HOME BUILDERS OF ASS'N OF GREATER ST. LOUIS v. State

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.

In 2000, the Missouri General Assembly adopted “An Act To repeal [51 specified sections] ... relating to property ownership, and to enact in lieu thereof seventy new sections relating to the same subject, with penalty provisions_” (“SB 894”). Home Builders Association of Greater St. Louis, Inc. (“Home Builders”) sought to have SB 894 declared unconstitutional as violating article III, sections 21 and 23 of the Missouri Constitution, which require that the original purpose of a bill not be changed, that the bill have a single subject and that the subject be clearly…