Provisions
III.2 proposed for 1942 • Senate, number of — Assembly, number of.
REJECTED
The Text
The senate shall consist of fifty members, except as hereinafter provided. The assembly shall consist of one hundred and fifty members. The terms of office of senators and members of assembly elected in the year one nineteen hundred forty shall be two years. The senators elected in the year nineteen hundred forty-two, and their successors, shall be chosen for four years. The members of assembly elected in the year nineteen hundred forty-two, and their successors, shall be chosen for two years.
A Few Facts
• Has 81 words
• Was proposed by the Legislature
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 2 of 1941
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1942
• Been in Article III: Legislature
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1938-III.2
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