Opinion ID: 1408762
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Heading Rank: 6

Heading: sufficiency of title of act

Text: [9] Defendant contends that the title of the act was insufficient to give notice of its contents as required by Const. art. 2, § 19, which provides: No bill shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title. The title of Laws of 1982, ch. 129, begins Child Abuse  Admissibility of Child's Statement. The test of the title's sufficiency is whether it provides sufficient notice to lead an interested person to inquire into the bill's contents. State v. Lounsbery, 74 Wn.2d 659, 664-65, 445 P.2d 1017 (1968). The title of the present act was clearly sufficient to put the public on inquiry, and evidences a rational unity between the general subject and its contents. See Barde v. State, 90 Wn.2d 470, 584 P.2d 390 (1978).