A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to RATIFY THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RELATING TO EQUAL RIGHTS FOR MEN AND WOMEN.
Whereas, the 92nd Congress of the United States of America at its second session, in both houses, by a Constitutional majority of two‑thirds thereof, adopted the following proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States of America in the following words, to wit:
"JOINT RESOLUTION
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"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, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the Legislatures of three‑fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission by the Congress:
"ARTICLE ______
"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.
"Sec. 2.  The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
"Sec. 3.  This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification." Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  That the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America set out in the preamble to this act be, and the same is, hereby ratified by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina.
SECTION 2.  That certified copies of this preamble and act be forwarded by the Governor of this State to the Administrator of General Services, Washington, D.C., and the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.