Provisions
VI.24 proposed for 1939 • Publication of statutes.
REJECTED
The Text
The legislature shall provide for the speedy publication of all statutes and all civil or criminal practice acts and rules, and for the collection, compilation and publication annually of the civil and criminal judicial statistics of the state. It shall further provide for the creation of a state law reporting bureau, which shall be under the direction and control of an official state reporter, who shall be appointed and be removable by the court of appeals, and who shall be charged with the duty, as may be provided by law and directed by said court, of publishing official reports of the opinions or decisions of all the courts of the state. But all laws and judicial opinions or decisions shall nevertheless be free for publication by any person.
A Few Facts
• Has 128 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 5 of 1938
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1939
• Been in Article VI: Judiciary
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1926-VI.22
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