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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 21-977

THE GOVERNOR

GOVERNOR'S OFFICE

[51 Pa.B. 3435]
[Saturday, June 26, 2021]

PROCLAMATION

Constitutional Amendment; Article I

 Whereas, Joint Resolution No. 4 of 2020 and Joint Resolution No. 1 of 2021 proposed to amend Article I of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, related to the prohibition against denial or abridgement of equality of rights because of race and ethnicity, by adding a section to read:

§ 29. Prohibition against denial or abridgment of equality of rights because of race and ethnicity.

 Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania because of the race or ethnicity of the individual.

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 Whereas, Joint Resolution No. 4 of 2020 was agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each House of the General Assembly and published pursuant to Article XI, Section 1 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania; and

 Whereas, in the General Assembly next afterwards chosen, the aforesaid amendment to Article 1 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania was proposed in Joint Resolution No. 1 of 2021, which was agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each House of the General Assembly and published pursuant to Article XI, Section 1 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania; and

 Whereas, the aforesaid proposed amendment to Article I of the Constitution of Pennsylvania was submitted for approval to the qualified electors of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania pursuant to Article XI, Section 1 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania at a primary election held on May 18, 2021; and

 Whereas, the Secretary of the Commonwealth, pursuant to law, has certified to me that the aforesaid proposed amendment to Article I of the Constitution of Pennsylvania was approved by a majority of those voting thereon on the aforesaid day; and

 Whereas, Section 903 of Title 1 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes requires the Governor, upon receiving the aforesaid certification of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, to issue his proclamation indicating whether or not the proposed amendment to Article I of the Constitution of Pennsylvania has been adopted by a majority of the electors voting thereon on May 18, 2021.

 Now Therefore, I, Tom Wolf, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby proclaim that the aforesaid amendment to Article I of the Constitution of Pennsylvania was adopted by a majority of the electors voting thereon on May 18, 2021.

 Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the Commonwealth, at the City of Harrisburg, this fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord twothousand twenty-one and of the Commonwealth the two hundred and forty-fifth.

 

 Governor

 Attest:         

JONATHAN M. MARKS,
 
Deputy Secretary for Elections and Commissions

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 21-977. Filed for public inspection June 25, 2021, 9:00 a.m.]


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