in the Minnesota House

Meet Rep. Bahner

The Federal Equal Rights Amendment

The Federal ERA is, in fact, ratified. 

The Federal ERA is just 24 words: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

We have completed all the constitutional requirements specified in Article V, making the Equal Rights Amendment the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

So why isn’t it an official amendment yet?

To amend the U.S. Constitution, a bill must pass through both chambers of Congress, then 38 states must ratify the language.

Never in the history of the United States has an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, having completed all requirements set out by Article V of the same constitution, been stopped in its tracks by a technicality—until women’s rights were on the docket.

We won’t stand for it.

To learn more about the federal ERA, visit eracoalition.org.

Take Action

Join the movement to publish the Equal Rights Amendment!

Save the Date

Show up for ERA on International Women's Day!

Wednesday, March 8, 2023
at the Minnesota State Capitol

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