Legislative Process In The Texas Senate

A bill is proposed legislation under consideration by a legislature. A bill doesn’t become law until it is passed by the legislature and, in most cases, approved by the executive. Once a bill has been enacted into law, it is called an Act or a statute. For a bill to become law it has to go through an extensive process which includes committees, hearings and many reviews. The detailed process is called the “legislative Process”.
The bill presented for this exam is starts in the Senate which is the upper house of the Texas Legislature. The Texas senate holds thirty-one members who represent unique districts all over the state. The senators represent a specific political party which communicates the beliefs of many organized groups of people with at least roughly similar political aims and opinions. These parties seek to influence public policy by getting its candidates elected to public office. The Senate has many jobs which include approving bills previously passed in the House of Representatives, sponsoring their own bills to become laws, and to represent the people living in the state. Currently in the Texas Senate the Republican Party hold the majority number …show more content…
The individual senators can voice their individual opinions on a piece of legislature by voting for or against a bill. Bill voting information is available in the house or senate journal. The votes of individual representatives and senators is available only if (1) a record vote is requested at the time the vote takes place; or (2) when a record vote has not been taken within a specified time limit, a member registers a request to have his or her vote recorded in the journal. On March twelfth the bill was reported “favorable without amendments” which means it had a majority vote to be passed and no changes were added to the document. Additional amendments usually lengthen the legislative process considerably because of needed