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Sample Bill Format Italics = Directions (type Your Information or Delete) ____th Congress 1st Session Senate Bill # ____________ A Bill For An Act Entitled: Title of bill or An Amendment to the Constitution Entitled: Title of amendment In the Senate Write the date Write: Senators Your names introduced the following resolution which was referred to the Committee on fill in this blank when you know the committee name. Senate Proposal Resolved by the U.S. Senate of the United States of America, that the following article is proposed as federal law under the jurisdiction of the Untied States of America, enforceable by Executive action. For a bill: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that:" For an Amendment: "Be it amended by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that:" Section 1: Explanation of terminology- Which terms need to be defined in order to understand the bill? Section 2: What is the act going to do? Who is going to be involved / impacted / affected by the act Section 3: Where? All of U.S. or a certain area / place in the U.S.? Section 4: How is the act going to be funded? Who is going to enforce / administer this act?(Which government agency will oversee the bill and its duties?) Section 5: Penalties (if any) for non-compliance (not following the rules) of the act Section 6: Enactment Date: When will the law go into effect? END In the Senate ____ Congress 2nd Session Senate Bill # ____________ A Bill For An Act Entitled: In the Senate Date:______________ Senators writing the bill: __________________________________________________________________ introduced the following resolution which was referred to the Committee on _________________. Senate Proposal Resolved by the U.S. Senate of the United States of America, that the following article is proposed as federal law under the jurisdiction of the United States of America, enforceable by Executive action. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, that 2. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Section 1: Explanation of Terminology 6. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Section 2 : Explanation of what the bill will provide for. . . 11. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 13. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 15. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 17. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 19. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 20. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 21. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 22. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 23. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 24. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 25. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 26. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 27. Section 3: Where would this bill take effect: 28. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 29. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 30. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 31. Section 4: Governing body that will oversee the bill and its duties and how funded 32. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 33. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 34. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 35. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 36. Section 5. Penalty for non-compliance with the legislation: 37. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 38. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 39. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 40. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 41. Section 6: Enactment Date: 42. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 43. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ President’s signature Twelfth Amendment - Election of President Amendment Text | Annotations The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;--The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;--The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.--The person having the greatest number of votes as VicePresident, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States. 12th Amendment Annotations Election of President This Amendment, 1 which supersedes clause 3 of Sec. 1 of Article II, was adopted so as to make impossible the situation occurring after the election of 1800 in which Jefferson and Burr received tie votes in the electoral college, thus throwing the selection of a President into the House of Representatives, despite the fact that the electors had intended Jefferson to be President and Burr to be Vice- President. 2 The difference between the procedure which it defines and that which was laid down originally is in the provision it makes for a separate designation by the electors of their choices for President and Vice-President, respectively. As a consequence of the disputed election of 1870, Congress has enacted a statute providing that if the vote of a State is not certified by the governor under seal, it shall not be counted unless both Houses of Congress concur. 3 Footnotes [Footnote 1] A number of provisions of the Amendment have been superseded by the Twentieth Amendment. [Footnote 2] Cunningham, Election of 1800, in 1 History of American Presidential Elections 101 (A. Schlesinger ed., 1971). [Footnote 3] 3 U.S.C. Sec. 15. - See more at: http://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment12.html#sthash.x56mYGVb.dpuf