Morin v. Harrell

¶1 Article II, section 19 of our constitution provides that “[n]o bill shall embrace more than one subject” and requires that the subject “shall be *228expressed in the title.”1 Violation of either the single subject rule or the subject in title rule exposes a law to constitutional challenge.2 However, such a challenge is precluded when the allegedly constitutionally infirm legislation has been subsequently reenacted or amended pursuant to properly titled legislation. Such amendment or reenactment cures the article II, section 19 defect.3

J.M. Johnson, J.

*228¶2 In the present case, Clarence and Hazel…