Legal and Ethical Concepts in Nursing administration

Process of Development of Law:

Relationship and Difference of the 2 Chambers:
1. House of Representative
2. Senate
The two chambers are fundamentally equal in their legislative roles and functions.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SENATE
Only the House can originate revenue
only the Senate confirms presidential
legislation
nominations and approves treaties
The enactment of law always requires both chambers to separately agree to the same bill in the
same form before presenting it to the President.
Both Has the power to set its own RULES
NUMERICAL MAJORITY- To process
Senate rules and procedures, on the
legislation relatively quickly
other hand, favor deliberation over quick
action, as they provide significant procedural
leverage to individual Senators.
Speaker of the House
Majority Leader
Set The policy Agenda and decide which
Propose Policy Agenda
proposal will receive floor consideration.
INTRODUCTION AND REFERRAL OF BILL
The bill are referred by the Speaker, on the advice of the
The bill is referred to only the
nonpartisan parliamentarian, to all committees that have
committee with jurisdiction
jurisdiction over the provisions in the bill, as determined by
over the issue that
the chambers standing rules and past referral decisions.
predominates in the bill.
Most bills fall under the jurisdiction of one committee.
Any member of the congress can introduce legislation. The person or persons who
introduce the bill are the sponsors; any member of the same body( House or Senate ) can add
his or her name after the day of introduction as cosponsor.
COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION/ ACTION
Hearing for Strengths and Weaknesses of a
proposal from selected parties agencies,
industries, citizens
Hearing are also a way to spotlight legislation
to colleagues, the public, and the press
The Chairman of the committee whether there will be a hearing on the bill and whether
there will be mark up. Usually, a subcommittee holds the hearing. Sometimes a bill is
marked up both in subcommittee and then in full committee, but it can have action taken only

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COMMITTEE REPORT
The committee chairmans staff writes a report of the bill describing the intent of
legislation, the legislative history such as hearings in the committee, the impact on existing
laws and programs, and the position of the majority of members of the committee.
CALENDARS AND SCHEDULING
In the Senate, majority party
In the House, majority party leadership
leadership does not use the same set of rules
decides which bills the House will consider,
as the House to bring bills to the floor.
and in what order.
HOUSE FLOOR
A senator can offer an amendment
May offer an amendment to the bill only if he without warning so long as the amendment is
has obtain permission from the rules
germane to the underlying bill.
committee.
REFERRAL TO THE OTHER CHAMBER
When the house or the senate passes a bill it is referred to the other chamber where it
usually follows the same route through committee and floor action. This chamber may
approved the bill as received, reject it, ignore it, or amend it before passing it.
CONFERENCE ON A BILL
When the agreement on the changes of the bill is reached, a conference report is
prepared describing the committee members recommendations for changes
ACTION BY THE PRESIDENT
After the conference report has been approved by both the house and the senate, the
final bill is sent to the president. If the president approves if the legislation, he signs it and it
becomes law.
OVERRIDING A VETO
If the president vetoes a bill, Congress may decide to attempt to override the veto.
This requires a two-thirds roll call vote of the members who are present in sufficient numbers
for a quorum.

Summarized by:
Kevin John H. Sabiniano, RN

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