How a Bill Becomes a Law?

Bill Starting in the House

...The Bill is introduced in the House

...The Speaker assigns the bill to a committee

What is the next step?

• Bill goes to House Floor for debate and voting.

• House Committee decides to pass the bill.

• The bill is sent to the Senate.

Bill starts in the Senate

...The bill passes the House Committee and sent to the House Floor

...The members of the House vote to pass the bill

What's the next step?

• The bill is sent to the Senate

• The bill is sent to the President

• The House committee passes

The Bill starts in the Senate

...Speaker of the House assigns the bill to a committee

...The House committee kills the bill.

What's the next step?

• The bill is sent to the Senate

• The President vetoes the bill

• The bill is dead

The Bill starts in the House

...The bill is debated on the House Floor and the House passes the bill.

...The bill is sent to the Senate.

What's the next step?

• The President vetoes the bill

• The bill is introduced on the senate

• The Senate floor debates the bill and votes to pass the bill

The Bill begins in the Senate

...The Speaker of the House assigns the bill to a committee

...The House committee pigeonholes the bill

What 's the next Step?

• The bill is sent to the House floor.

• The bill is dead.

• The bill will be sent to a special Conference Committee containing members of the House and the Senate.

The bill starts in the House

...The Bill is sent to the President

...The President vetoes the bill

What's the next step?

• Congress overrides the veto with 2/3 vote in both houses

• The Vice President assigns the bill to a Senate Committee.

• The bill is sent back to the House of Representatives

Bill starts in House

...The bill is introduced in the Senate

...The Vice President assigns the bill to a Committee

• The Senate Committee votes to kill the bill

• the bill goes to the Senate floor

• The bill is sent to the House

Bill starts in the Senate

...The House floor votes to pass the bill

...The bill goes to the President

What's the next step?

• The bill is sent to the House of Representatives

• The President signs the bill into law

• The bill dies

Bill starts in the House

...The Senate floor votes to pass the bill

...The bill is sent to the President

What's the next step?

• The Senate Committee votes to pass the bill

• The bill is sent to the Senate

• The President gets the bill in last 10 days and lets the bill die on his desk

The Bill starts in the House

...The bill is sent to the President

...The President vetoes the bill

What's the next step?

• Congress attempts to override the bill but does not get the necessary 2/3 vote

• The bill becomes a law

• The Senate Committee votes to pass the bill