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.

Bill: 114-hjres-40
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Marino, Tom [R-PA-10]
Introduced: 2015-03-26
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments

Legislative rules and procedure
Latest action: action_date: 2015-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-03-26
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Constitutional Amendment</b></p> <p> Requires each bill, order, resolution, or vote that must be submitted to the President under the U.S. Constitution to embrace no more than one subject. Requires the subject to be clearly and descriptively expressed in the title of the bill, order, resolution, or vote.</p>

tv_txt: IA 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. J. RES. 40 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 26, 2015 Mr. Marino introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 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.

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:  — 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. .