Provisions
III.7 proposed for 1916 • Political year.
REJECTED
The Text
The political year and legislative term shall begin on the first day of January; and the legislature shall, every year, assemble on the first Wednesday in January.
A Few Facts
• Has 27 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-X.6
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