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Bill Path

Put the steps in order — then find where bills actually die.

Skill this builds
Trace a bill through the real legislative stages in order and locate the stage where a specific bill stopped moving.
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About 8 minutes · Standards: C3, NCSS · Plays offline

Use the up and down buttons to put the steps in the order they actually happen, then check your order. Every step tells you afterward what it means and where things get stuck.

Playing as

Your Beacon

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How a federal bill becomes law

House-originated bill, the ordinary path

  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2Referral to committee
  3. 3Subcommittee hearings and markup
  4. 4Committee vote to report
  5. 5Floor scheduling and debate
  6. 6Passage in the first chamber
  7. 7The second chamber repeats the whole process
  8. 8Resolving the differences
  9. 9Presentment to the President
  10. 10Signature, veto, or the ten-day rule

The point

Notice how many separate places a bill can quietly stop. 'Nobody voted on it' is usually not a conspiracy — it's a committee calendar. That is also the level at which one persistent constituent can still matter.