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HOW A BILL BECOMES A LAW IN YOUR STATE & D.C.

Become familiar with your state legislative process. View the steps in how a bill becomes a law in your state.

• Alabama http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/legislativeprocess/billpassage.html and http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/legislativeprocess/housebillpassage.html
• Alaska http://w3.legis.state.ak.us/docs/pdf/legprocess.pdf and http://w3.legis.state.ak.us/video/leg_process.wmv
• Arizona http://www.azleg.state.az.us/bill3law.htm
• Arkansas http://www.state.ar.us/house/billtolaw.html
• California http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bil2lawd.html
• Colorado http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/olls/PDF/Bill%20becomes%20law%20chart.pdf
• Connecticut http://www.cga.ct.gov/html/bill-law.htm
• Delaware http://www.legis.state.de.us/Legislature.nsf/Lookup/Bill_Process?open
• District of Columbia http://www.dccouncil.us/how.html
• Florida http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/civics/senate_idealaw.pdf and http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/civics/house_idealaw.pdf
• Georgia http://www.sos.state.ga.us/tours/html/bill.html
• Hawaii http://www.hawaii.gov/lrb/bill2law/
• Idaho http://www2.state.id.us/legislat/billlaw.html
• Illinois http://www.ilga.gov/commission/lis/98bill_law.pdf
• Indiana http://www.state.in.us/statehouse/tour/BillintoLaw.pdf
• Iowa http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/Pubinfo/bill2law.htm
• Kansas http://skyways.lib.ks.us/ksleg/KLRD/how_bill_law.pdf
• Kentucky http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/legproc/how_law.htm
• Louisiana http://www.legis.state.la.us/howbill.htm
• Maine http://www.state.me.us/legis/path/path1.htm
• Maryland http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/mdmanual/07leg/html/proc.html
• Massachusetts http://www.lwvma.org/government_of_ma/howabill.htm
• Michigan http://www.michigan.gov/som/0,1607,7-192-29701_29704-2836--,00.html
• Minnesota http://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/howbill.asp
• Mississippi http://www.ls.state.ms.us/htms/billlaw.htm
• Missouri http://www.senate.state.mo.us/bill-law.htm
• Montana http://leg.state.mt.us/css/research/faqs/howbill.asp
• Nebraska http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/learning/process.htm
• Nevada http://www.leg.state.nv.us/General/im_just_a_bill.cfm
• New Hampshire http://www.nh.gov/constitution/formofgov.html
• New Jersey http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/legislativepub/legprocess.asp
• New Mexico – must be obtained via state constitution or by accessing following link: http://legis.state.nm.us/lcs/lcsdocs/Jointrules.pdf
• New York http://www.nylobby.state.ny.us/images/billtolaw.html
• North Carolina http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/NCGAInfo/Bill-Law/bill-law.html
• North Dakota http://www.legis.nd.gov/information/general/bill-law.html
• Ohio http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/constitution.cfm?Part=2&Section=15
• Oklahoma http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/ and http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/
• Oregon http://www.leg.state.or.us/process.html
• Pennsylvania http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/VC/visitor_info/making_law/intro.htm
• Rhode Island http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly/GenMisc/genbilaw.html
• South Carolina http://www.scsenate.org/html-pages/Booklet00-01%2012th%20edition.pdf
• South Dakota http://legis.state.sd.us/General/guide.htm#HowBill
• Tennessee http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/info/billtolaw.pdf andhttp://www.legislature.state.tn.us/info/billtolaw.htm
• Texas http://www.rfatexas.org/TXbill.htm
• Utah http://www.le.state.ut.us/documents/aboutthelegislature/billtolaw.htm
• Vermont http://www.leg.state.vt.us/FieldTrip/BillToLawFlowChart.htm
• Virginia http://www.virginia.org/site/features.asp?featureID=86
• Washington http://www1.leg.wa.gov/WorkingwithLeg/bill2law.htm
• West Virginia http://www.mtstcil.org/skills/wvleg-bill2law.html
• Wisconsin http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/pubs/feature/legispro.pdf
• Wyoming http://legisweb.state.wy.us/leginfo/guide98.htm