[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 53 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 53

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
   prohibit bills and resolutions from containing more than a single 
           subject when they are presented to the President.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

Mr. Zimmer (for himself, Mr. Franks of New Jersey, Mr. Castle, and Mr. 
   Rohrabacher) introduced 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 
   prohibit bills and resolutions from containing more than a single 
           subject when they are presented to the President.

    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 for 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 by the Congress:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. No bill or joint resolution containing more than a 
single subject shall be presented to the President, and the single 
subject of any bill or joint resolution shall be expressed in the title 
when its presented to the President.
    ``Section 2. The provisions of section 1 shall not apply to a bill 
or joint resolution that compiles, consolidates, revises, or rearranges 
the statutory law.''.

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