Article XXXI, Washington State Constitution

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Amendments

Article XXXI of the Washington State Constitution is labeled Sex Equality - Rights and Responsibilities. It includes sections 1 and 2, for a total of two sections.

Article XXXI has been amended one time, in 1972.

• Washington Gender Equality, HJR 61 (1972)

Section 1

	Text of Section 1: Equality Not Denied Because of Sex. Equality of rights and responsibility under the law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex.

Section 2

	Text of Section 2: Enforcement Power of Legislature. The legislature shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Amendments

• Constitutional Amendment 61, approved on November, 1972.

The name of this Article and the captions have been supplied by the reviser.

See also

• State constitution
• Constitutional article
• Constitutional amendment
• Constitutional revision
• Constitutional convention
• Amendments
  • Initiated constitutional amendment
  • Legislatively-referred constitutional amendment
  • Publication requirements for proposed state constitutional amendments
  • Rules about constitutional conventions in state constitutions
  • State constitutional articles governing state legislatures

External links

Suggest a link

• Washington State Legislature, "Washington Constitution"
• Washington State SOS, "The Origin of the Constitution of the State of Washington"

Additional reading

• Utter, Robert F., and Hugh D. Spitzer. (2002). The Washington State Constitution: A Reference Guide, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing
• Utter, Robert F., and Hugh D. Spitzer. (2013). The Washington State Constitution, New York, New York: Oxford University Press