Delaware House Bill 1 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 36-5)
Status: Enrolled on January 16 2019 - 75% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2019-01-16 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This is the final leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to provide equal rights on the basis of sex. There is no Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution. While Congress passed the Amendment in 1972, it was not ratified by the requisite number of states by the 1982 deadline. Delaware, however, was one of the first states to ratify the Amendment. About half of the states across the country have passed Equal Rights Amendments to their state constitutions in order to provide protection against discrimination based on sex. Without an Equal Rights amendment, women's rights and protections are limited. This Amendment is necessary to correct a constitutional shortcoming, reduce sex-based disparities and to codify our State's value of equality. Section 1 makes clear the General Assembly's intent in proposing this Amendment to the Delaware Constitution.

An Act Proposing An Amendment To Article I Of The Delaware Constitution Relating To Equal Rights.

Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Sen. Catherine Cloutier [R]	Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]
Sen. Nicole Poore [D]	Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Sen. Harris McDowell [D]
Rep. Andria Bennett [D]	Rep. Stephanie Bolden [D]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]
Rep. Krista Griffith [D]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Rep. Kendra Johnson [D]	Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]
Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]	Sen. Darius Brown [D]	Sen. Anthony Delcollo [R]	Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]
Sen. Ernesto Lopez [R]	Sen. Charles Paradee [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Jack Walsh [D]
Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. David Bentz [D]	Rep. Gerald Brady [D]	Rep. William Bush [D]
Rep. William Carson [D]	Rep. Franklin Cooke [D]	Rep. Earl Jaques [D]	Rep. Quinton Johnson [D]
Rep. John Kowalko [D]	Rep. Sean Lynn [D]	Rep. Sean Matthews [D]	Rep. John Mitchell [D]
Rep. Edward Osienski [D]	Rep. Michael Ramone [R]	Rep. Peter Schwartzkopf [D]	Rep. Raymond Seigfried [D]
Rep. John Viola [D]

2019-01-16 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 16 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-10 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 35 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-16		Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO
2019-01-16		Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable
2019-01-10		Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate
2019-01-10		Passed By House. Votes: 35 YES 6 NO
2019-01-09		Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits
2018-12-13		Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=27046
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=27046&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB1
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#40329
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#40339