Indiana Const. art. 4, § 22 — Indiana Constitution / Article 4 / Section 22
The General Assembly shall not pass local or
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Section 22. The General Assembly shall not pass local or 
special laws: 
Providing for the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors; 
Regulating the practice in courts of justice; 
Providing for changing the venue in civil and criminal cases; 
Granting divorces; 
Changing the names of persons; 
Providing for laying out, opening, and working on, 
highways, and for the election or appointment of supervisors; 
Vacating roads, town plats, streets, alleys, and public 
squares; 
Summoning and empaneling grand and petit juries, and 
providing for their compensation; 
Regulating county and township business; 
Regulating the election of county and township officers and 
their compensation; 
Providing for the assessment and collection of taxes for 
State, county, township, or road purposes; 
Providing for the support of common schools, or the 
preservation of school funds; 
Relating to fees or salaries, except that the laws may be so 
made as to grade the compensation of officers in proportion to 
the population and the necessary services required; 
Relating to interest on money; 
Providing for opening and conducting elections of State, 

county, or township officers, and designating the places of voting; Providing for the sale of real estate belonging to minors or other persons laboring under legal disabilities, by executors, administrators, guardians, or trustees. (History: As Amended March 14, 1881; November 6, 1984). Section 23. In all the cases enumerated in the preceding section, and in all other cases where a general law can be made applicable, all laws shall be general, and of uniform operation throughout the State. Section 24. Provision may be made, by general law, for bringing suit against the State; but no special law authorizing such suit to be brought, or making compensation to any person claiming damages against the State, shall ever be passed. (History: As Amended November 6, 1984). Section 25. A majority of all the members elected to each House, shall be necessary to pass every bill or joint resolution; and all bills and joint resolutions so passed, shall be signed by the Presiding Officers of the respective Houses. Section 26. Anymember of either House shall have the right to protest, and to have his protest, with his reasons for dissent, entered on the journal. Section 27. Every statute shall be a public law, unless otherwise declared in the statute itself. Section 28. No act shall take effect, until the same shall have been published and circulated in the several counties of the State, by authority, except in case of emergency, which emergency shall be declared in the preamble, or in the body, of the law. Section 29. The members of the General Assembly shall receive for their services a compensation to be fixed by law; but no increase of compensation shall take effect during the session at which such increase may be made. (History:AsAmended November 3, 1970. The schedule adopted with the 1970 amendment to Article 4, Section 9 was stricken out by the November 6, 1984, amendment). Section 30. No Senator or Representative shall, during the

term for which he may have been elected, be eligible to any 
office, the election to which is vested in the General Assembly; 
nor shall he be appointed to any civil office of profit, which 
shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have 
been increased, during such term; but this latter provision shall 
not be construed to apply to any office elective by the People.