03.04 How Are Laws Made? Create a New Law Template

Steps:

Choose an Idea—Name the idea for a new law or policy you selected from the spinning wheel.

Explain Your Idea—Why would this idea make a good law? Use complete sentences to explain.

Summarize the Discussion—Discuss the idea with a trusted adult. Write down some thoughts or details about the idea from your discussion. Use complete sentences.

Explain the Process—Finish filling in the steps your idea would have to go through to become a law at both the federal and state levels of government.

Federal

State

1. Bill Introduction: You write your federal representative or senator about your idea, who introduces the idea as a bill in their chamber of Congress.

1. Bill Introduction: You write your state legislator about your idea, who introduc