1. The Legislative Process How Bills Become Laws Or Not The Legislative Process how bills become laws . Thousands of new bills will be under consideration. Yet, only a small percentage of them will ever reach the top of the President's desk for final approval or veto. http://www.penfed.org/usawoa/legislative_process.htm

The Legislative Process How Bills Become Laws . . . or Not Complied and reprinted from www.about.com Thousands of new bills will be under consideration. Yet, only a small percentage of them will ever reach the top of the President's desk for final approval or veto. Along their way to the White House, bills traverse a maze of killer committees and subcommittees, debates, and amendments in both chambers of Congress. The following is a very simple explanation of the typical process required for a bill to become a law. This is about as basic as it gets and Congressional gurus will find some details missing. If you would like a complete, detailed explanation, a great research source is... "How Our Laws Are Made" (Library of Congress) Revised and Updated by Charles W. Johnson, Parliamentarian, United States House of Representatives. Many of the reference links below come from this great Web resource. But here are the basics... Step 1: Introduction Anybody you, me, the President, can write a bill; but only a member of Congress (House or Senate) can introduce the bill for consideration. The Representative or Senator who introduces the bill becomes its "Sponsor." Other legislators who support the bill or work on its preparation can ask to be listed as "Co-sponsors." Important bills usually have several Co-sponsors. Four basic types of legislation are considered by Congress: Bills Simple Resolutions Joint Resolutions , and

2. Full-text State Statutes And Legislation On The Internet General Session. Bills Passed as of 2/25/2003 125004 PM Disclaimer. As enrolled bills become available, they are http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm

Full-text state statutes and legislation on the Internet If this page loads slowly, try a copy on another server This page seeks to link to sites containing full-text state constitutions, statutes (called codes or compiled laws in some states), legislation (bills, amendments and similar documents), session laws (bills that have become laws), and administrative rules. Updated 4/4/03. The Internet is a good reference tool, but don't assume any information is accurate, complete or current; double-check it elsewhere before relying on it. Links to sites maintained by governments are in bold type. Check the box if you want links to open in a new window. Alabama Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws Administrative Code, Administrative Monthly Alaska Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws, Administrative Code, Administrative Journal Statutes, Administrative Code Constitution American Samoa Constitution Arizona Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws Administrative Code, Administrative Register Arkansas Legislation, session laws

3. Citizen's Guide how bills become laws. bullet, A Delegate or Senator has an idea fora bill, usually from a constituent. bullet, He or she presents http://legis.state.va.us/CitizensGuide/HowBillsBecomeLaws.htm

Home Citizen's Guide Capitol Tours Capitol Classroom ... Who's My Legislator THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Welcome House of Delegates Senate Committees ... How Bills Become Laws CITIZEN PARTICIPATION Contacting my Legislator How to Track a Bill Language of the Floor Order of Business ... Visiting During Session LOBBYIST LINKS Liaison Book Sec. of the Commonwealth VOTING AND ELECTIONS Election Information Elected Officials Registration Information Voting Information FAQs Bill Information Committees Legislative Process Members ... Miscellaneous Questions How Bills Become Laws A Delegate or Senator has an idea for a bill , usually from a constituent. He or she presents the idea to the Division of Legislative Services and requests that it be drafted into a bill . The bill is signed by the patron, introduced, and printed.

4. Capitol Classroom Has information about how bills become laws, as well as virtual tours, an activity center, and a trivia test section. http://legis.state.va.us/CapitolClassroom/CapitolClassroom-Home.htm

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5. Capitol Classroom how bills become laws. Drafting and Introduction The Senators and Delegates meetwith their constituents to develop proposals to be introduced as bills. http://legis.state.va.us/CapitolClassroom/6-8/6-8HowBillsBecomeLaws.htm

