Single-Subject And The Supreme Court

This weeks' North Dakota Supreme Court decision that the OMB Budget violated "single-subject" outlines the danger of enacting rules that are not clearly defined: judges will do the defining.

North Dakota legislators got a lesson in “be careful what you wish for” this week when the North Dakota Supreme Court invalidated Senate Bill 2015 - the budget for the Office of Management and Budget - on the basis that it violated what is called “the one-subject rule”.

Some background: at the end of every legislative session, when there is a desire to…