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LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
Each year, Pennsylvania's 50 senators and 203 representatives introduce
and consider hundreds of new "bills," which may be passed
during a General Session and enacted as laws, end in defeat or die
in committee without further action. Each new bill is introduced
or sponsored by an individual legislator or group of legislators.
The sponsor(s) sends the idea to the Legislative Reference Bureau
(LRB), a non-partisan legal office that drafts and publishes the
bill. In any two-year session, the bureau prepares about 70 million
pages of bills, amendments, resolutions and citations, along with
weekly bill summaries.
The bill is given a name and assigned a number, then goes through
a lengthy process of review, consideration and voting by the General
Assembly. If passed by both the Senate and House of Representatives,
the bill is enacted into law with the signature of the Governor
of Pennsylvania.
Many new environmental and water-related bills are introduced each
year. As the bills go through the review process, very often they
are revised, amended or updated to reflect changes or new information.
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