Independent Community Bankers Ass'n of South Dakota v. State Ex Rel. Meierhenry

HENDERSON,

Justice (dissenting).

I join in Justice - Dunn’s dissent which would strike down Senate Bill 256 of the 1983 South Dakota Session Laws as being unconstitutional as it violates Article III, § 21 of the South Dakota Constitution. Senate Bill 256 clearly embraces more than one subject for it amends four separate and distinct, pre-existing original acts. These *747original acts, sought to be amended, pertain to (1) bank holding companies, (2) ownership of banks, (3) taxation of banks, and (4) taxation of insurance companies. The State of South Dakota fought like a tiger to spread before this…