Provisions
III.3 proposed for 1916 • State divided into thirty-two senatorial districts — Boundaries thereof — Board of supervisors of the city of New York to divide the county into four Senate districts — Certificate, etc., to be filed.
REJECTED
The Text
The state shall be divided into fifty districts to be called senate districts, each of which shall choose one senator. The districts shall be numbered from one to fifty, inclusive. The senate districts shall remain as at present constituted until altered as hereinafter provided.
A Few Facts
• Has 44 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 5 of 1915
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1916
• Been in Article III: Legislature
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-III.3
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