Ballot Questions
1927
Question #1
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to add IV-A.1, IV-A.2, IV-A.3, IV-A.4 - to establish the state budget process
as proposed by the NYS Legislature
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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74.33% |
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1,291,990 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
25.67% |
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446,107 New Yorkers voted No |
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1,738,097 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.
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Note: When voters approved of provisions, the new changes take effect on January 1st of the year after the question's appearance on the ballot
IV-A.1 proposed for 1928
Article IV-A: • Section 1: Heads of departments to submit budget requests to governor.
On or before the fifteenth day of October in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-eight and in each year thereafter the head of each department of the state government, except the legislature and judiciary, shall submit to the governor itemized estimates of appropriations to meet the financial needs of such department, including a statement in detail of all moneys for…
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Article IV-A: • Section 2: Governor to submit budget proposal to legislature.
On or before the fifteenth day of January next succeeding (except in the case of a newly elected governor and then on or before the first day of February) he shall submit to the legislature a budget containing a complete plan of proposed expenditures and estimated revenues. It shall contain all the estimates so revised or certified and clearly itemized,…
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Article IV-A: • Section 3: Governor and heads of departments to be heard by legislature re appropriations.
The governor and the heads of departments shall have the right, and it shall be the duty of the heads of departments when requested by either house of the legislature, to appear and be heard in respect to the budget during the consideration thereof, and to answer inquiries relevant thereto. The procedure for such appearance and inquiries shall be provided…
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Article IV-A: • Section 4: Legislature may propose appropriations after action on governor's bills.
Neither house shall consider further appropriations until the appropriation bills proposed by the governor shall have been finally acted on by both houses; nor shall such further appropriations be then made except by separate bills each for a single work or object, which bills shall be subject to the governor’s approval as provided in section nine of article four. Nothing…
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