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Information about Bill Status XML Bulk Data including the XML User Guide.
https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS
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To Include Bill Version in Bill Status Document #45

Closed ghost closed 5 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

Legislation may be changed or amended as it makes its way through the legislative process. You will sometimes see different bill text versions in the Text tab of a bill record. A list of the different versions are in the link.

Versions are needed for accessing bills the following xml pages: Bill Summary (In URL) CONGRESSIONAL BILLS - BULK DATA

llaplant commented 7 years ago

Thank you for the suggestion.

aosingh commented 6 years ago

Hi @llaplant

Are there any updates on this enhancement ?

Thank you. Abhishek

llaplant commented 6 years ago

It is on the backlog but not scheduled yet. Would a service that provides a json or xml list of available bill versions be helpful?

dwillis commented 6 years ago

Yes, particularly if it indicated the order (most recent version first, for example).

dwillis commented 6 years ago

@llaplant is there any update on this?

llaplant commented 6 years ago

@dwillis not yet, but check back mid-July after the LDTC18 conference. @jonquandt

dwillis commented 6 years ago

@llaplant @jonquandt Any update on this?

jonquandt commented 6 years ago

@dwillis -- we recently launched our API. We do have a planned feature for listing all available bill versions based on a BILLSTATUS packageid or Congress number and bill number.

See https://github.com/usgpo/api/issues/3

Any feedback or input you have on that would be great as we start looking at developing it.

Currently, all BILLS package summaries returned by the API include a link to the related BILLSTATUS package.

https://api.govinfo.gov/packages/BILLS-115hconres1eh/summary?api_key=DEMO_KEY

"related": { "billStatusLink": "https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/hconres/BILLSTATUS-115hconres1.xml" },

dwillis commented 6 years ago

Thanks, @jonquandt - what about in the bulk data?

jonquandt commented 6 years ago

@dwillis - we're looking at the options for this one, and I'll let you know when we'll have something more firm to share, including deployment timeframe.

dwillis commented 6 years ago

@jonquandt Thanks!

llaplant commented 5 years ago

Proposed addition of <textVersions>. Check out the sample files and let us know what you think.

dwillis commented 5 years ago

@llaplant Thanks! I think that syntax and structure are really great and would support their inclusion.

llaplant commented 5 years ago

Enabling for 116th Congress and reprocessing existing files 116 BILLSTATUS XML.

llaplant commented 5 years ago

116 and 115 should be good. Will appear in 114 and 113 next time files are reprocessed. https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/hr/BILLSTATUS-116hr123.xml https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/hr/BILLSTATUS-115hr123.xml

dwillis commented 5 years ago

Thanks!!