COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
	Section 2.12. Suspension.	Art. XVI, sec. 2. No law enacted by the
	A law enacted by the General Assembly	General Assembly shall take effect until the
	subject to referendum shall be suspendible	first day of June next after the session at
	unless it is passed by the affirmative vote of	which it may be passed, unless it contain
	three-fifths of all the members of each house	a Section declaring such law an emergency
	and contains a section declaring it to be an	law and necessary for the immediate pres-
	emergency law and necessary for the immedi-	ervation of the public health or safety, and
	ate preservation of the public health or safe-	passed upon a yea and nay vote supported
	ty. If one-half the required signatures are	by three-fifths of all the members elected
	filed during the thirty days after a bill be-	to each of the two Houses of the General
	comes law, the law, if suspendible, shall be	Assembly; provided, however, that said
	suspended thereby through the sixtieth day	period of suspension may be extended as
	after it became law. If the remaining re-	provided in Section 3 (b) hereof. If be-
	quired signatures are filed by that sixtieth	fore said first day of June there shall have
	day, the law shall continue to be suspended.	been filed with the Secretary of the State a
		petition to refer to a vote of the people
		any law or part of a law capable of
		referendum, as in this Article provided, the
		same shall be referred by the Secretary
		of State to such vote, and shall not become
		a law or take effect until thirty days after
		its approval by a majority of the electors
		voting thereon at the next ensuing election
		held throughout the State for Members of
		the House of Representatives of the United
		States. An emergency law shall remain in
		force notwithstanding such petition, but
		shall stand repealed thirty days after having
		been rejected by a majority of the qualified
		electors voting thereon; provided, however,
		that no measure creating or abolishing any
		office, or changing the salary, term or duty
		of any officer, or granting any franchise
		or special privilege, or creating any vested
		right or interest, shall be enacted as an
		emergency law.......
	Section 2.13. Effect of Referendum.	Art. XVI, sec. 5. (a) The General As-
	A referred law shall be repealed thirty days	sembly shall provide for furnishing the
	after it has been rejected by a majority of	voters of the State the text of all measures
	those voting on it if the number voting on the question is not less than one-fourth the	to be voted upon by the people; provided, that until otherwise provided by law the
	number voting in the election. A suspended	same shall be published in the manner
	law which is not repealed shall take effect	prescribed by Article XIV of the Constitu-
	thirty days after the referendum or at a later time if prescribed in the law.	tion for the publication of proposed Con- stitutional Amendments.
		(b) All laws referred under the provi-
		sions of this Article shall be submitted
		separately on the ballots to the voters of
		the people, but if containing more than two
		hundred words, the full text shall not be
		printed on the official ballots, but the
		Secretary of State shall prepare and submit
		a ballot title of each such measure in such
		form as to present the purpose of said
		measure concisely and intelligently. The
		ballot title may be distinct from the legisla-
		tive title, but in any case the legislative

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