Senate Concurrent Resolution 566

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION RATIFYING THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PROVIDING THAT EQUALITY OF RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW SHALL NOT BE DENIED OR ABRIDGED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ANY STATE ON ACCOUNT OF SEX; TO PROVIDE THAT THIS CONCURRENT RESOLUTION SHALL BE NAMED IN HONOR OF FORMER LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR EVELYN GANDY; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING THEREIN:

SECTION 1. The following article proposed as an amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified:

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Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall 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."

SECTION 2. This Concurrent Resolution shall be known and may be cited as the Edythe Evelyn Gandy Equal Rights Amendment.

SECTION 3. The Secretary of State of the State of Mississippi is directed to send a certified copy of this Concurrent Resolution to the Director of the General Services Administration of the United States and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, and the President of the United States Senate, and be made available to the Capitol Press Corps.