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Provisions

III.15 proposed for 1916 • Enacting clause of bills.

REJECTED

The Text

The enacting clause of all bills shall be “The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows,” and no law shall be enacted except by bill.


A Few Facts

• Has 34 words

• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 4 of 1915

If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:

• Joined the Constitution in 1916

• Been in Article III: Legislature

• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision

• Amended or built on:
1895-III.14


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