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SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 106

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SJM106.....................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
CONGRESSIONAL BILLS - Requesting an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States to limit bills before Congress to a single subject.

02/19    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/20    Rpt prt - to 10th Ord
02/24    10th ord - ADOPTED, voice vote
    Title apvd - to House
02/25    House intro - 1st rdg - to St Aff
03/13    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/16    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/17    3rd rdg - ADOPTED, voice vote - to Senate
03/18    To enrol
03/19    Rpt enrol - Pres signed - Sp signed
03/20    To Secretary of State

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SJM106


                                                                        
 ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
Fifty-fourth Legislature                 Second Regular Session - 1998
                                                                        

                                      IN THE SENATE

                              SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 106

                                BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

 1                                   A JOINT MEMORIAL
 2    TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED  STATES  IN  CONGRESS
 3        ASSEMBLED,  AND  TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF
 4        IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.

 5        We, your Memorialists, the Senate and the House of Representatives of  the
 6    State  of  Idaho  assembled  in the Second Regular Session of the Fifty-fourth
 7    Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:

 8        WHEREAS, the vast majority of the individual states of the  United  States
 9    have constitutional provisions which require legislative bills to consist of a
10    single subject; and
11        WHEREAS,  this  provision  has proven to be a vital safeguard of citizens'
12    rights and citizens' awareness of pending legislation; and
13        WHEREAS, what has proven to be so successful with the vast majority of our
14    states, the bulwark of republican government, should work equally well for the
15    national government.
16        NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Second  Regular  Ses-
17    sion of the Fifty-fourth Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of Repre-
18    sentatives  concurring  therein,  that we urgently request the Congress of the
19    United States to immediately prepare a proposed  constitutional  amendment  to
20    the Constitution of the United States to limit congressional bills to a single
21    subject,  except  for  recodification  measures,  and  to submit such proposed
22    amendment to the several states for ratification.
23        BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate  be,  and  she  is
24    hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to the Pres-
25    ident  of  the  Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Con-
26    gress, to the congressional delegation representing the State of Idaho in  the
27    Congress  of the United States, and to the presiding officers of each House of
28    each state of these United States.