What is the primary function of the General Assembly?

• A. Enforcing laws
• B. Interpreting laws
• C. Lawmaking
• D. Proposing budgets

Answer: (C)

The General Assembly is the state’s lawmaking body. Its main job is to draft, debate, and pass bills that become laws, shaping how the state is run and how people are governed. While it can propose budgets and appropriations as part of the lawmaking process, its primary role is creating statutes—the rules that everyone in the state must follow.

Enforcing laws is handled by the executive branch (the governor and state agencies), and interpreting laws is the job of the judiciary (courts). Budgets come through the legislative process as part of funding those laws, but without making laws first, there wouldn’t be a framework to fund or apply.