Carmack v. Director, Missouri Department of Agriculture

ROBERTSON, Judge.

“No bill shall contain more than one subject which shall be clearly expressed in its title.” Mo. Const, art. Ill, sec. 23 (“section 23”). In this case we consider whether the general assembly violated section 23 when a bill bearing the title “relating to economic development” contained, among its 102 statutory amendments or additions, amendments to section 267.610, RSMo, changing the indemnification paid to owners upon the destruction of their livestock carrying highly contagious or communicable or infectious disease.

We have jurisdiction. Mo. Const, art. V, sec. 3. We…