Const 1963, art 4, § 24;
No law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be expressed in its title. No bill shall be altered or amended on its passage through either house so as to change its original purpose as determined by its total content and not alone by its title.
Const 1908, art 5, §§ 21 & 22;
§ 21: No law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be expressed in its title. No law shall be revised, altered or amended by reference to its title only; but the act revised and the section or sections of the act altered or amended shall be re-enacted and published at length. No act shall take effect or be in force until the expiration of ninety days from the end of the session at which the same is passed, except that the legislature may give immediate effect to acts making appropriations and acts immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health or safety by a two-thirds vote of the members elected to each house.
§ 22: No bill shall be passed or become a law at any regular session of the legislature until it has been printed and in the possession of each house for at least five days. No bill shall be passed at a special session of the legislature on any other subjects than those expressly stated in the governor’s proclamation or submitted by special message. No bill shall be altered or amended on its passage through either house so as to change its original purpose.
See also: Const 1963, art 4, § 25, art 4, § 26, art 4, § 27, and art 4, § 28
Const 1874, art 4, § 19;
No law shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title. No law shall be revised, altered or amended, by reference to its title only, but the act revised, and the section or sections of the act altered or amended, shall be re-enacted and published at length. No public act shall take effect or be in force until the expiration of ninety days from the end of the session at which the same is passed, unless the Legislature shall otherwise direct, by a two-thirds vote of the members elected to each House, such vote to be taken by yeas and nays if demanded by any member.
See also: Const 1963, art 4, § 25 and art 4, § 27
Const 1868, art 5, § 20;
No law shall embrace more than one general object, which shall be expressed in its title. No public act shall take effect or be in force until the expiration of ninety days from the end of the session at which the same is passed, unless the Legislature shall otherwise direct, by a two-thirds vote of the members elected to each House.
See also: Const 1963, art 4, § 27
No law shall embrace more than one general object, which shall be expressed in its title. No public act shall take effect or be in force until the expiration of ninety days from the end of the session at which the same is passed, unless the Legislature shall otherwise direct, by a two-thirds vote of the members elected to each House.
See also: Const 1963, art 4, § 27
Const 1850, art 4, § 20;
No law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be expressed in its title. No public act shall take effect or be in force until the expiration of ninety days from the end of the session at which the same is passed, unless the Legislature shall otherwise direct, by a two-thirds vote of the members elected to each house.
See also: Const 1963, art 4, § 27
Const 1835, amendment II;
That the constitution of this state be so amended, that every law authorizing the borrowing of money or the issuing of state stocks, whereby a debt shall be created on the credit of the state, shall specify the object for which the money shall be appropriated; and that every such law shall embrace no more than one such object, which shall be submitted to the people at the next general election, and be approved by a majority of the votes cast for and against it at such election; that all money to be raised by the authority of such law be applied to the specific object stated in such law, and to no other purpose except the payment of such debt thereby created. This provision shall not extend or apply to any law to raise money for defraying the actual expenses of the legislature, the judicial and state officers, for suppressing insurrection, repelling invasion, or defending the state in time of war.
See also: Const 1963, art 9, § 14, art 9, § 15, and schedule, § 13
