Oklahoma Legislative Act as General or Comprehensive Subject Amendment (2018)
| Oklahoma Legislative Act as General or Comprehensive Subject Amendment | |
|---|---|
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic State legislatures measures | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The Oklahoma Legislative Act as General or Comprehensive Subject Amendment was not on the ballot in Oklahoma as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have required that each act, such as a bill, of the state legislature be one general or one comprehensive subject. The measure would have authorized the legislature to define comprehensive subject.[1]
As of 2017, the Oklahoma Constitution required that each act be one subject, without reference to the act being general or comprehensive.
Text of measure
Gist of the proposition
The gist of the proposition was as follows:[1]
| “ | This measure amends the State Constitution. It amends Section 57 of Article 5. The change allows an act of the Legislature to include a subject that is also more comprehensive. It also authorizes the Legislature to provide any additional law to define a comprehensive subject.[2] | ” |
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article V, Oklahoma Constitution
The proposed amendment would have amended Section 57 of Article V of the Oklahoma Constitution. The following underlined text would have been added, and struck-through text would have been deleted:[1]
Every act of the Legislature shall embrace but either one general subject, or one comprehensive subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title, except general appropriation bills, general revenue bills, and bills adopting a code, digest, or revision of statutes; and no law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended or conferred, by reference to its title only; but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extended, or conferred shall be re-enacted and published at length: Provided, That if any subject be embraced in any act contrary to the provisions of this section, such act shall be void only as to so much of the law as may not be expressed in the title thereof.
The Legislature may make provisions for defining a comprehensive subject.[2]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the Oklahoma Constitution
In Oklahoma, a constitutional amendment must be passed by a simple majority vote in each house of the state legislature during one legislative session.
The amendment was introduced on January 23, 2017, as Senate Joint Resolution 40. On March 21, 2017, the Oklahoma Senate voted 38 to 5 with five senators excused to approve the amendment. The amendment did not reach the floor of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.[3]
Senate vote
March 21, 2017[3]
| Oklahoma SJR 40 Senate Vote | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 38 | 88.37% | ||
| No | 5 | 11.63% | ||
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Oklahoma Legislature, "Senate Joint Resolution 40," accessed March 23, 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "quotedisclaimer" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Oklahoma Legislature, "SJR 40 Overview," accessed March 23, 2017
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