draft bill
Preliminary legislative text
A draft bill is a proposed law that has been written but not yet formally introduced to a legislature.
It represents the working version of legislation, subject to revision before official submission: The committee circulated a draft bill on healthcare reform.
Once introduced, it becomes simply a bill.
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- proposalFormal plan for consideration
- amendmentChange to official text
- committeeAppointed group for duties
- committee hearingOfficial legislative questioning session
Capitol Hill · legislative session · senator · vote · lobby · hearing · clause · line item · revision · markup · sponsor · chamber · passage · veto · executive action · law · policy · reform
- legislationacts, laws, statutes, act, law
- parliamentary recordscommittee report, parliamentary debates, proceedings, minutes, transcripts
- Congresssenator, representative, senators, House, committee
legislative status
draft billstatute
Enacted written rule
act of parliament · current law · public law · law of the land
draft, bill, drafts, drafted, drafting, drafter, drafty, draftee, bills