2020 Proposal #20: Updating New York’s Equal Rights Amendment
By Ali Hibbs Albany, N.Y. — The governor has announced the twentieth proposal to be included in his 2020 State of the State agenda, which he will present in its entirety on January 8: passing an inclusive Equal Rights Amendment that establishes sex, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes under the New York State Constitution. "In New