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The Origination Clause, sometimes called the Revenue Clause, [1] [2] is Article I, Section 7, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution.The clause says that all bills for raising revenue must start in the U.S. House of Representatives, but the U.S. Senate may propose or concur with amendments, as in the case of other bills.
Any member of the House can introduce a bill at any time, while the House is in session, by placing (or most likely having a page place) a signed copy of the bill in the "hopper" at the side of the Clerk's desk on the Rostrum. Other members of the House may co-sponsor any bill to be introduced in the House by a member.
In the House, a bill is introduced by a member placing a hard copy into a wooden box called a hopper. [5] In the Senate, the bill is placed on the desk of the presiding officer. [6] The bill must bear the signature of the member introducing it to verify that the member actually intended to introduce the bill.
A bill must be passed in identical form by both the House of Representatives and the Senate. It is common practice for each House to pass its own version of a bill, and then to refer the two versions to a conference committee, which resolves disagreements between the two versions, and drafts a compromise bill; the compromise bill can then be voted upon and passed by both Houses in identical form.
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As with the United States Constitution, either house may originate bills (Section 31), but bills to raise revenue must originate in the House of Representatives (Section 33). Section 39 allows a bill to take effect immediately upon the Governor's signature if the bill passes both chambers by a two-thirds vote, unless otherwise specified in the ...
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