Davis v. Grover

Felmers 0. Chaney and others appeal from a judgment 1 declaring that sec. 119.23, Stats., 2 does not violate the Wisconsin Constitution. The statute, which.provides a state subsidy for certain low-income Milwaukee children to attend private schools, was enacted as part of the 1989 state budget adjustment bill. We reverse the judgment because enactment of sec. 119.23 as part of a multi-subject bill violated art. IV, sec. 18, of the Wisconsin Constitution, which provides: "No private or local bill which may be passed by the legislature shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be…