Davelyn, Tombocon

BPA/Blk 3

DIRECTION: Make a flow chart of the whole legislative process, bellow your crafted flowchart or in separate
paper, explain the process that you created in as simple as you have understood it. Make it neat and
readable.

The legislative Process

1. The 10. The president can 11. If voted, it goes

Representative gets sign the bill, veto it, back to House and
support from or do nothing (will Senate to reconsider.
others to sponsor become a law after 10 If 2/3 of Congress
the bill and it is days if Congress is in vote to pass the bill
sent to committee. session). the veto is overridden.

2. Committee 9. The jointly approved

discusses the bill bill goes back to the
and makes changes House and the Senate
before it is sent for final vote. If
12. The
back to the floor of approved by Congress, Bill
the House. it goes to the becomes a
President.
Law.

8. House and Senate

3. Representatives members in a joint
debate the bill and committee discuss This is the legislative process
make changes the differences I make. And if you want to
before they vote. between the two bills
and make any final influence the bill, it helps
changes. you to know the process it
goes through. Also you
might want to be a legislator
someday. Then it is helpful
4. The House votes
on the bill if a 7. If a majority of the to know what you are doing.
majority of the Senators vote “Yea’ on
House votes “YES”, the bill it is passed
the bill is passed back to the House for
and moves on the review.
Senate.

5. Bill first goes to a 6. The bill is then

Senate committee debated on the
that discusses the Senate floor before it
bill and makes is voted on with a
changes and “Yea’ or “Nay” vote
amendments.