Sponsor
Russell Fulcher
Representative · R-ID
Representative · R-ID
The bill increases transparency and accountability by forcing clearer, narrower laws and enabling quicker judicial relief, but those gains come with higher risk of slower lawmaking, more litigation and costs, funding disruptions, and greater legal uncertainty.
Taxpayers, federal employees, and state governments: Bills and appropriations will be clearer and more narrowly tailored, reducing hidden riders and logrolling and better tying spending to specific purposes.
Members of Congress, private parties, and taxpayers: People harmed by improperly enacted laws gain a private right to sue to block enforcement, increasing legal accountability for how laws are passed.
Taxpayers and the court process: Courts can provide quicker and more decisive relief (injunctions without an amount-in-controversy threshold and de novo review), speeding invalidation of provisions that violate the bill's procedural rules.
Federal, state, and local governments, program beneficiaries, and taxpayers: Courts could void appropriations or nongermane provisions, creating funding interruptions or program lapses and risking service continuity.
Lawmakers, federal employees, and taxpayers: Preventing bundling of measures will likely slow the legislative process, increase floor time, and raise the risk of gridlock.
Taxpayers, defendants, and courts: Broadening who may sue and removing monetary thresholds will increase federal litigation caseloads and legal costs paid by the government (and thus taxpayers).
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Requires one subject per bill with a plain title, restricts nongermane provisions in appropriations bills, and creates a private federal right to sue to void violations.
Official title: To end the practice of including more than one subject in a single bill by requiring that each bill enacted by Congress be limited to only one subject, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 10, 2025 by Russell Fulcher · Last progress July 10, 2025
Limits each bill or joint resolution in Congress to a single clearly stated subject, requires that the title plainly describe that subject, and narrows what may be included in appropriations bills so they cannot carry unrelated policy changes. It also creates a private right to sue in federal court, authorizes courts to void provisions and to review compliance de novo, and allows injunctions without any amount-in-controversy requirement for people (including Members) aggrieved by violations. The measure is procedural: it changes how legislation must be drafted and what may appear in appropriations measures, and it gives courts a new enforcement role that could significantly increase litigation over whether enacted laws meet the single-subject and title requirements.