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PayrollOrg's Demystifying the System: Legislative Process for Payroll Professionals

Understanding how a bill becomes a law is important for insight into the many laws and regulations impacting payroll management and to push for adoption of payroll best practices by government decision-makers. This report highlights the general steps in the process and explains process variations at the federal, state, local, and territorial levels.   
   
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