Former Provisions of the Constitution of the State of Ohio, 1851 Former Art. II, § 16

Every bill shall be fully and distinctly read, on three different days, unless, in case of urgency, three-fourths of the house, in which it shall be pending, shall dispense with this rule.  No bill shall contain more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title;  and no law shall be revived, or amended, unless the new act contain the entire act revived, or the section or sections amended;  and the section, or sections, so amended, shall be repealed.