Provisions
III.10 of 1895 • Powers of each house.
APPROVED
The Text
A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business. Each house shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members; shall choose its own officers; and the senate shall choose a temporary president to preside in case of the absence or impeachment of the Lieutenant Governor, or when he shall refuse to act as president, or shall act as Governor.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1895
• In Article III: The Legislature
• Has 76 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1894
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1847-III.10
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