Home Citizen's Guide Capitol Tours Capitol Classroom ... Academic Events How Bills Become Laws Drafting and Introduction The Senators and Delegates meet with their constituents to develop proposals to be introduced as bills. They work with the legislative staff to draft a bill that would create a new law or change the current law. In January, when the General Assembly meets in Richmond, the Senators and Delegates introduce their bills in their respective houses. Committee Action After a bill is introduced, it is referred to the appropriate standing committee. In the Senate, bills are referred by the Clerk of the Senate. In the House, bills are referred by the Speaker. The standing committees have meetings or conduct public hearings to address the bills referred to them. In these meetings, legislators and the public may present their opinions on the bill. After listening to the testimony, the committee will vote to recommend the passage or defeat of the bill. They may also offer changes (called amendments) at this time. If the committee recommends passage of the bill, it then goes before the entire Senate and House for consideration.

6. Michigan State Senate Kids Page Learn about the senate and how bills become laws. http://www.senate.state.mi.us/kidspage/kidspage.htm

7. How Bills Become Laws how bills become laws Links Information from the Library of Congress http://www.alvin.cc.tx.us/faculty/kjefferies/2302sect1lectlaws.htm

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8. U.S. Legislative Process The Legislative Process how bills become laws or Not. You start to wonderhow any bills ever become laws. Fact of the matter is, not many do. http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa010899.htm

zfp=-1 About U.S. Gov Info/Resources Search in this topic on About on the Web in Products Web Hosting U.S. Gov Info/Resources with Robert Longley Your Guide to one of hundreds of sites Home Articles Forums ... Help zmhp('style="color:#fff"') Subjects ESSENTIALS War in Iraq – Latest Headlines Money to Start a Small Business? Unclaimed Property Search ... All articles on this topic Stay up-to-date! Subscribe to our newsletter. Advertising Free Credit Report Free Psychics Advertisement The Legislative Process How Bills Become Laws or Not Each session, the United States Congress considers thousands of bills.. Yet, only a small percentage of them will ever reach the top of the President's desk for final approval or veto. Along their way to the White House, bills traverse a maze of killer committees and subcommittees, debates, and amendments in both chambers of Congress. The following is a very simple explanation of the typical process required for a bill to become a law. This is about as basic as it gets and Congressional gurus will find some details missing. If you would like a complete, detailed explanation, a great research source is... "How Our Laws Are Made" (Library of Congress) Revised and Updated by Charles W. Johnson, Parliamentarian, United States House of Representatives. Many of the reference links below come from this great Web resource.

9. Mopca.com - Billslaws.html MPCA Missouri Police Chiefs Association Online. how bills become laws,General provisions. No law is passed except by bill. Bills may http://www.mopca.com/ser/billslaws.html

M.P.C.A. Missouri Police Chiefs Association Online How Bills become Laws General provisions No law is passed except by bill. Bills may originate in either house and are designated as Senate Bills or House Bills, depending on the house in which they originate. No bill (except general appropriations bills) may contain more than one subject, which is to be expressed clearly in its title. No bill can be amended in its passage through either house so as to change its original purpose. No bill can be introduced in either house after the 60th legislative day of a session unless consented to by a majority of the elected members of each house. The governor may request consideration of proposed legislation by a special message. No appropriation bill shall be taken up for consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the first Friday following the first Monday in May of each year. Introduction of a bill Legislation approved by the 1971 General Assembly (H.B. 156) provides for preintroduction of bills beginning December 1 preceding the opening of the assembly session and continuing up to, but not including, the first day of the session. Bills filed during the preintroduction period are automatically introduced and read the first time on the opening day of the session. Bills may also be introduced by any senator or representative during the session. Bills may be written by the legislator or drafted by the staff of the Committee on Legislative Research at the request of a senator or representative. When introduced, a bill is assigned a number and read for the first time by its title by the Senate or House reading clerk. It then goes on the calendar for second reading and assignment to committee by the speaker of the House or the president pro tem of the Senate.

