Are Bundestag and Bundesrat separate things or that's a typo?

[jokedeity@lemm.ee]

Are Bundestag and Bundesrat separate things or that's a typo?

[federalreverse@feddit.org]

They are separate.

• Bundestag – parlient with representatives of individual election districts
• Bundesrat — council of federal state representatives

[lordosslor@lemmy.ml]

No, they are separate: The Bundestag (the more prominent and more widely known institution) is a parliament on elected the federal level. The Bundesrat is made up of representatives sent by the individual state governments.
The Bundesrat acts a a check to the Bundestag, as it has to approve laws proposed by the Bundestag before they can take effect.

I might hav missed some details but that's what I can remember right now.

[rumschlumpel@feddit.org]

The Bundesrat acts a a check to the Bundestag, as it has to approve laws proposed by the Bundestag before they can take effect.

Only specific laws, they don't have a say for most day-to-day politics.

[barsoap@lemm.ee]

I mean they're the states, they (and the municipalities) are doing pretty much all of the day-to-day stuff. You're paying taxes to your state of residence, not the federation, the school system is run by your state, not the federation, the vast majority of roads are municipal or state roads, all boots-on-the-ground police work is done by state police or at least according to state law (aside from the borders and the train networks), the list goes on and on.

The short version is that the Bundestag passes laws that only affect the federation on its own, when both federation and states are affected it's Bundestag+Bundesrat, and when only states are affected neither decide, the state parliaments do, either separately for themselves or they enter treaties with each other.