Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to end the practice of including more than one subject in a single law by requiring that each law enacted by Congress be limited to only one subject and that the subject be clearly and descriptively expressed in the title of the law.

Constitutional Amendment

This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment requiring (1) each bill, order, resolution, or vote that must be submitted to the President to embrace no more than one subject; and (2) such subject to be clearly and descriptively expressed in the title of the bill, order, resolution, or vote.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 15 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 15

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to end 
  the practice of including more than one subject in a single law by 
  requiring that each law enacted by Congress be limited to only one 
subject and that the subject be clearly and descriptively expressed in 
                         the title of the law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2019

Mr. Marino submitted the following joint resolution; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to end 
  the practice of including more than one subject in a single law by 
  requiring that each law enacted by Congress be limited to only one 
subject and that the subject be clearly and descriptively expressed in 
                         the title of the law.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled   (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article--

    ``Each bill, order, resolution, or vote which must be submitted to 
the President under section 7 of article I of this Constitution shall 
embrace no more than one subject and that subject shall be clearly and 
descriptively expressed in the title of the bill, order, resolution or 
vote.''.
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