Question on the gun bill(and bills in general)

[d4mo]

So I've been trying to follow this pretty closely(pro gun btw!) but I'm confused.

S.649 is the Safe Communities safe schools act or w/e they call it.

As far as I know this hasn't even been voted on yet, and yet they are voting on amendments to S.649(S.715, S.725 that both were rejected).

How are they voting on amendments to a bill that hasn't even been passed yet?

 

[lupi]

Because you can't vote for amendmants to a bill that has already passed.

 

[Fern]

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How are they voting on amendments to a bill that hasn't even been passed yet?

What the above poster said.

Amendments are voted on to proposed bills. Some amendments are necessary to get the 9total with amendments) bill passed. Other amendments are designed to kill the bill.

If a bill has already passed, any amendment to it must be 'stand alone' legislation.

E.g., if I voted for bill 1234 and it passes, no way can my vote for 1234 be automatically attributed to some new amendment. (I might have approved of the original bill, but not this amendment. Moreover, many amendments have got exactly zero to do with the subject of the bill anyway. Unrelated crap gets slipped in.). So, the whole process must start anew for an amendment if the bill has already passed.

Fern