How A Wyoming Bill Becomes Law, A Painful Process

If you're old enough, you'll remember the Schoolhouse Rock video "I'm Just a Bill." That clever cartoon taught us all how Washington DC was supposed to work. Though it doesn't always.

Here in Wyoming, the process is almost exactly the same. Another clever video from the group Honor Wyoming is a slightly different take and is a lot scarier to watch than the Schoolhouse Rock cartoon.

See the Schoolhouse Rock cartoon below, then scroll on down for the one from Honor Wyoming.

The only points off I'll give for the Honor Wyoming video is that, to me, it gives the impression that all bills are good and should be passed. I'm betting this is not what they intended. Many bills are garbage and deserve their death in our legislative process.

Other states and our federal government have full-time legislators. That's why and how so many garbage ideas get passed into law.

Passing a bill is a long and complicated process. It's meant to be. Wyoming also has short legislative sessions just once a year for the same reason: to keep garbage bills from becoming law.

Below is the cartoon video from Honor Wyoming.

Regardless of the dark nature of the video, what Honor Wyoming portrays there is true and realistic.

Take any bill on the day it is presented, then have a look at it when it gets through the process, and you'll really find the same bill. So many changes are made along the way that what comes out in the end is often very different from the original intent.