Minnesota Gender Equality Amendment (2016)
| Minnesota Gender Equality Amendment | |
|---|---|
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| Election date November 8, 2016 | |
| Topic Constitutional rights | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type | Origin |
The Minnesota Gender Equality Amendment was not on the November 8, 2016, ballot in Minnesota as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The measure would have provided that people have equal rights under the law regardless of their gender.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The proposed ballot title was:[1]
| “ | Equal Rights Amendment Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to provide that equality under the law must not be abridged or denied on account of gender? |
” |
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article I, Minnesota Constitution
The proposed amendment would have added a Section 18 to Article I of the Minnesota Constitution. The following text would have been added by the proposed measure's approval:[1]
Support
The following state legislators sponsored the amendment:[3]
- Rep. Phyllis Kahn (D-60B)
- Rep. Paul Thissen (D-61B)
- Rep. Jerry Newton (D-37A)
- Rep. Jennifer Schultz (D-7A)
- Rep. Kim Norton (D-25B)
- Rep. Ryan Winkler (D-46A)
- Rep. Jim Davnie (D-63A)
- Rep. Karen Clark (D-62A)
- Rep. Ron Erhardt (D-49A)
- Rep. Lyndon Carlson (D-45A)
- Rep. Barb Yarusso (D-42A)
- Rep. Frank Hornstein (D-61A)
- Rep. Cheryl Youakim (D-46B)
- Rep. Sheldon Johnson (D-67B)
- Rep. Alice Hausman (D-66A)
- Rep. Laurie Halverson (D-51B)
- Rep. Erin Murphy (D-64A)
- Rep. Linda Slocum (D-50A)
- Rep. JoAnn Ward (D-53A)
- Rep. Sandra Masin (D-51A)
- Rep. David Bly (D-20B)
- Rep. Joe Mullery (D-59A)
- Rep. Mike Freiberg (D-45B)
- Rep. Tina Liebling (D-26A)
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the Minnesota Constitution
A simple majority vote in both chambers of the Minnesota State Legislature was required to refer this amendment to the ballot.
Similar measures
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Minnesota Legislature, "HF 165," accessed February 3, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "quotedisclaimer" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Minnesota Legislature, "HF 165 Status," accessed February 3, 2015
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