Ballot Questions
1931
Question #5
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change V.2, VIII.11, VIII.14, VIII.15 - to rename the state's Department of Charities as the Department of Social Welfare
as proposed by the NYS Legislature
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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68.96% |
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812,545 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
31.04% |
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365,804 New Yorkers voted No |
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1,178,349 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
V.2 proposed for 1932
Article V: State Officers; Civil Service • Section 2: Civil departments of state government.
There shall be the following civil departments in the state government: First, executive; seoond, audit and control; third, taxation and finance; fourth, law; fifth, state; sixth, public works; seventh, architecture; eighth, conservation; ninth, agriculture and markets; tenth, labor: eleventh, education; twelfth, health; thirteenth, mental hygiene; fourteenth, social welfare; fifteenth, correction; sixteenth, public service; seventeenth, banking; eighteenth, insurance; nineteenth, civil service;…
Read moreVIII.11 proposed for 1932
Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 11: State Board of Social Welfare.
The legislature shall provide for a state board of social welfare, which shall visit and inspect all institutions, whether state, county, municipal, incorporated, or not incorporated, which are of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional, or reformatory character, excepting state institutions for the education and support of the blind and the deaf and dumb, and excepting also such institutions as are hereby…
Read moreVIII.14 proposed for 1932
Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 14: Maintenance of charitable institutions.
Nothing in this constitution contained shall prevent the legislature from making such provision for the education and support of the blind, the deaf and dumb, and juvenile delinquents, as to it may seem proper; or prevent any county, city, town, or village from providing for the care, support, maintenance, and secular education, of inmates of orphan asylums, homes for dependent…
Read moreVIII.15 proposed for 1932
Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 15: Commissioners, terms of office, etc.
Commissioners of the state board of charities, now holding office, shall be continued in office as members of the state board of social welfare for the term for which they were appointed, respectively, unless the legislature shall otherwise provide. The legislature may confer upon the state board of social welfare any additional powers that are not inconsistent with other provisions…
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