- red: National Council → Nationalrat
- green: Federal Council → Bundesrat
- suspensive veto
- like a stop! button for the law
- is overruled by another transmission
Authentication … approval of Federal President promulgation … official publication
Credit: Aaron Meekins
- Legislation process on a federal level
- Who can give the initiative for a law?
- Parliament
- Federal Council
- Popular initiative
- Government (all of the ministers)
- Legislative proposal happens
- First reading
- Referral to a committee
- Preliminary deliberations in committee
- Deliberations in plenary
- Voting
- 2nd and 3rd reading, adoption by the National Council
- No right of objection
- Federal budget
- Rules of procedure of the national council
- Transmission to the Federal council
- Right to a suspensive veto
- National council deliberates once more
- Final insistence
- Authentication + Promulgation
- National council deliberates once more
- Right of objection
- 8 weeks to deliberate
- Right to pause
- Right to a suspensive veto