There must be a bizillion documents titled "How a Bill Becomes Law", or
something similar to that -- almost as many as there are "Welcome to My Home
Page" documents. The following one is written, however, by Charles W.
Johnson, Parliamentarian, U.S. House of Representatives, and was Revised and
Updated January 31, 2000, which is current relative to the dates mentioned
in the query, October of 1999, so it might be the among the most
authoritative.
http://www.law.pitt.edu/infanti/howlaws.htm
Once you have it open in your browser, use its Find command to look for
"markup" and you'll be at the beginning of the relevant section.
There are also many good pathfinders and bibliographies for legislative
history research. One of them is Researching Federal Legislative History,
by Sally Kelley, Revised 2000, National Center for Agricultural Law
Research and Information Bibliographies Project, University of Arkansas
http://law.uark.edu/arklaw/aglaw/bibguide/leghist.htm
T. R. Halvorson
LexNotes
Synoptic Text Information Services, Inc.
mailto:trh@lexnotes.com
http://www.lexnotes.com
http://www.lexnotes.com/tr.shtml
Author of:
Law of the Super Searchers: The Online Secrets of Top Legal Researchers
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From: <Stephanie_Mutty@ca1.uscourts.gov>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:31 AM
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> I am doing some legislative history research for a patron. A bill
> introduced in Congress on October 9, 1999 was considered by the House
> Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual
Property,
> and reported out by that committee on October 25, 1999. The bill was
> passed by the House the next day. The language of the bill as printed
> and discussed in the committee report differs from the language that
> was passed (and that appears in the Congressional Record) the next
day!
>
> Are there any records of such changes (which do not appear in the
> Congressional Record)? I think I have heard that there are "marked
> up" versions of bills. Does this refer to bills changed by the whole
> House? or in Committee? And are these accessible? Also, are there
> transcripts of Committee Meetings, and are these accessible?
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