Three Stages Of A Bill

First of all a bill has to be presented to the house of committee before any other process can begin. A bill cannot not presented by anyone but only a member of congress may present bills. A bill can take up to a year to be reviewed by both houses of congress and signed before it can be considerable for the president to make it into a law. According to the UShistory.org, a bill has to go through three stages in each house before it becomes a law. If the bill does not finish all the process, it will get dropped and can only be revived through another presentation and through the whole process again. The three stages are committee consideration, floor debate and conference committees.
Not all bills gets to be reviewed, there are so many bills that enter the houses of committee and about 85-90 percent of those bills do not come out. In the committee consideration stage, the presented bill is sent to committees that deal with that specific type of bill. For an example, Senator Olympia Snow introduced the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2003, (Genome.org). If a bill is survived, there is a hearing that contains the government officials or lobbyists so they can present their points of view to the committee members that are
handling the bill. Once the hearing is over, the bill is ready for the next stage.
In the floor debate, a bill has to go to special rules committee. The rules committee is the one that sets time limits on debate and rules for the adding bill. During the debate the house of representative members can speak on a bill for a set period of time as directed in the “rule” and the senate members has indefinite time while speaking on a bill or any other topics addressed to them, (POLS210, Lesson 3).
Finally the third stage is the conference committees.
The reason why there is a third stage is that sometimes the house of representative and the senate does not agree on some bills so there need to be a final conference call to look through the bill again. Most of the bills do not need to go through this stage but if they have to then the bills must be mainly important. The members of the conference committees are the one to decide if the bills need to go back to both houses to be look at again before the president can sign it to make it a law, (UShistory.org).
References
How a Bill Becomes a Law. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ushistory.org/gov/6e.asp

How a Bill Becomes Law. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.genome.gov/12513982