Senate Bill No. 1738 was read and passed in the Senate on three different days. If it were not such a 'bill' then it has not been read and passed in the Senate on three different days and is invalid. We have not been cited, nor by research found, a case directly in point on the issue here. Pitts v. Nashville Baseball Club, Supra.
Every bill has two parts, the title and the body.
The title must contain the subject of the proposed legislation, and that subject must be single. This was intended to serve a two-fold purpose. The subject must be expressed in the title, so that the members of the Legislature may have their attention drawn directly to the matter about which they are to concern themselves in the discharge of their legislative duties. A second purpose is that the people of the State may know what their representatives are doing, and may interpose, if they choose, by petition or remonstrance. We think the two purposes served by the title as set out in State ex rel.