Ballot Questions
1938
Question #1
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change the whole NYS constitution, except for certain provisions with separate ballot questions - as proposed by the 1938 NY constitutional convention
as proposed by the most recent NYS Constitutional Convention
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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53.88% |
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1,521,036 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
46.12% |
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1,301,797 New Yorkers voted No |
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2,822,833 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
XVI.4 proposed for 1939
Article XVI: Taxation • Section 4: Certain corporations not to be discriminated against.
Where the state has power to tax corporations incorporated under the laws of the United States there shall be no discrimination in the rates and method of taxation between such corporations and other corporations exercising substantially similar functions and engaged in substantially similar business within the state.
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Article XVI: Taxation • Section 5: Compensation of public officers and employees subject to taxation.
All salaries, wages and other compensation, except pensions, paid to officers and employees of the state and its subdivisions and agencies shall be subject to taxation.
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Article XVII: Social Welfare • Section 1: Public relief and care.
The aid, care and support of the needy are public concerns and shall be provided by the state and by such of its subdivisions, and in such manner and by such means, as the legislature may from time to time determine.
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Article XVII: Social Welfare • Section 2: State board of social welfare; powers and duties.
The state board of social welfare shall be continued. It shall visit and inspect, or cause to be visited and inspected by members of its staff, all public and private institutions, whether state, county, municipal, incorporated or not incorporated, which are in receipt of public funds and which are of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional or reformatory character, including all reformatories…
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Article XVII: Social Welfare • Section 3: Public health.
The protection and promotion of the health of the inhabitants of the state are matters of public concern and provision therefor shall be made by the state and by such of its subdivisions and in such manner, and by such means as the legislature shall from time to time determine.
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Article XVII: Social Welfare • Section 4: Care and treatment of persons suffering from mental disorder or defect; visitation of institutions for.
The care and treatment of persons suffering from mental disorder or defect and the protection of the mental health of the inhabitants of the state may be provided by state and local authorities and in such manner as the legislature may from time to time determine. The head of the department of mental hygiene shall visit and inspect, or cause…
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Article XVII: Social Welfare • Section 5: Institutions for detention of criminals; probation; parole; state commission of correction.
The legislature may provide for the maintenance and support of institutions for the detention of persons charged with or convicted of crime and for systems of probation and parole of persons convicted of crime. There shall be a state commission of correction, of which the head of the department of correction shall be the chairman, which shall visit and inspect,…
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Article XVII: Social Welfare • Section 6: Visitation and inspection.
Visitation and inspection as herein authorized, shall not be exclusive of other visitation and inspection now or hereafter authorized by law.
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Article XIX: Amendments to Constitution • Section 1: Amendments to constitution; how proposed, voted upon and ratified.
Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the senate and assembly, whereupon such amendment or amendments shall be referred to the attorney-general whose duty it shall be within twenty days thereafter to render an opinion in writing to the senate and assembly as to the effect of such amendment or amendments upon other provisions of the…
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Article XIX: Amendments to Constitution • Section 2: Future constitutional conventions; how called; election of delegates; compensation; quorum; submission of amendments; officers; employees; rules; vacancies.
At the general election to be held in the year nineteen hundred fifty-seven, and every twentieth year thereafter, and also at such times as the legislature may by law provide, the question “Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?” shall be submitted to and decided by the electors of the state; and in case…
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Article XIX: Amendments to Constitution • Section 3: Amendments simultaneously submitted by convention and legislature.
Any amendment proposed by a constitutional convention relating to the same subject as an amendment proposed by the legislature, coincidently submitted to the people for approval shall, if approved, be deemed to supersede the amendment so proposed by the legislature.
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Article XX: When To Take Effect • Section 1: Time of taking effect.
This constitution shall be in force from and including the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred thirty-nine, except as herein otherwise provided.
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Article Signature: • Section : Signature
Done in Convention at the Capitol in the city of Albany, the twenty-fifth day of August, in the year one thousand nine hundred thirty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-third. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names. Frederick E. Crane, President and Delegate-at-Large U.H. Boyden, Secretary
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