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The original Equality Act was developed by U.S. Representatives Bella Abzug (D-NY) and Ed Koch (D-NY) in 1974. The Equality Act of 1974 (H.R. 14752 of the 93rd Congress) sought to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and marital status in federally assisted programs, housing sales, rentals, financing, and brokerage ...
This version of the amendment reads: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. [2] The vote is 84 in favor and 8 opposed. A deadline is set that it must by ratified by the required 38 states within the next seven years. [3] March 22, 1972 – Hawaii ratifies the ERA. [4]
The resolution, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women", reads, in part: [1] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...
Equality Act 2006, an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, a precursor to the Equality Act 2010; Equality Act 2010, an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, with the same goals as the four major EU Equal Treatment Directives; Equality Act (United States), a bill in the United States Congress that would ban discrimination on the basis of ...
This is a list of acts enacted by the United States Congress pertaining to education in the United States. Many laws related to education are codified under Title 20 of the United States Code. This list does not include resolutions designating a specific day, week, or month in honor of an educational goal.
In the United States, states have passed state equal rights amendments (ERAs) to their constitutions that provide various degrees of legal protection against discrimination based on sex. With some mirroring the broad language and guarantees of the proposed Federal Equal Rights Amendment , others more closely resemble the Equal Protection Clause ...
In the United States, all but Maryland and New Jersey have a state song. A Maryland state delegate, a Republican, is looking to change that. ... A Maryland state delegate, a Republican, is looking ...
CROWN Act (2023) Maine 2012 Maine Question 1; CROWN Act (2022) Maryland Maryland Constitution, Declaration of Rights, Article 46 (1972) Civil Marriage Protection Act (2012) CROWN Act (2020) Massachusetts Massachusetts Constitution, Part 1, Article 1 (1976) Massachusetts Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Initiative; CROWN Act (2022) Michigan