10. How To Work With Your Legislator It is important to know how to work with your legislator, how bills become laws,and how much impact individuals, groups, and organizations like yours have in http://www.gaemt.org/legisgaemt.html

It is important to know how to work with your legislator, how bills become laws, and how much impact individuals, groups, and organizations like yours have in the creation of such laws. The 50 state legislatures make laws that affect the citizens of their particular states. Responsibilities within the jurisdiction of state legislatures include education, elections, taxation, crime, highways, and traffic regulations. The executive branch, headed by the governor, is responsible for carrying out the laws for each state, while the judiciary interprets state law. Each of the nation's 50 state legislatures is unique in its method of operation and its lawmaking process. There are numerous similarities, but no constants. Thus, each legislature, indeed each legislative body (house or senate) must be approached with particular knowledge and sensitivity to protocol. Those wishing to be effective advocates for a particular issue or bill must get to know the rules and the players. The process in brief: A legislator brings an idea for a bill to the bill drafting office or has his or her staff draft a bill. Ideas for bills can come from anyone who sees a need to change an old law or create a new one.

11. Untitled Document For general information on how bills become laws, go to Congressional Universe.Finding Bills Online. Source Coverage. GPO Access, 103rd Congress present. http://www.law.ufl.edu/lic/guides/federal/con_bills.html

Guide to Locating Federal Bills Introduction Finding Bills Online Searching for a Bill by Subject Checking the Status of a Bill ... Locating a Copy of a Bill Introduction A bill is a draft of a proposed law. Bills may originate in either the House of Representatives or in the Senate. They are designated either H.R. or S. and are numbered consecutively throughout a Congress. (House bills are abbreviated either with a "H" or "HR". "HR" always refers to a bill introduced in the House of Representatives and never to a House Report). Each Congress consists of two sessions and each session lasts one year. For example, the 102nd Congress began in January 1991. The first session runs through 1991, and the 102nd Congress, second session extends through 1992. To match session of Congress to the appropriate years, go to Congressional Session Chart . A bill retains the same number throughout the two sessions of a single Congress. If the bill has not passed by the end of a Congress, it has to be reintroduced in the next Congress, and it is assigned a new number at that time. Bills are the usual means of introducing Congressional legislation, both for enacting new legislation and for amending previous legislation.

12. Georgia Conservation Voters -- The Georgia General Assembly For more information on how bills become laws in Georgia's General Assembly, seethe Carl Vinson Institute of Government's handy chart on how laws are passed http://www.protectgeorgia.org/assemb.htm

Home Who We Are Conservation Agenda Action Alerts ... The Cycle of Accountability Georgia's General Assembly Please Donate Volunteer! Links GEORGIA CONSERVATION VOTERS ABOUT GEORGIA'S GENERAL ASSEMBLY Within a biennium, legislative matters pending at the end of the first session can be carried over to the second, but any business still pending at the end of the second session has to start all over in the next biennium. Regular sessions of the General Assembly last 40 "legislative days." The actual length of the session varies depending on the number of recesses called during the session, when the clock stops on the "legislative days" meter. Special sessions are sometimes called, such as the recent session that used the 2000 census information to re-draw Georgia's state and federal legislative district boundaries a process called "reapportionment." The governor can veto a bill passed by both houses of the General Assembly. If a bill is sent to the governor during the first 34 days of a session, he or she has six days to sign it or veto it, but since most bills are passed in the final days of a session this rarely happens. After the General Assembly adjourns in March, the Governor has 40 days to sign or to veto legislation; any bills neither signed nor vetoed automatically become law after this time. If the Governor vetos a bill during the last three days of a session, or during the first 40 days following adjournment, the General Assembly may consider a veto override at the subsequent legislative session. Two-thirds of the Georgia House and Georgia Senate must vote to override for the veto to be overridden.

13. Congressman Eric Cantor Have fun at the Virginia General Assembly's Kids' Page. Includes Activity Page,Trivia, and how bills become laws. . Take a virtual tour of the US Capitol. http://cantor.house.gov/kidspage/

Bettie Weaver Elementary School 5th graders pose for a picture at the Congressman's desk How well do you know your history? Check out this interactive Early American History crossword puzzle Learn more about George Washington. Play interactive puzzles and games on the Valley Forge Kids' Page Explore Jamestown. Learn about America's first colony at Virtual Jamestown Discover the story of the "Father of Our Constitution." Explore the home of James Madison Have fun at the Virginia General Assembly's Kids' Page. Includes Activity Page Trivia , and "How Bills Become Laws." Take a virtual tour of the U.S. Capitol.

