10. Like Senate Rules, How to Turn a 8. House Rules decides Great Idea into Law...
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Senate Rules Committee Senate Rules Committee Have a great idea? Let me show you how to turn it into a law right here on Capitol Hill! 1. Ideas can come from citizens, legislators, think tanks, lobbying groups, businesses, nonprofits, etc. 2. If a legislator likes the idea for the bill, she can agree to become the bill sponsor. The sponsor then takes the bill to the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel (Step 3), where state attorneys draft the legislation and provide legal research and analysis to ensure the idea is feasible. 4. Senate Rules decides if and when a bill will be heard and which Senate committee will hear it. 10. Like Senate Rules, House Rules decides if and when a bill will be heard and which House committee will hear it. 6. Senate Rules sends the bill to the Senate Standing Committee it deems most appropriate to debate the bill. If the House Standing Committee passes the bill, it heads back to the House Rules Committee, which usually defers to Senate Rules to determine order of Senate bills to be heard on House floor, and vice-versa. 11. If the bill passes the House, it is sent to the Governor to sign or veto. If the Governor vetoes the bill, both the Senate and House can override the veto with a 2/3 majority vote. 12. The Governor can sign the bill into law, veto it, or do nothing. If he does nothing, the bill becomes law without his signature. 8. If the Senate Rules Committee sends the bill on, it then heads to the Senate floor to be debated by the full Senate body. 9. If the bill passes the Senate with a majority vote, it is sent to the House, which passes it on to the House Rules Committee. 7. The bill is then sent back to the Senate Rules Committee, which decides if and when the bill will be heard by the full Senate body. 1. First, start with an idea! 2. I’m Sen. Cando, your bill sponsor! 5. bill receives fiscal note vote can be taken here to “kill” bill 4. senate sends bill to senate rules committee Senate Standing Comm. 6. bill is sent to senate standing comm. 8. Bill is sent to senate floor 7. Bill is sent back to Rules Comm. 3. office of legislative research House Rules Committee House Standing Comm. 10. Bill is sent to house standing comm. 11. Bill is sent to house floor 12. Bill is sent to governor Governor vote can be taken here to “kill” bill vote can be taken here to “kill” bill vote can be taken here to “kill” bill vote can be taken here to “kill” bill vote can be taken here to “kill” bill vote can be taken here to “kill” bill Governor can veto the bill 9. Bill is sent to house rules you can be involved throughout the idea-to- bill-to-law process! just look for the yellow star to see where you can share ideas, testify in committee, communicate with legislators, urge a “yea” or “nay” vote, and so on. To understand how a bill becomes a law, we’ll follow an idea as it makes its way first through the Senate, and then through the House. an idea can also start in the house and then go to the senate following the same process. How to Turn a Great Idea into Law in Utah! provided by: utahcitizennetwork.org a project of sutherland institute
Transcript of 10. Like Senate Rules, How to Turn a 8. House Rules decides Great Idea into Law...
Senate Rules Committee
Senate Rules Committee
Have a great idea? Let me show you how to turn it into a law right here on Capitol Hill!
1. Ideas can come from citizens, legislators, think tanks, lobbying
groups, businesses, nonprofits, etc.
2. If a legislator likes the idea for the bill, she can agree to become the bill sponsor. The sponsor then takes the bill to the Office of Legislative Research
and General Counsel (Step 3), where state attorneys draft the legislation and provide legal research and
analysis to ensure the idea is feasible.
4. Senate Rules decides if and when a bill will be heard and which Senate committee will hear it.
10. Like Senate Rules, House Rules decides
if and when a bill will be heard and which
House committee will hear it.
6. Senate Rules sends the bill to the Senate Standing Committee it deems most appropriate to debate the bill.
If the House Standing Committee passes the bill, it heads back to the House Rules Committee, which usually defers to Senate Rules to determine order of Senate bills to be heard on House floor, and vice-versa.
11. If the bill passes the House, it is sent to the Governor to sign or veto. If the Governor vetoes the bill, both the Senate and House can override the veto with a 2/3 majority vote.
12. The Governor can sign the bill into law, veto it, or do nothing. If he does nothing, the bill becomes law without his signature.
8. If the Senate Rules Committee sends the bill on, it then heads to the Senate floor to be
debated by the full Senate body.
9. If the bill passes the Senate with a majority
vote, it is sent to the House, which passes it on to the House Rules
Committee.
7. The bill is then sent back to the Senate Rules Committee, which decides if and when the bill will be heard by the full Senate body.
1. First, start
with an idea!
2.I’m Sen. Cando,
your bill sponsor!
5.bill
receives fiscal note
vote can be taken here to
“kill” bill
4.senate
sends bill to senate
rules committee
Senate Standing Comm.
6. billis sent
to senate standing
comm.
8.Bill
is sent to senatefloor
7.Bill is
sent back to Rules
Comm.
3.office of
legislative research
House Rules Committee
House Standing Comm.
10. Billis sent to
house standing
comm.
11. Bill
is sent to house floor
12. Bill
is sent to governor
Governor
vote can be taken here to
“kill” bill
vote can be taken here to
“kill” bill
vote can be taken here to
“kill” bill
vote can be taken here to
“kill” bill
vote can be taken here to
“kill” bill
vote can be taken here to
“kill” bill
Governor can veto the bill
9.Bill
is sent to house rules
you can be involved throughout the idea-to-
bill-to-law process! just look for the yellow
star to see where you can share ideas, testify in
committee, communicate with legislators, urge a “yea” or
“nay” vote, and so on.
To understand how a bill becomes a law, we’ll follow an idea as it makes its way first through the Senate, and then through the House. an idea can also start in the house and then go to the senate following the same process.
How to Turn a Great Idea into
Law in Utah!
provided by:utahcitizennetwork.org
a project of sutherland institute
