The Life of a Bill
How a bill becomes a law in California, and how it works in our simulation — where your bill's journey ends at the Senate floor. Click any stage to see what's happening and what your role should be doing about it.
In real California
In the simulation
Beyond the simulation
Click any box on the map to open that stage in detail. The gold-washed zones are the session's own business — things happening around that part of the map, not steps a bill takes. In real life the bill would continue on to the Assembly and the Governor — the map stops where the simulation stops.