Enactment of Legislation

N. Mar. I. Const. art. II, sec. 5 — under Legislative Branch.

N. Mar. I. Const. art. II, sec. 5

Enactment of Legislation

(a) Appropriation and revenue bills may be introduced only in the house of representatives. Other bills may be introduced in either house of the legislature.

(b) A bill shall be confined to one subject except bills for appropriations or bills for the codification, revision or rearrangement of existing laws. Appropriation bills shall be limited to the subject of appropriations. Legislative compliance with this subsection is a constitutional responsibility not subject to judicial review.

(c) The legislature may not enact a law except by bill and no bill may be enacted without the approval of at least a majority of the votes cast in each house of legislature.

(d) The legislature shall enact no law which increases the class of nonaliens, except as to those persons defined in Covenant Section 506(c).