Article XXIV
No act of the Legislature shall embrace more than one subject and that shall be expressed in the title. However, if any subject shall be embraced in an act which is not so expressed, the act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be so, expressed, and no law shall be revised, or amended, by reference to its title only.
Article XXV
The Legislature shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and cause the same to be published from time to time and all bills and resolutions shall be described therein. The following shall be contained in the journal:
- a. Messages from the Chief Executive,
- b. Titles of all bills, and the title and text of all resolutions.
- c. Every vote taken by yeas and nays, and a brief statement of the context of each petition, memorial or paper presented to the Legislature.
- d. A true and accurate account of the proceedings of the Legislature.
Article XXVI
The Legislature shall name such standing committees, and from time to time such select committees, as it shall determine; but each shall consist of not less than three members, to be authorized in a manner as the Legislature shall establish. At the adjournment of each regular or special session of the Legislature, the chairman of the respective committee shall deliver to the Secretary of the Legislature, the record book of such committee proceedings, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Legislature to preserve the same among the archives of his office. The chairman of each standing committee shall cause to be kept for the purpose, a record of every meeting of the committee wherein shall be entered the followsing:
- a. The time and place of each committee meeting, and every hearing had before the committee.
- b. The attendance of members of the committee at each meeting thereof.
- c. The name of any person or persons appearing before the committee, and the interest represented by him.
Article XXVII
1. The Legislature shall determine its own rules of procedure. However, all bills must go through three reading processes, but each reading process must be made on a separate day, unless, in case of urgency, by a vote of three-fourths of the members present taken on each bill, this requirement may be dispensed with.
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