Provisions
VIII.8 proposed for 1870 • No state aid to individuals or corporations; Three-fifths bills.
REJECTED
The Text
The credit of the State shall not be given or loaned to, or in aid of any individual, corporation or association. On the final passage in each house of the Legislature, of any act appropriating money or property, except for the purposes of government, the question shall be taken by yeas and nays, which shall be entered on the journal, and two-thirds of all the members elected to each house shall be necessary to pass the same.
A Few Facts
• Has 77 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1869
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1870
• Been in Article VIII:
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1847-VII.9
◦ 1847-VII.14
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