STATE OF NEW YORK
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5196
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 27, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
ratifying the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United
States relating to the labor of persons under eighteen years of age
1 WHEREAS, at the first session of the sixty-eighth Congress it was
2 resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
3 of America in Congress Assembled (two-thirds of each house concurring
4 therein), that the following article be proposed as an amendment to the
5 Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents
6 and purposes as a part of the said Constitution when ratified by the
7 Legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, viz.:
8 ARTICLE
9 Section 1. The Congress shall have the power to limit, regulate, and
10 prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age.
11 Section 2. The power of the several States is unimpaired by this arti-
12 cle except that the operation of State laws shall be suspended to the
13 extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the Congress.
14 Now, therefore, be it
15 RESOLVED, That the legislature of the State of New York does hereby
16 ratify the above recited proposed amendment to the Constitution of the
17 United States; and be it further,
18 RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be requested to transmit a
19 certified copy of this concurrent resolution to the Administrator of
20 General Services of the United States of America.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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