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Process of Enacting A Statute

            the process of enacting a federal statute.
             A bill is a proposal for a change in the law that becomes a statute after it has been enacted. The member who introduces the bill is known as its sponsor. Usually the bills are introduced by being placed in the "hopper." Each bill is then referred to the appropriate committee. Once the bill is with its appropriate committee, it will either be killed or survive. From there the bill gets voted on in one of two ways: non- recorded and recorded. Usually a committee will make recommendation to its legislative body w/ respect to a bill as amended. In addition to committee amendments, in Congress, floor amendments are a very important part of the process. An offering of an amendment requires a response from the bill's sponsor who must determine whether the amendment would kill or substantially reshape the bill. The sponsor of the bill then begins the process of requesting a rule from the Rules Committee. If the request is not denied the bill is frequently killed. Hearings before the Rules Committee usually include discussion of the substantive of the bill as well as discussion of the terms of debate. After the Committee has completed the amendment process, the bill moves to the House for final action. The members must consider any amendments approved by the Committee. A conference is the means by which the two houses of Congress resolve the differences b/w them on a bill that both houses have considered and adopted. When the conference committee reaches an agreement, it issues a report that details as such. The house considers the report. If both houses pass the bill the bill is presented to the executive. If the president uses his executive power, a supermajority in both houses may override the veto. .
            


Essays Related to Process of Enacting A Statute

1. Briefly describe the process by which legislation is enacted

The process of enacting legislation is a complicated undertaking from the time a bill is drafted until it is finally passed and sent to the Queen. ... The proposals must then complete the legislative process from which a Bill becomes an act of parliament. ... Parliamentary sovereignty ensures that the judiciary can only interpret statutes and not change them in any way. ... Once legislation has been created, it is left for the courts to interpret the statutes. ... In conclusion it can be stated that even if the judiciary may feel that enacted legislation has been made in an improper way and is...

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2. Death penalty8

But in 1938 in an effort to make the death penalty more acceptable to the public some states began passing laws against mandatory death sentencing instead enacting discretionary death penalty statutes. ... The Court ruled that these new statutes contained "objective standards to guide, and regularize the process for imposing the sentence of death." ... Georgia,) Thus the states as well as Congress have had for some years constitutionally valid statutory models for death-penalty laws, and more than three dozen state legislatures have enacted death penalty statutes patterned after those the Cour...

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3. daisy

The laws in question had been enacted in 1879. ... NAACP v Alabama (1958): The court protected the freedom of association and privacy in one's associations Snyder v Massachusetts (1934): The court stated that the Due Process Clause protects those liberties that are so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people. ... Analysis of the Case The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Griswold and found that Connecticut statute was invalid as an unconstitutional invasion of the right of privacy of married persons. The Supreme Court ruled that the "statute forbidding use of contrac...

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4. The Legislative Evolution of Design-Build in Texas

The public construction industry, which builds facilities used for government related activities and/or financed by public funds, is subject to more stringent building statutes and regulations then construction in the private sector (i.e. retail, residential, and commercial). These additional statutes regulate wage rates, subcontracting, and contract bidding procedures. ... During contract bidding, the services of a general contractor are procured through a Qualifications-Based Selection (QBS) process (GOV CODE 2155, 2003). The selection criteria for the QBS process determine if a bidder demo...

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5. Boeing and Toyota - Business Case Analysis

This process streamlines the demands placed on the finite time allotted per worker. ... The domestic automakers lobbied Congress as were able to enact limitations on foreign automakers in an attempt to remain competitive. ... U.S. manufacturers will adopt the lean manufacturing process and the past gaps between retail prices and production prices will close. ... They will pay the same wages; deal with the same union pressures, navigate and comply with the same regulatory statutes, and largely produce in the exact same way. ...

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6. Gun Control and the Gun Show Loophole

Over the years, there have been three major federal statutes that have regulated the possession of firearms. ... It also placed heavy taxes on all aspects of the weapons' production and distribution process. The second vital statute was the Gun Control Act of 1968, which mostly required all persons manufacturing, importing, or selling firearms as a business to be federally licensed. ... Though such an act placed restrictions on licensed, regulated sales of guns, there still remains a problem: the government has yet to enact a law that places restrictions on private, unregulated sales. .....

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7. Influences on Parliament

There are many influences on Parliament before and during the legislative process such as Pressure groups and lobbyists, News Media and the Law Commission. ... The Law Commission also has the task of identifying obsolete legislation still on the statute books and proposing its repeal. These proposals are usually implemented quite quickly, because they are treated as Consolidation bills and so can be enacted without debate in either House. ...

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8. euthanasia

It involves the right to die which is protected by the United States Constitution clauses of due process liberty and the right to privacy (Fourteenth Amendment). ... Since New Jersey's decision, all fifty states have enacted similar statutes which contain living will provisions. ... The DDA designed a statute, proposition 161, that would legalize doctor-assisted suicide. The statute was also created with extraordinary care to provide all reasonable precaution to protect against the risks of legalizing the practice of active euthanasia. One of the clauses of the statute which aims at the p...

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