Editing Committee (section)

===Conference committee===
Governments at the national level may have a ''conference committee''. A conference committee in a [[bicameralism|bicameral]] legislature is responsible for creating a compromise version of a particular [[bill (proposed law)|bill]] when each house has passed a different version.

[[United States congressional conference committee|A conference committee in the United States Congress]] is a temporary panel of negotiators from the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] and the [[United States Senate|Senate]]. Unless one chamber decides to accept the other's original bill, the compromise version must pass both chambers after leaving the conference committee. This committee is usually composed of the senior members of the standing committees that originally considered the legislation in each chamber.

Other countries that use conference committees include France, Germany, Japan, and Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Bicameralism|last = Tsebelis|first = George|publisher = Cambridge University Press|year = 1997|isbn = 9780521589727|location = Cambridge, United Kingdom|pages = 178–179|last2 = Money|first2 = Jeannette|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eL_eT6JMTzIC&pg=PA178}}</ref> In Canada, conference committees have been unused since 1947.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.revparl.ca/english/issue.asp?art=1297&param=190|title = Reviving Conference Committees|date =Autumn 2008|access-date = 21 December 2015|website = revparl.ca|publisher = [[Canadian Parliamentary Review]]|last = Hays|first = Hon. Dan}}</ref> In the [[European Union]] (EU) [[European Union legislative procedure|legislative process]], a similar committee is called a 'Conciliation Committee', which carries out the [[Trilogue meeting|Trilogue]] negotiations in case the [[Council of the European Union|Council]] does not agree with a text amended and adopted by the [[European Parliament]] at a second reading. Although the practice has fallen out of favour in other Australian Parliaments, the [[Parliament of South Australia]] still regularly appoints a "Conference of Managers" from each House to negotiate compromises on disputed bills in private.<ref>{{cite journal |last = Crump |first = Rick | title = Why the Conference Procedure Remains the Preferred Method for Resolving Disputes Between the Two Houses of the South Australian Parliament |url = https://www.aspg.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/08-RickCrump-SA-Parl-disputes-completed-25-July-07.pdf |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180401150021/https://www.aspg.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/08-RickCrump-SA-Parl-disputes-completed-25-July-07.pdf |archive-date = 1 April 2018 |year=2007 |volume=22|journal = Australasian Parliamentary Review |issue = 2 |pages=120–136 |access-date = 21 February 2021 }}</ref>

==== Different use of term ====
In organizations, the term "conference committee" may have a different meaning. This meaning may be associated with the conferences, or [[Convention (meeting)|conventions]], that the organization puts together. These committees that are responsible for organizing such events may be called "conference committees".