Tex. Const. art. III, § 35 · Article 3. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
SUBJECTS AND TITLES OF BILLS.
Text — Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
(a) No bill, (except general appropriation bills, which may embrace the various subjects and accounts, for and on account of which moneys are appropriated) shall contain more than one subject.
(b) The rules of procedure of each house shall require that the subject of each bill be expressed in its title in a manner that gives the legislature and the public reasonable notice of that subject. The legislature is solely responsible for determining compliance with the rule.
(c) A law, including a law enacted before the effective date of this subsection, may not be held void on the basis of an insufficient title.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
(Feb. 15, 1876. Subsec. (a) amended and (b) and (c) added Nov. 4, 1986.)
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CN/htm/CN.3.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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