Legal Opinion
Attorney General Opinion No.
Kansas Attorney General Reports
Decided January 23, 2009Published
1Opinion of the Court
John Vratil
State Senator, 11th District
State Capitol, Room 281-E
Topeka, Kansas 66612
Dear Senator Vratil:
You inquire whether three provisos1 included in the 2008 omnibus appropriations bill, 2008 SB 534, 2 violate the constitutional prohibition on multiple subjects in bills, Article 2, Section 16 of the Kansas Constitution. This prohibition provides, in part:
"No bill shall contain more than one subject, except appropriations bills. . . . [T]he subject of each bill shall be expressed in its title. [T]he provisions of this section shall be liberally construed to effectuate the acts of the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Cox v. HartSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- State v. BarrettSupreme Court of Kansas · 1882
- Unified School District No. 229 v. StateSupreme Court of Kansas · 1994
- Shrout v. RinkerSupreme Court of Kansas · 1938
- Garden City Country Club v. Commercial Turf Irrigation, Inc.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1981
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