Omnibus bill
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An Omnibus bill is a single document that is accepted in a single vote by a legislature but contains amendments to a number of other laws or even many entirely new laws. An example of these are the Omnibus spending bills regularly used by the United States Congress to group together the budgets of all departments in one year.
Another famous example of an omnibus bill is the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69, a massive 126-page, 120-clause amendment to the Criminal Code of Canada, which dealt with issues as diverse as homosexuality, abortion, gambling, gun control and drunk driving.
