Heatherly v. State

WYNN, Judge.

To pass constitutional muster, revenue bills must, inter alia, be “read three several times in each house of the General Assembly and passed three several readings, which readings shall have been on three different days.”1 Here, Plaintiffs argue that the trial court erred in holding that the North Carolina Education Lottery Act is not a revenue bill and thus was not required to be enacted under the mandated constitutional procedural requirements. Because we conclude that the Lottery Act was not a bill “enacted to raise money on the credit of the State, or to pledge the faith of…