Text of CT SJ 35 (2025)
Resolution Proposing A State Constitutional Amendment Concerning Discrimination On The Basis Of Sex Under The Equal Protection Clause.
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General Assembly
Senate Joint
Resolution No. 35
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 3787
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
RESOLUTION PROPOSING A STATE CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT CONCERNING DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF
SEX UNDER THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE.
Resolved by this Assembly:
Section 1. That the following be proposed as an amendment to the
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Constitution of the State, which, when approved and adopted in the
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manner provided by the Constitution, shall, to all intents and purposes,
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become a part thereof:
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Article twenty-first of the amendments to the Constitution is
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amended to read as follows:
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No person shall be denied the equal protection of the law nor be
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subjected to segregation or discrimination in the exercise or enjoyment
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of his or her civil or political rights because of religion, race, color,
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ancestry, national origin, sex or physical or mental disability. As used in
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this section, discrimination in the exercise or enjoyment of civil or
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political rights because of sex includes, but is not limited to,
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discrimination, in intent or effect, based on pregnancy, including
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preventing, initiating, continuing or terminating a pregnancy; sexual
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orientation; gender identity and expression; and related health care.
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RESOLVED: That the foregoing proposed amendment to the
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Constitution be continued to the next session of the General Assembly
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elected at the general election to be held on November 3, 2026, and
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published with the laws passed at the present session, or be presented
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to the electors at the general election to be held on November 3, 2026,
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whichever the case may be, according to article sixth of the amendments
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to the Constitution. The designation of said proposed amendment to be
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used on the ballots at such election shall be "Shall the Constitution of the
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State be amended to amend the equal protection clause to provide that
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discrimination on the basis of sex includes discrimination based on
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pregnancy, including preventing, initiating, continuing or terminating
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a pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity and expression?"
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