Question

A committee chairperson may call for hearings, or discussions, about a bill. which of these statements is true regarding bills in committee?

Answer 1

Committee chairpersons decide if a bill will get a hearing or not.

Step-by-step explanation:

Committee chairpersons don't have to bring the bill before the committee members if they don't want to. If they don't, the bill is considered to be dead in committee.

Answer 2

When a Bill has received its Second Reading in the House of Commons, it reaches its committee stage. The Bill is then usually sent to a public bill committee for consideration. However, some bills are considered not by a public bill committee but by a Committee of the Whole House; in this case, amendments are proposed and discussed by the entire House of Commons. This applies to some key clauses of Finance Bills, which are proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer every year in March/April, and to some occasional bills such as the 1998/99 House of Lords Reform Bill.