[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 122 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. J. RES. 122

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

                             July 31, 2014

    Mr. Marino 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 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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