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| A bicameral legislature is composed of two houses. Florida's Legislature is composed of a House of Representatives and a Senate. | |
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| A "bill" stands for all legislation, including joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, resolutions, memorials, or other measures upon which a council or committee may be required to report. (House Rule 5.1) | |
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A legislative proposal (bill, resolution, memorial, etc.) that has been written at the request of a legislator or a legislative committee by the bill drafting services of the House of Representatives or the Senate. | |
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Bill drafting refers to either the Bill Drafting Service in the House of Representatives or the Office of Bill Drafting Services in the Senate. | |
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| The Legislative Information Division chronologically lists all formal actions that occur on a bill from its introduction to its final disposition. | |
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A legislative computer program providing real-time information about bills filed for all legislative sessions during the current and previous year. | BHIN |
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| Bills are numbered when filed for introduction. House bills receive odd numbers, while Senate bills receive even numbers. | |
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| The brief explanation of the contents of a bill that is prepared by the bill drafting office of each chamber and appears at the end of each bill filed for introduction. | |
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| The totality of appropriations measures passed by the Legislature. The detailed spending plan submitted by the Governor to the Legislature which recommends monetary allocations for each of the departments of the state for the next fiscal year is also known as a "budget." Using recommendations from the Governor and individual departments, each house prepares its own version of the budget. After the budgets go through the legislative process, one final version is then presented to the Governor. See Appropriations and Implementing Bills. | |
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