Bayh v. Indiana State Building & Construction Trades Council

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Governor Evan Bayh and other named defendants appeal the Lake Superior Court’s judgment enjoining enforcement of Indiana Code ch. 5-16-7, the Prevailing Wage Act, as amended by 1995 House Enrolled Acts 1598 and 1435. The trial court found that the 1995 amendments had been enacted in violation of Article IV, § 19 of the Indiana Constitution, which confines all acts, except those codifying, revising or rearranging the laws, “to one [1] subject and matters properly connected therewith.” It ordered the defendants to comply with the Prevailing Wage *177Act as it existed before…