On July 1, 1999, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision that found that Public Act 89-21 violated the single subject requirement of the Illinois Constitution.
The author argues that there is a better way for courts to limit legislators' power to combine diverse subjects into a single bill and offers an alternative.
One of the more celebrated accomplishments of the Illinois General Assembly in 1998 was passage of ethics legislation imposing limits on gifts and contributions to state office holders and candidates for those offices.