14. The Legislative Process At the end of the session the journals are published by the House andSenate. how bills become laws. No law is passed except by bill. http://www.house.state.mo.us/info/howbill.htm

Missouri House of Representatives THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS IN MISSOURI The General Assembly Legislative power is vested by Section 1, Article III of the Missouri Constitution in the General Assembly, more commonly known as the Legislature, composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate consists of thirty-four members, who are elected for four-year terms. Senators from odd-numbered districts are elected in presidential election years. Senators from even-numbered districts are chosen in the "off year" elections. Each senator must be at least 30 years of age; a qualified voter of the state for three years; and of the district he represents for one year. The Lieutenant Governor is president and presiding officer of the Senate. In his absence, the President Pro Tem, who is elected by the Senate members, presides. The House of Representatives consists of 163 members, elected at each general election for two-year terms. A representative must be at least 24 years of age; a qualified voter of the state for two years; and of the district he represents for one year. The House of Representatives is presided over by the Speaker, who is chosen by the members, and in his absence by the Speaker Pro Tem. The Missouri Constitution provides that new senatorial and representative districts be established after each federal decennial census. The last redistricting was in 1991. There will be a new redistricting in 2001 to determine the districts for the 2002 and subsequent elections.

15. 4-H Members To Experience West Virginia's Legislative Process The group's activities begin with a discussion about functions of thethree branches of state government and how bills become laws. http://www.wvu.edu/~exten/infores/newsrel/2003/021903-01.htm

4-H Members to Experience West Virginia's Legislative Process FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Timely through March 31, 2003 CONTACT: Ann Bailey Berry, WVU Extension Communications Phone: (304) 293-4221, ext. 3416; e-mail: Ann.Berry@mail.wvu.edu Hundreds of West Virginia 4-H club members and volunteers will learn about the state's law-making procedures and meet their respective legislators during "4-H Day at the Legislature" activities Thursday in Charleston. The group's activities begin with a discussion about functions of the three branches of state government and how bills become laws. The youths will have the opportunity to meet state senators and house members from their area and inquire about the legislative process. Several 4-H members will serve as legislative pages during the session. The group will observe democracy and their legislators in action during morning floor sessions in both chambers. Selected 4-H members will sing the national anthem, under the direction of Michele Hale from Berkeley County, a member of the 4-H All Stars. After watching the law-making procedures, the 4-H'ers will tour the Capitol Complex and the West Virginia Cultural Center.

16. Homework Hotline - Law Office. How Our Laws Are Made http//thomas.loc.gov/home/lawsmade.toc.htmlThis website explains how bills become laws. (A great http://www.homeworkhotline.com/Law.htm

Law Anatomy of a Murder - http://library.thinkquest.org/2760/ A trip through our nation's legal justice system by following along or participating in a fictional murder trial. Go to this site to find out how you can participate! - http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/aVoid.htm Protect your interests and avoid infringing on others' rights, from the Franklin Pierce Law Center Children's Rights Law Materials - http://wwwsecure.law.cornell.edu/topics/childrens_rights.html A child is a person, and not a subperson over whom the parent has an absolute possessory interest. The term "child" does not necessarily mean minor, but can include adult children, and even adult nondependent children. Children are generally afforded the basic rights embodied by the constitution. There are both state and federal sources of child-rights law. The Civic Mind - http://www.civicmind.com/lessons.htm Lesson plans on: Conflicts over equality (grades 6-8)Subject areas: Social studies, civil rights, U.S. History, Supreme Court, Constitution; Violence and Free Speech (grades 6-8)Subject areas: Social studies, Constitution, law, civics and government; Write a preamble for our class (grades 5-8)Subject areas: Social studies, Constitution, law, civics and government.

