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The Speaker of the House or the Senate Pro Tem (depending on where the bill starts) will assign the bill to a committee that is familiar with the subject. For instance, a bill on day care regulations would most likely go to the Health and Welfare Committee.

Sometimes there are several committees which have expertise in the matter. Then it's up to the leadership to decide where the bill goes. Depending on whether leadership likes or doesn't like a bill, it can sometimes be referred to a committee where it has a better or lesser chance of passage. Those are the benefits of being in the majority!

All revenue raising bills, however, must originate in the House of Representatives in the Revenue and Taxation Committee.

All bills dealing with the state budget are referred to the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee.

By the way, the Idaho Constitution requires that all bills be "read" out loud 3 times before a final vote. Historians say that was probably because there were no copy machines in the early days and so that's how lawmakers learned what was in a bill.

Nowadays, however, bills are rarely read out loud. The 3-step procedure now serves to slow the process down enough to let everyone learn about a bill. There have been lawmakers, however, who, in protest for an action they do not like, have forced clerks to read bills out loud. This obviously slows the business of the House or Senate considerably!

Great! Your bill is now on its way to a committee.