If you wrote a proposed bill, and then shredded it without anyone seeing it, that would be a draft.
Saying there's a draft, just means that someone somewhere has written something that they'd like a congressperson to use as the start of the official process.
For any legislation that has multiple positions, there are usually multiple drafts. One by each group that has an opinion. Eventually one or more congresspeople take one or more of these drafts, and submit it for consideration as a bill, it is then a bill. This starts the main process of hearings, editing, changes, merging with other bills, etc.
see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ for a good explination of the process.
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Saying there's a draft, just means that someone somewhere has written something that they'd like a congressperson to use as the start of the official process.
For any legislation that has multiple positions, there are usually multiple drafts. One by each group that has an opinion. Eventually one or more congresspeople take one or more of these drafts, and submit it for consideration as a bill, it is then a bill. This starts the main process of hearings, editing, changes, merging with other bills, etc.
see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ for a good explination of the process.