Hi, I'm Bill from Burlingame and I'll be taking you on a trip through the California Legislature. Like our County Board of Supervisors, the State Legislature represents people and makes laws. The Board of Supervisors does this for the County and the State Legislature for the entire State of California.

The State Legislature is made up of two houses, called the Assembly and the Senate. Ideas, which are called bills, must first pass the Assembly and the Senate. Then the Governor has to approve them to become laws. If the Governor does not approve a bill, it can still become law, but only if both the Assembly and the Senate pass it again with a lot of votes (two-thirds of the members in each house).