Fiscal impacts would depend primarily on the composition and actions of future Legislatures.

To fix irrevocably on the people this oligarchy in the name of free institutions so that no future Legislature can reform it even by absolute majority.

In 1799, the Legislature enacted that future Legislatures meet on the last Tuesday of January of each year unless called earlier by the governor.

In addition, it would have strengthened the hand of the Legislature in budget-making, and Governor Pataki complained that it would encourage future Legislatures to ignore future governors and pass their own spending plans.

Unknown net state fiscal effects, which will vary year by year and depend in part on actions of future Legislatures.

All those details, of course, would hinge on future Legislatures continuing the commitment made by this one - a plan that is one of the most ambitious in any state.