logrolling

“The single-subject rule prevents logrolling, namely, the passage of legislation that, if standing alone, could not muster the necessary votes for enactment,” the lawsuit reads.

Kelly said most Kansans don’t support such policies, and she chastised lawmakers for “logrolling” them into the education funding bill rather than proposing them as separate bills.

Without the structure parties provide, logrolling, favor-trading and compromise on legislation would have to start from scratch each time a bill is proposed.

Lawyers also debated whether the measure was “logrolling” too many different subjects and whether the state could really base vehicle values off the private company Kelley Blue Book, as called for in the initiative.

Evnen said another measure amounted to unconstitutional “logrolling” because it offered money for property tax credits, but only if the gambling legalization measure went into effect.