Sec. 39.  TIME OF TAKING EFFECT OF LAWS.  No law passed by the Legislature, except the general appropriation act, shall take effect or go into force until ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it was enacted, unless the Legislature shall, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each House, otherwise direct; said vote to be taken by yeas and nays, and entered upon the journals.
(Feb. 15, 1876. Amended Nov. 2, 1999.)  (TEMPORARY TRANSITION PROVISIONS for Sec. 39: See Appendix, Note 1.)