H.J.Res. 82: Expressing the sense of Congress that the article of amendment commonly known as the "Equal Rights Amendment" has been validly ratified and is enforceable as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and the Archivist of the United States must certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment without delay.
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H.J.Res. 82: Expressing the sense of Congress that the article of amendment commonly known as the "Equal Rights Amendment" has been validly ratified and is enforceable as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and the Archivist of the United States must certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment without delay.
118th Congress · introduced 2023-07-14 · Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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- Who proposed it: Rep. Bush, Cori [D-MO-1] · what a sponsor is
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Expressing the sense of Congress that the article of amendment commonly known as the "Equal Rights Amendment" has been validly ratified and is enforceable as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and the Archivist of the United States must certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment without delay.
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Expressing the sense of Congress that the article of amendment commonly known as the "Equal Rights Amendment" has been validly ratified and is enforceable as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and the Archivist of the United States must certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment without delay.
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Sponsor: Rep. Bush, Cori [D-MO-1] · 131 cosponsors
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Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Becca Balint (D-VT), Jennifer L. McClellan (D-VA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Jonathan L. Jackson (D-IL), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Summer L. Lee (D-PA), Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Shontel M. Brown (D-OH), Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Dina Titus (D-NV), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Jill N. Tokuda (D-HI), Judy Chu (D-CA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Nikema Williams (D-GA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Glenn Ivey (D-MD), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Susie Lee (D-NV), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Terri A. Sewell (D-AL), Valerie P. Foushee (D-NC), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Ed Case (D-HI), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Al Green (D-TX) and 71 more.
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- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-118hjres82.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/118/hjres>
Record fed-us-cong118-hjres82 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong118 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong118