The vast majority of the New York State Bar Association's House of Delegates on Saturday voted in favor of holding a constitutional convention.

One hundred and eleven members of House of Delegates, the decision and policy-making arm of the association, voted in favor of revising the state constitution at a meeting in Cooperstown. Twenty-eight delegates opposed the proposal and one abstained.

Henry “Hank” Greenberg of Greenberg Traurig, who heads the bar's Committee on the New York State Constitution, said the state constitution is in “need of an overhaul.”