What are companion bills?

A companion bill is a second copy of a bill, filed in the other chamber. For example, a House bill may have a matching Senate bill.

How we show them

• A bill's page names its companion, with a link to it.
• Following one follows both. When you follow a bill with a companion, the companion is added to your list too, so you do not miss action in the other chamber.

Tennessee, Wisconsin, Florida and Minnesota

In these four states the House and Senate usually work their own versions in parallel, each through its own committees. When one chamber passes its version, the other chamber often takes up that bill in place of its own.

So the bill's journey shows two tracks side by side, one per chamber, each following that chamber's own bill. A floor vote reads, for example, "Floor (as SB0231)" when the chamber voted on the companion. One version can look stalled while the other is moving: that is normal.

Letters follow the bill that is being acted on. If the Senate committee is about to hear the Senate version, your letter goes to that committee.

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