Senate Journal: Page 174: Thursday, January 30, 1997

  174 JOURNAL OF THE SENATE 18th Day
  Senator Lundby moved that the resolution be read the last time
  now and placed upon its passage, which motion prevailed by a voice
  vote, and the resolution was read the last time.

  House Joint Resolution 5, a joint resolution proposing an
  amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the
  equality of rights of men and women under the law.

  BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE
  OF IOWA:

  Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of the
  State of Iowa is proposed.
  Section 1 of Article I of the Constitution of the State of Iowa, is
  amended to read as follows:
  RIGHTS OF PERSONS. Section 1. All men  and women   are, by
  nature, free and equal, and have certain inalienable rights - among
  which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring,
  possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining
  safety and happiness.
  Sec. 2. The foregoing proposed amendment, having been adopted
  and agreed to by the Seventy-sixth General Assembly, 1995 Session,
  thereafter duly published, and now adopted and agreed to by the
  Seventy-seventh General Assembly in this joint resolution, shall be
  submitted to the people of the State of Iowa at the general election in
  November of the year nineteen hundred ninety-eight in the manner
  required by the Constitution of the State of Iowa and the laws of the
  State of Iowa.

  On the question "Shall the resolution pass?" (H.J.R. 5) the vote was:

  Yeas, 48:

  Angelo Bartz Behn Black, D.
  Black, J. Boettger Borlaug Connolly
  Dearden Deluhery Douglas Drake
  Dvorsky Fink Flynn Fraise
  Freeman Gettings Gronstal Halvorson
  Hammond Hansen Horn Iverson
  Jensen Judge Kibbie  King
  Kramer Lind Lundby Maddox
  McKean McKibben McLaren Neuhauser
  Palmer Redfern Redwine Rehberg

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