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This Joint Resolution urges the current U.S. Administration, led by President Joseph R. Biden, to officially publish the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution without delay, and it also calls on the U.S. Congress to pass its own joint resolution affirming the ERA as the 28th Amendment. The resolution emphasizes that the ERA, which states that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex, has met the constitutional requirements for ratification by three-fourths of the states, despite a time limit initially included in the preamble of the 1972 Congressional resolution, not the amendment text itself, which the resolution argues is invalid. The resolution also encourages other states to adopt similar measures to support the ERA's formal recognition.