Rider (legislation)

In legislative procedure, a rider is an additional provision added to a bill or other measure under the consideration by a legislature, which may or may not have much, if any, connection with the subject matter of the bill.[1]

Some scholars identify riders as a specific form of logrolling,[2] or as implicit logrolling.[3] Others distinguish riders from logrolling.[4] Adding riders to legislation is not permitted in legislatures bound by a single-subject rule.[4][2]

  1. ^ "Definition of RIDER". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b Philip L. Dubois, Lawmaking by Initiative: Issues, Options and Comparisons (Algora, 1998), p. 126.
  3. ^ David N. Hyman, Public Finance: A Contemporary Application of Theory to Policy (9th ed.: Centgage, 2007), p. 205.
  4. ^ a b Michael D. Gilbert, Single Subject Rules and the Legislative Process, 67 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 803.