The Constitution of 23 April 1935 gave the President of the Republic a superior position in the State, at the same time diminishing the role of the legislature and limiting its scope of responsibility. The number of deputies to the Sejm was reduced from 444 to 208. Internal organization of the Sejm and its procedural regulations were specified in the Rules of Procedure of 5 October 1935. The list of internal bodies of the Sejm included: the Marshal [Speaker] of the Sejm, Vice-Marshals, Sejm Committees, secretaries and the Marshal's Court. Marshals of the Sejm, who performed management function, were elected for a 5-year term of office. Committees were appointed for the period of a current ordinary session, and not for the entire legislative term. The Sejm performed legislative, financial, supervising and electoral functions. The right to submit bills belonged to the government and individual deputies and, since 1938, to a group of 15 deputies. The work on consideration of a bill was carried out in three readings and, after that, the bill was referred to the Senate which was obliged to give its position thereto, and then - returned to the Sejm. The Sejm was able to reject the position of the Senate by a three-fifth majority of votes. The bill became an act of parliament (statute) upon being signed by the President of the Republic who had the right to veto it.. President's veto might be overridden by re-adoption of the bill by a majority of votes of the statutory number of deputies and senators. The financial function included adoption of the Budget and statutes concerning the contracting of state loan, imposition of taxes, establishing the tariffs and monopolies. The supervising function was performed by making the government and its members accountable to the Sejm, by granting approval to the government's accounts [discharge], by deputies' interpellations, resolutions and by the activity of the Committee on Supervision of State Debt. The electoral function consisted in the participation of the Sejm in the process of selection of a new President of the Republic and in the appointment of judges of the Tribunal of State by the President of the Republic
