Section 19.373. Proclamation of results of election

PROCLAMATION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT—ARTICLE I

WHEREAS, Joint Resolution No. 2 of the 1984 Session of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania proposed to amend Article I of the Constitution of Pennsylvania by adding a section prohibiting any denial or abridgement of rights because of an individual’s sex, the section to read as follows:
§ 28. Prohibition against denial or abridgement of equality of rights because of sex.

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania because of the sex of the individual; and

WHEREAS, The Joint Resolution was passed by two successive General Assemblies of Pennsylvania; and

WHEREAS, The proposed constitutional amendment was submitted for approval by the qualified electors of this Commonwealth at an election held on May 18, 1984; and

WHEREAS, The Secretary of the Commonwealth has certified to me that the proposed constitutional amendment was approved (disapproved) by the electorate on May 18, 1984;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Dick Thornburgh, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do proclaim and pronounce that the aforesaid constitutional amendment was (not) adopted by a majority of the electors voting thereon on May 18, 1984.
GIVEN under my hand and the Great Seal of the
Commonwealth, at the City of Harrisburg, this twenty-third day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four, and of the Commonwealth the one hundred ninth.

BY THE GOVERNOR:
William R. Davis DICK THORNBURGH

Secretary of the Commonwealth Governor