Texas Constitution Art. 3 sec. 35 – Subjects and Titles of Bills
Current as of: 2023 |
(a) No bill, (except general appropriation bills, which may embrace the various subjects and accounts, for and on account of which moneys are appropriated) shall contain more than one subject.
(b) The rules of procedure of each house shall require that the subject of each bill be expressed in its title in a manner that gives the legislature and the public reasonable notice of that subject. The legislature is solely responsible for determining compliance with the rule.
Terms Used In Texas Constitution Art. 3 sec. 35
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
(c) A law, including a law enacted before the effective date of this subsection, may not be held void on the basis of an insufficient title.