How a bill becomes a law: The first step in the process is technically not counted as a step, but before a bill to become a law, it has to be created as an idea. Someone has to come up with an idea for something that they believe that should be changed, or added. After coming up with this idea, the person can write it up into a bill, this person then has to take it, and read it in front of the House of Representatives and Senate, a committee is then formed, the purpose of a committee is to go through bills and see if they are good, to help the public learn about issues, and to decide if the bill should be able to go ahead to congress. A bill can be stuck in a committee for a very long time, and a lot of bills die there. If the committee decides that the bill can go ahead to be debated on, then the bill goes ahead to the House of Representatives, and the senate. The senators will debate on whether or not, the bill should become a law, and the senators are forbidden to use their colleague’s names, so it doesn’t escalate to a fight. For the bill to move on, both the House of Representatives, and the Senate, must both agree on the law, if only one agrees, the law won’t pass.
Once the bill passes the debate, the governor must sign the bill for it to officially become a law, if he refuses to sign, than it must be voted on again, this is called a veto. After a bill has been vetoed, if the Senate and House of Representatives vote on it again, and both agree by at least two
Once the bill passes the debate, the governor must sign the bill for it to officially become a law, if he refuses to sign, than it must be voted on again, this is called a veto. After a bill has been vetoed, if the Senate and House of Representatives vote on it again, and both agree by at least two