A RESOLUTION FOR the purpose of ratifying the Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution regarding the imposition

of poll taxes. WHEREAS, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the denial of the right to vote for failure to pay a poll tax or any other tax; and WHEREAS, the 24th Amendment passed the United States Senate on March 27, 1962, and then passed the United States House of Representatives on August 27, 1962; and WHEREAS, the 24th Amendment was subsequently ratified by a majority of the states, with Maine being the 37th state to ratify the amendment, on January 16, 1964; and WHEREAS, the requirement of the United States Constitution that any proposed constitutional amendment be approved by at least three-fourths of the states meant that the 24th Amendment would be adopted into the United States Constitution upon ratification by the 38th state; and WHEREAS, Senate Resolution 149 was introduced in the Georgia Senate on Tuesday, January 21, 1964, as a proposal to ratify the 24th Amendment, positioning Georgia to be the 38th state to ratify the amendment; and WHEREAS, the Georgia Senate voted 44-0 on Thursday, January 23, 1964 to adopt SR 149 and ratify the 24th Amendment; and WHEREAS, also on Thursday, January 23, 1964, the South Dakota Senate suspended its rules and rushed to approve the ratification of the 24th Amendment by a vote of 34-0; and WHEREAS, upon the approval of South Dakota, the 24th Amendment was thereafter ratified to become a part of the United States Constitution; and WHEREAS, the Georgia House subsequently failed to take any action upon the Georgia Senates resolution ratifying the amendment; and WHEREAS, following its formal ratification, the 24th Amendment was subsequently ratified by Virginia on February 25, 1977, North Carolina on May 3, 1989, Alabama on April 11, 2002, and Texas on May 22, 2009; and WHEREAS, having been denied the opportunity to be the state whose ratification would have adopted the 24th Amendment as part of the United States Constitution, and having not taken action to ratify it since, the State of Georgia now wishes to formally record its support for and ratify the Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, reading as follows:

Amendment XXIV Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GEORGIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY that the foregoing amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified by the State of Georgia as a part of the United States Constitution; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Pursuant to Public Law No. 98-497, the Georgia secretary of state shall notify the archivist of the United States of the action of the Georgia General Assembly, by forwarding to the archivist an official copy of this resolution. The Georgia secretary of state shall also forward official copies of this resolution to both United States senators from Georgia, to all United States representatives from Georgia, to the United States Secretary of State, to the vice president of the United States in his capacity as presiding officer of the United States Senate, and to the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, with the request that this resolution be printed in full in the Congressional Record.