State ex rel. Brewster v. Knapp

Citations

• 102 Kan. 701
• 171 P. 639
• 1918 Kan. LEXIS 124

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Constitutional Law — Enactment of Statute — When “House Concurrent Resolution” May Become a Law. Under a constitution which provides that “no law shall be enacted except by bill,” but which recognizes that a joint resolution passed by the senate and house of representatives may in some circumstances become a law, a proposition passed by both houses and approved-by the governor may be regarded as a bill within the meaning of the provision quoted, where it has received the treatment of such a document and has every characteristic thereof except that it describes itself as a concurrent resolution, and contains the Words “Be it resolved by the house of representatives of the- state of Kansas, the senate concurring therein,” instead of the constitutional formula for an enacting clause, “Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Kansas.”</p>