14-15 Bill to Law- Conference Committee
- If the bill does not pass through the Senate it dies.
- If the bill passes through the Senate in the same form as it was passed in the House of Representatives it can go to the President who can either sign it or veto it.
- If the bill passes, but in a different form from the House of Representatives it goes to a Conference Committee.
Each Congressional chamber determines its number of conferees; there is no requirement that the number of conferees from the two chambers is equal. Sending a bill to a conference committee involves four steps, three of the steps are required, and the fourth is not. Both houses are required to complete the first three steps. Stage of disagreement.
The Speaker of the House then assigns the bill to a full committee based on the type of legislation. The committee then considers the bill and then sends it to a subcommittee made up of members of the committee. This subcommittee will hold meetings and propose changes or amendments to the bill in a process called markup.