Opinion No. (1977)

REQUESTED BY: Dear Senator:

You have requested the opinion of this office concerning whether the titles to LBs 39, 40 and 41 adequately express the subject contained in those bills the meaning of Article III, Section 14 of the Nebraska Constitution.

Section 14 of Article III of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska requires in part that:

". . . No bill shall contain more than one subject, and the same shall be clearly expressed in the title. . . ."

The Nebraska Supreme Court in Duerfeldt v. State, 184 Neb. 242,166 N.W.2d 737 (1969) stated:

". . . `Where the title of an act fairly gives…