Interesting legislative stats from the Auditor General

Apropos of nothing, I found these statistics interesting.

They come from Auditor General Bill Holland's audit of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Here is the Senate link and here is the House link.

There were 2158 Senate bills filed in 2005 (as of June 30th).

1476 of them passed out of a substantive committee. 68%

491 passed out of the Senate. 23%

273 passed out of the House as well. 13% of all bills, and more than half of all bills that passed the Senate.

And 255 were signed into law -- meaning Blagojevich has not vetoed many Senate bills and 12% of all Senate bills introduced became law.

On the House side:

3905 bills were introduced (as of June 30th).

2227 passed out of a committee. 57%.

678 passed the entire House. 17%

443 passed the Senate as well. 11%

but only 54 bills were signed into law, but that must be a mistake of some sort. I'm guessing that lots of House bills were signed after June 30th.

Even given how many shell bills have been filed that pump up the number of bills, I'm surprised to see how high the percentages of passed bills are. I think that's a good thing.

I'd be curious to see how many of the bills signed into law were essentially party-line votes and how many were good-idea bills that earned essentially unanimous support.