Reform Legislative Process
STEP 1:
In the Senate
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A) The Senate Finance Committee drafts and passes their proposal of the Reform Bill. (COMPLETED)
B) The Senate HELP Committee drafts and passes their proposal of the Reform Bill. (COMPLETED)
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A) The Senate Leadership works with the two committees to merge their proposals into one Reform Bill. (COMPLETED)
B) The Senate votes on the new (merged) version of the Reform Bill.
(COMPLETED)
C) If the Reform Bill passes, it will be presented (by the Senate) to the House-Senate Conference Committee. (COMPLETED)
In the House
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A) The Ways and Means Committee drafts and passes their proposal of the Reform Bill. (COMPLETED)
B) The Energy and Commerce Committee drafts and passes their proposal of the Reform Bill.(COMPLETED)
C) The Education and Labor Committee drafts and passes their proposal of the Reform Bill.(COMPLETED)
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A) The House Rules Committee works with the three committees to merge their proposals into one Reform Bill. (COMPLETED)
B) The House votes on the new (merged) version of the Reform Bill.
(COMPLETED)
C) If the Reform Bill passes, it will be presented (by the House) to the House-Senate Conference Committee. (COMPLETED)
STEP 2:
A House-Senate Conference Committee will try to work out a compromise between the two groups of Congress, in consultation with the White House. (COMPLETED)
STEP 3:
The new compromise bill then has to be approved in identical form in both chambers of the Congress:
the House (COMPLETED) and the Senate (COMPLETED).
STEP 4:
The bill (passed in identical form in the House and Senate) will go to President Obama to sign in to law. (COMPLETED)
STEP 5:
President Obama signs the Health Care Reform Bill in to law. (COMPLETED)
STEP 6:
Amendments are being passed via the Reconciliation Process; for more information on this process, click here.