Three-quarters of the states must ratify an amendment (38 out of 50).

The vote to ratify this amendment was held the following year; the ratification failed and the category remained.

The organization stated that they would no longer hold conferences in states that did not ratify the amendment, with the boycott measure set to take place in 1981.

Burn's vote broke the tie in favor of ratifying the amendment.

Twenty-eight had ratified the amendment by early 1937, but none have done so since.