17. Mrs. Renz's 4th Grade Class Senator Clarno took a break from her very busy schedule to tell all of thefourth grades about how bills become laws and why people pay taxes. http://www.redmond.k12.or.us/patrick/renz/2001-2002 Class/govmtunit.htm

Welcome to Mrs. Renz's 4th Grade Class Web Site! Vern Patrick Elementary School Redmond, Oregon Our Government Unit with Guest Speaker Oregon Senator Bev Clarno Senator Clarno took a break from her very busy schedule to tell all of the fourth grades about how bills become laws and why people pay taxes. Senator Clarno takes a poll among the audience on a bill about treating cats and dogs better and how much the fine should be. OUR CLASSROOM LEGISLATURE Students came up with ideas for possible bills which our classroom legislature could turn into a bill. It was a close vote between having no homework for the rest of the year and being able to sit by a friend for the rest of the year, but "no homework" won out! Senator Jered wrote up the bill, SB6301, and we the Senators and the Representatives heard arguments for and against the bill. The President of the Senate, Michael, conducted the official vote. It passed the Senate with a vote in favor of 10-0. The bill then moved on to the House where the Speaker of the House polled the House members. Again, the bill sailed through with a unanimous vote. The bill was then set on Governor Renz's desk. She considered it carefully, then explained that she had to veto the bill because she thought students should not be denied the right to gain an education by not being able to complete homework.

18. Claude Pepper Study Guide how bills become laws. A bill can originate in either Congressionalbody except for spending bills which must originate in the House. http://www.pepperfoundation.org/studyguide.htm

P EPPER S TUDY G UIDE Introduction Biography Social and Political Legacy A Political Primer ... Resources: Where Can I Learn More? I. Introduction Who was Claude Pepper? Claude Pepper was a politician and a statesman who believed that the government had a responsibility to help those in need. Pepper served in the United States Senate from 1937 to 1951 and was a member of the House of Representatives from 1963 to 1989. Among his many accomplishments, he drafted the first bill to establish a minimum wage and maximum hours, introduced the first equal pay for equal work to women legislation, introduced legislation providing military aid known as Lend-Lease to Great Britain in World War II, held the first hearings on drugs in the schools, helped create the Juvenile Justice Agency, sponsored the Older Americans Act, ended mandatory retirement, and championed legislation to create the National Institutes of Health. What did he stand for A lifelong liberal, Pepper devoted his life to the belief that government must assure its citizens’ opportunity, health care and personal security. He championed the needs of the elderly, the poor, the disenfranchised and the sick. II. Biography

19. How Parliamentary Bills Become Law Information about parliamentary bills and acts. The facts how parliamentary bills become acts of parliament. What does it take to get laws on the statute book? bills http://www.citizensconnection.net/home-page/how-society-works/national-governmen

Find a new role Start something Skills for citizens How society works Teen zone Home How society works National government How parliamentary bills become law Home How society works Arts, sport and heritage Crime and justice ... Voluntary sector Search our site Site map About us Contact us Useful links ... Get this article as XML Related links... Common Purpose The facts: how parliamentary bills become acts of parliament What does it take to get laws on the statute book? Bills and acts - what's the difference? A draft new law that is going through parliament is known as a bill. Once it has passed all of its parliamentary stages a bill becomes law and is then known as an act. Except in exceptional circumstances a bill must be passed by both the House of Commons and by the House of Lords. The passage of a bill can start in either House. With the setting up of the Scottish Parliament, a lot of new Scottish laws will not be decided by the UK parliament in Westminster. Types of bill Bills are divided into public bills and private bills. Public bills are those which affect the public in general, though not necessarily throughout the whole of the UK.

20. How Bills Become Law how laws Are Passed in Mississippi. Send mail to paul@tpcqpc.com with questionsor comments about this web site. Copyright © 2000, GregSnowden.Com. http://www.gregsnowden.com/life_of_a_bill.htm

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