Step 5: House and Senate Bills Reconciled and Passed
(this step will be completed in the future)
If the House and Senate pass different versions of a health care bill (which is likely), these bills will go through a process called "a conference," where they will reconcile the different legislation into one bill. That one bill will then go back to the House and to the Senate for final passage. If the legislation is modified in the next round of votes by the House of the Senate, the alternate body will then need to vote on the amended legislation (or a subsequent conference will need to be held).
We expect this step to be completed in November or early December.
What You Can Do To Help
As with above, we will need all the tools in our arsenal to ensure the Obama/Health Care for America Now principles make it into the final, reconciled bill and that this bill passes both the House and the Senate.
