The hose and senate rules are so screwed up {purposefully so} No person and especially not out elected can be certain what law is being enacted when. The amendments to bills unless specifically related to the title of the bill should not be allowed. Plenty of change needs to come. There are too many lawyers in office. Write the bills in layman's terms short, simple, and to the point. No bill except the federal budget should be over 4-5 pages long either. If they want more bills write another one. It's not wise to sign your name to what you haven't read first yet our elected do just that very thing day after day.
Well ones things for certain if they have time on their hands to write some of the pathetic stuff written in the past 10 years then they have far too much time in session. It should at least be cut in half then as well as their pay.
They play equally wicked games when they "revise" existing laws. The revisions take the form of incomrehensible "spaghetti code", in which they give a word or two here that they say should be added to a certain paragraph, another word removed, a comma added, etc. There is NO way to make sense of the "revisions" just by looking at them, and no way to read the original and mentally apply the revisions. They could simply do what writers do in the real world, i.e., use in-line revisions, and/or RETYPE the document in the final form so that it can be read by a human, but that would defeat the "advantage, lawyers." The only ones who really know what most of that crap means are the lawyers who crafted it in such a way as to be completely unreadable. And it remains that way -- until they decide to use it against someone, at which point they explain what happens when certain words are added and deleted vis-a-vis the original law.