PRINTER'S NO. 590
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
651
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY KINSEY, KIM, MADDEN, HOHENSTEIN, CIRESI, SANCHEZ,
HILL-EVANS, DELLOSO, BULLOCK, GUENST, PROBST, SHUSTERMAN,
GIRAL, D. WILLIAMS, STEELE AND CONKLIN, MARCH 21, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 21, 2023
AN ACT
Providing for the designation of the lawn of the Speaker K.
Leroy Irvis Office Building within the Pennsylvania State
Capitol Complex in Harrisburg as the "Irvis Equality Circle."
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Purposes.
The purposes of this act are to celebrate:
(1) The 153rd anniversary of the ratification of the
15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States,
which was ratified on February 3, 1870, and which prohibits
the Federal Government and any state from denying a citizen
the right to vote on the basis of race, color or previous
condition of servitude.
(2) The 103rd anniversary of the ratification of the
19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States,
which was ratified August 18, 1920, and which prohibits the
Federal Government and any state from denying a citizen the
right to vote on the basis of sex.
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