Provisions
III.16 proposed for 1916 • Assent of a majority of all the members required, etc.
REJECTED
The Text
No bill shall be passed or become a law unless it shall have been printed and upon the desks of the members, in its final form, at least three calendar legislative days prior to its final passage. No bill shall be passed or become a law, except by the assent of a majority of the members elected to each branch of the legislature. Immediately after the last reading of a bill the question upon its final passage shall be taken and the yeas and nays entered on the journal.
A Few Facts
• Has 89 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 4 of 1915
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1916
• Been in Article III: Legislature
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-III.15
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