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| 5 | 5 | | 2023 -- S 0422 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LC001353 |
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| 9 | 9 | | S TATE OF RHODE IS LAND |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 11 | 11 | | JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2023 |
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| 12 | 12 | | ____________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | J O I N T R E S O L U T I O N |
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| 15 | 15 | | RATIFYING THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT T O THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED |
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| 16 | 16 | | STATES RELATING TO THE LABOR OF PERSONS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE |
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| 17 | 17 | | Introduced By: Senators Acosta, Zurier, DiPalma, Kallman, Ujifusa, Murray, Valverde, |
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| 18 | 18 | | LaMountain, Euer, and Britto |
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| 19 | 19 | | Date Introduced: February 16, 2023 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Referred To: Senate Labor |
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| 23 | 23 | | WHEREAS, at the first session of the sixty-eighth Congress it was resolved by the Senate 1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled (two-thirds 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | of each house concurring therein), that the following article be proposed as an amendment to the 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | said Constitution when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, viz.: 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | ARTICLE 6 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Section 1. The Congress shall have the power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of 7 |
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| 30 | 30 | | persons under eighteen years of age. 8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Section 2. The Power of the several States is unimpaired by this article except that the 9 |
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| 32 | 32 | | operation of State laws shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation 10 |
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| 33 | 33 | | enacted by the Congress. 11 |
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| 34 | 34 | | Now, therefore, be it 12 |
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| 35 | 35 | | RESOLVED, That the legislature of the State of Rhode Island does hereby ratify the 13 |
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| 36 | 36 | | above recited proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and be it further, 14 |
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| 37 | 37 | | RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be requested to transmit a certified copy of this 15 |
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| 38 | 38 | | concurrent resolution to the Administrator of General Services of the United States of America. 16 |
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| 40 | 40 | | LC001353 |
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| 44 | 44 | | LC001353 - Page 2 of 2 |
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| 45 | 45 | | EXPLANATION |
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| 46 | 46 | | BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL |
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| 47 | 47 | | OF |
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| 48 | 48 | | J O I N T R E S O L U T I O N |
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| 49 | 49 | | RATIFYING THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED |
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| 50 | 50 | | STATES RELATING TO THE LABOR OF PERSONS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE |
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| 51 | 51 | | *** |
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| 52 | 52 | | This Joint Resolution would ratify a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the 1 |
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| 53 | 53 | | United States which would provide that the Congress of the United States would have the power 2 |
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| 54 | 54 | | to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen (18) years of age. 3 |
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| 56 | 56 | | LC001353 |
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