Provisions
III.17 proposed for 1916 • Restriction as to private and local bills.
REJECTED
The Text
No private or local bill, which may be passed by the legislature, shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.
A Few Facts
• Has 26 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
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-III.16
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