Provisions
VIII.25 proposed for 1916 • Publication of statutes to be provided for.
REJECTED
The Text
The legislature shall provide for the speedy publication of all statutes, civil practice rules and rules of court, and the collection, compilation and publication annually of the civil and criminal judicial statistics of the state, and shall regulate the reporting of the decisions of the courts; but all laws and judicial decisions shall be free for publication by any person.
A Few Facts
• Has 60 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 VIII: Judiciary
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-VI.21
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