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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 59 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To end the practice of including more than one subject in a single bill |
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| 6 | 6 | | by requiring that each bill enacted by Congress be limited to only one |
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| 7 | 7 | | subject, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY9, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. P |
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| 11 | 11 | | AULintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to |
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| 12 | 12 | | the Committee on Rules and Administration |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To end the practice of including more than one subject |
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| 15 | 15 | | in a single bill by requiring that each bill enacted by |
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| 16 | 16 | | Congress be limited to only one subject, and for other |
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| 17 | 17 | | purposes. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘One Subject at a Time 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | Act’’. 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SEC. 2. ONE SUBJECT AT A TIME. 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) O |
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| 25 | 25 | | NESUBJECT.—Each bill or joint resolution 7 |
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| 26 | 26 | | shall embrace no more than one subject. 8 |
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| 29 | 29 | | •S 59 IS |
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| 30 | 30 | | (b) SUBJECT INTITLE.—The subject of a bill or joint 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | resolution shall be clearly and descriptively expressed in 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | the title. 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (c) A |
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| 34 | 34 | | PPROPRIATIONBILLS.—An appropriations bill 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | shall not contain any general legislation or change to a 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | provision of existing law, the subject of which is not ger-6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | mane to the subject matter of each such appropriations 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | bill. This section shall not be construed to prohibit any 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | provision imposing limitations upon the expenditure of 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | funds so appropriated. 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | SEC. 3. ENFORCEMENT. 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (a) M |
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| 43 | 43 | | ULTIPLESUBJECTS INTITLE.—If the title of 12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | an Act or joint resolution addresses two or more unrelated 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | subjects, the entire Act or joint resolution is void. 14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (b) P |
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| 47 | 47 | | ROVISIONSNOTEXPRESSED INTITLE.—If the 15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | title of an Act or joint resolution addresses a single sub-16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ject, but the Act contains one or more provisions con-17 |
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| 50 | 50 | | cerning a subject that is not clearly and descriptively ex-18 |
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| 51 | 51 | | pressed in its title, only such provision or provisions con-19 |
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| 52 | 52 | | cerning the subject not clearly and descriptively expressed 20 |
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| 53 | 53 | | in the title shall be void. 21 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (c) A |
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| 55 | 55 | | PPROPRIATION PROVISIONSOUTSIDESUB-22 |
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| 56 | 56 | | COMMITTEE JURISDICTION.—If an Act appropriating 23 |
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| 57 | 57 | | funds contains a provision outside of the jurisdiction of 24 |
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| 58 | 58 | | the relevant subcommittee of the Committees on Appro-25 |
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| 61 | 61 | | •S 59 IS |
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| 62 | 62 | | priations of the House of Representatives and of the Sen-1 |
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| 63 | 63 | | ate, and therefore outside the subject of the bill, such pro-2 |
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| 64 | 64 | | vision shall be void. 3 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (d) P |
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| 66 | 66 | | ROVISIONS OF APPROPRIATIONBILLSNOT 4 |
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| 67 | 67 | | G |
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| 68 | 68 | | ERMANE TO SUBJECTMATTER.—If an Act appro-5 |
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| 69 | 69 | | priating funds contains a provision of general legislation 6 |
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| 70 | 70 | | or a change of a provision of existing law not germane 7 |
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| 71 | 71 | | to the subject matter of such bill, such provision shall be 8 |
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| 72 | 72 | | void. 9 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (e) C |
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| 74 | 74 | | OMMENCEMENT OF AN ACTION.—Any person 10 |
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| 75 | 75 | | aggrieved by the enforcement of, or attempt or threat of 11 |
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| 76 | 76 | | enforcement of, an Act passed without having complied 12 |
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| 77 | 77 | | with section 2 or this section, or any Member of Congress 13 |
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| 78 | 78 | | aggrieved by the failure of the House of Congress of which 14 |
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| 79 | 79 | | that individual is a member to comply with any require-15 |
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| 80 | 80 | | ment of those sections, shall, regardless of the amount in 16 |
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| 81 | 81 | | controversy, have a cause of action under sections 2201 17 |
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| 82 | 82 | | and 2202 of title 28, United States Code, against the 18 |
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| 83 | 83 | | United States to seek appropriate relief, including an in-19 |
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| 84 | 84 | | junction against the enforcement of any law, the passage 20 |
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| 85 | 85 | | of which did not conform to section 2 or this section. 21 |
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| 86 | 86 | | (f) S |
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| 87 | 87 | | TATE OF REVIEW.—In any judicial action 22 |
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| 88 | 88 | | brought pursuant to subsection (e), the standard of review 23 |
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| 89 | 89 | | shall be de novo. 24 |
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