Sentences with phrase «votes in a joint session»

Senators shall be elected exclusively by the State legislature, upon a majority vote of legislators present and voting in a joint session.

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After extensively debating the issues for two days, each committee approved a number of resolutions, which were again voted upon in a joint session of the student delegates during the third day of the conference.

On February 7, 2007, in a joint session of the New York State Legislature, DiNapoli was elected as New York State Comptroller, succeeding Alan Hevesi by a vote of 150 to 56.

State law empowers the Legislature to appoint a new attorney general in a joint session vote whenever there's a vacancy.

For an amendment to be placed before the voters as a referendum, a state constitutional convention, a joint meeting of both houses of the legislature sitting as one body, in each of two successive two - year legislative sessions, must provide the required number of votes.

Under current rules, lawmakers select them in a joint session, i.e., a vote by all 213 members of both chambers at once.

By law, the Assembly and state Senate must meet in a rare joint session to vote on the attorney general's successor.

If 21 members of the Senate and 81 members of the House of Representatives judge by vote taken by call of the yeas and nays that such assembling of the General Court is necessary, specifying in such vote the facts constituting such necessity, the General Court shall then complete its organization as a special session, proceed to the consideration of the suspension of Joint Rule 12A which if suspended by the required two - thirds of the members of both branches shall permit the General Court to proceed to the consideration of matters properly before it.