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Explain the Process—Finish filling in the steps your idea would have to go through to become a law at both the federal and state levels of government.

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1. Bill Introduction: You write your federal representative or senator about your idea, who introduces the idea as a bill in their chamber of Congress. 1. Bill Introduction: You write your state legislator about your idea, who introduces the idea as a bill in the state legislature.

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4. The House Rules Committee sets the rules for debate on the bill in the House. 3. Committees debate and edit the bill.

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6. 5. The state Senate approves the bill.

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1. You write your federal representative or senator about your idea.

2. The bill goes to the House for action

3. Committees debate and edit the bill.

4. You write your state legislator about your idea.

5. The state Senate approves the bill.

The bill is first written by the representative of the senator. Then it is introduced to either the house or the senate. The house analyses the bill by conducting debates and then the bill is change, rebuilt, or sent back to the committee.

In case everything looks good in the bill, it is then sent to the governor or the state legislator.

State Senate reviews the bill and in case of any query questions the law writer and when convinced, it passes the bill

Step-by-step explanation:

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