'debate draft' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a document that outlines the ideas and arguments for a debate. For example, "We are in the process of writing the debate draft for the school-wide competition on Friday."
They debate, draft, and vote on laws at the federal and state levels.
But as they meet often, involve civil servants, and debate draft policies, the committees could acquire considerable power.
The 20 members would debate, draft and vote on policies and projects ranging from antiterrorism initiatives to missile defense.
The meeting called for the convening of a "congress of the peoples of Russia" to debate, draft, and take action on national issues.
The synod will meet to debate draft legislation on women bishops on Monday, which, if passed, could theoretically see the church's first women bishops consecrated by the end of next year.
In the meantime, California would end up with a patchwork of constantly shifting rules varying from one region to another, each drafted by local officials with little expertise, instead of environmental, land-use or administrative regulations that apply statewide after having been the subject of public hearing, open debate, drafting, discussion and redrafting.
The American Law Institute is currently debating draft model penal-code sexual-assault provisions (I am an adviser on this project), which define consent as a positive, freely given agreement to engage in a specific act of sexual penetration or sexual contact.
"There are scary instances and the issue is that Parliament's position, or news that's being leaked from parliamentary committees debating draft legislation to protect women and to make family violence a crime, is scandalous," Moukalled noted.
Every subject could be debated, drafted, amended and voted on by members over the Internet.
From the start, and through all three publicly debated drafts of the letter, Bishop O'Connor was regarded as the conservative, promilitary voice, the counterweight to another auxiliary bishop on the committee, the pacifist Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit.
Both houses are able to debate any draft law put before them, but only the lower house may alter draft documents.
