2016 House Joint Resolution GG

Add “sex” to constitution’s ban on denying equal protection

Introduced in the House

April 12, 2016

Introduced by Rep. Marcia Hovey-Wright (D-92)

To place before voters in the next general election a constitutional amendment to add “sex” to “religion, race, color or national origin” in the state constitution’s ban on denying equal protection under the law on the basis of these characteristics. This is already in the state civil rights law, but not in the Constitution of 1963.

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary