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
V.7 proposed for 1939
Article V: Officers And Civil Departments • Section 7: Membership in retirement systems; benefits not to be diminished nor impaired.
After July first, nineteen hundred forty, membership in any pension or retirement system of the state or of a civil division thereof shall be a contractual relationship, the benefits of which shall not be diminished or impaired.
Read moreVII.1 proposed for 1939
Article VII: State Finances • Section 1: Estimates by departments, the legislature and the judiciary of needed appropriations; hearings.
For the preparation of the budget, the head of each department of state government, except the legislature and judiciary, shall furnish the governor such estimates and information in such form and at such times as he may require, copies of which shall forthwith be furnished to the appropriate committees of the legislature. The governor shall hold hearings thereon at which…
Read moreVII.2 proposed for 1939
Article VII: State Finances • Section 2: Executive budget.
Annually, on or before the first day of February, the governor shall submit to the legislature a budget containing a complete plan of expenditures proposed to be made before the close of the ensuing fiscal year and all moneys and revenues estimated to be available therefor, together with an explanation of the basis of such estimates and recommendations as to…
Read moreVII.3 proposed for 1939
Article VII: State Finances • Section 3: Budget bills; appearances before legislature.
At the time of submitting the budget to the legislature the governor shall submit a bill or bills containing all the proposed appropriations and reappropriations included in the budget and the proposed legislation, if any, recommended therein. The governor may at any time within thirty days thereafter and, with the consent of the legislature, at any time before the adjournment…
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Article VII: State Finances • Section 4: Action on budget bills by legislature; effect thereof.
The legislature may not alter an appropriation bill submitted by the governor except to strike out or reduce items therein, but it may add thereto items of appropriation provided that such additions are stated separately and distinctly from the original items of the bill and refer each to a single object or purpose. None of the restrictions of this section,…
Read moreVII.5 proposed for 1939
Article VII: State Finances • Section 5: Restrictions on consideration of other appropriations.
Neither house of the legislature shall consider any other bill making an appropriation until all the appropriation bills submitted by the governor shall have been finally acted on by both houses, except on message from the governor certifying to the necessity of the immediate passage of such a bill.
Read moreVII.6 proposed for 1939
Article VII: State Finances • Section 6: Restrictions on content of appropriation bills.
Except for appropriations contained in the bills submitted by the governor and in a supplemental appropriation bill for the support of government, no appropriations shall be made except by separate bills each for a single object or purpose. All such bills and such supplemental appropriation bill shall be subject to the governor’s approval as provided in section 7 of article…
Read moreVII.7 proposed for 1939
Article VII: State Finances • Section 7: Appropriation bills.
No money shall ever be paid out of the state treasury or any of its funds, or any of the funds under its management, except in pursuance of an appropriation by law; nor unless such payment be made within two years next after the passage of such appropriation act; and every such law making a new appropriation or continuing or…
Read moreVII.9 proposed for 1939
Article VII: State Finances • Section 9: Short term state debts in anticipation of taxes, revenues and proceeds of sale of authorized bonds.
The state may contract debts in anticipation of the receipt of taxes and revenues, direct or indirect, for the purposes and within the amounts of appropriations theretofore made. Notes or other obligations for the moneys so borrowed shall be issued as may be provided by law, and shall with the interest thereon be paid from such taxes and revenues within…
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Article VII: State Finances • Section 10: State debts on account of invasion, insurrection, war and forest fires.
In addition to the above limited power to contract debts, the state may contract debts to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the state in war, or to suppress forest fires; but the money arising from the contracting of such debts shall be applied for the purpose for which it was raised, or to repay such debts, and to no…
Read moreVII.11 proposed for 1939
Article VII: State Finances • Section 11: State debts generally; manner of contracting; referendum.
Except the debts or refunding debts specified in sections 9 and 10 of this article, no debt shall be hereafter contracted by or in behalf of the state, unless such debt shall be authorized by law, for some single work or purpose, to be distinctly specified therein. No such law shall take effect until it shall, at a general election,…
Read moreVII.12 proposed for 1939
Article VII: State Finances • Section 12: State debts generally; how paid; restrictions on use of bond proceeds.
Except the debts specified in sections 9 and 10 of this article, all debts contracted by the state and each portion of any such debt from time to time so contracted shall be paid in equal annual installments, the first of which shall be payable not more than one year, and the last of which shall be payable not more…
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Article VII: State Finances • Section 13: Refund of state debts
The legislature may provide means and authority whereby any state debt may be refunded if, when it was contracted, the privilege to pay prior to the date payable was reserved to the state and provided that the debt as thus refunded shall be paid in equal annual installments which shall be not less in amount than the required annual installments…
Read moreVII.15 proposed for 1939
Article VII: State Finances • Section 15: Sinking funds; how kept and invested; income therefrom and application thereof
The sinking funds provided for the payment of interest and the extinguishment of the principal of the debts of the state heretofore contracted shall be continued; they shall be separately kept and safely invested, and neither of them shall be appropriated or used in any manner other than for such payment and extinguishment as hereinafter provided. The comptroller shall each…
Read moreVII.16 proposed for 1939
Article VII: State Finances • Section 16: Payment of state debts; when comptroller to pay without appropriation.
The legislature shall annually provide by appropriation for the payment of the interest upon and installments of principal of all debts created on behalf of the state except those contracted under section 9 of this article, as the same shall fall due, and for the contribution to all of the sinking funds heretofore created by law, of the amounts annually…
Read moreVIII.1 proposed for 1939
Article VIII: Local Finances • Section 1: Gift or loan of property or credit of local subdivisions prohibited; exceptions for enumerated purposes.
No county, city, town, village or school district shall give or loan any money or property to or in aid of any individual, or private corporation or association, or private undertaking, or become directly or indirectly the owner of stock in, or bonds of, any private corporation or association; nor shall any county, city, town, village or school district give…
Read moreVIII.2 proposed for 1939
Article VIII: Local Finances • Section 2: Restrictions on indebtedness of local subdivisions; contracting and payment of local indebtedness; exceptions.
No county, city, town, village or school district shall contract any indebtedness except for county, city, town, village or school district purposes, respectively. No indebtedness shall be contracted for longer than the period of probable usefulness of the object or purpose for which such indebtedness is to be contracted, to be determined by or pursuant to general or special laws,…
Read moreVIII.3 proposed for 1939
Article VIII: Local Finances • Section 3: Restrictions on creation and indebtedness of certain corporations.
No municipal or other corporation (other than a county, city, town, village, school district or fire district, or a river improvement, river regulating, or drainage district, established by or under the supervision of the department of conservation) possessing the power (a) to contract indebtedness and (b) to levy taxes or benefit assessments upon real estate or to require the levy…
Read moreVIII.4 proposed for 1939
Article VIII: Local Finances • Section 4: Limitations on local indebtedness.
Except as otherwise provided in this article, no county, city, town or village shall be allowed to contract indebtedness for any purpose or in any manner to an amount which, including existing indebtedness, shall exceed ten per centum of the average assessed valuation of the real estate of such county, city, town or village subject to taxation, as determined by…
Read moreVIII.5 proposed for 1939
Article VIII: Local Finances • Section 5: Ascertainment of debt-incurring power of counties, cities, towns and villages; certain indebtedness to be excluded.
In ascertaining the power of a county, city, town or village to contract indebtedness, there shall be excluded: A. Certificates or other evidences of indebtedness issued in any fiscal year in anticipation of (a) the collection of taxes on real estate for amounts theretofore actually levied and uncollected or to be levied in such year and payable out of such…
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