Legislative Data Export
eLobbyist makes available weekly archives of CSV data for all bills and related data available in the system for a particular session.
You may be also be interested in the LegiScan API for a real-time interface into our national legislative database.
Archive Contents
Each archive will contain six (6) quoted comma separated value files. Note the contents of these files may change over the course of testing. Below is the base contents of the files that will be provided. Feedback and additional requests may add to the export contents over time. Such changes will be documented to the cotent listing below.
bills.csv - Master Bill List
bill_number - The common bill number
bill_id - Unique eLobbyist internal identifier for each bill
title - The short title/summary of the bill
history.csv - History Steps Per Bill
bill_id - Unique eLobbyist internal identifier for each bill (from bills.csv)
date - Date the action occurred
action - The actual history action step
sponsors.csv - Sponsors Per Bill
bill_id - Unique eLobbyist internal identifier for each bill (from bills.csv)
sponsor_id - Unique eLobbyist internal identifier for each sponsor (from people.csv)
people.csv - Individual People Records
sponsor_id - Unique eLobbyist internal identifier for each sponsor
name - Full name of the sponsor
rollcalls.csv - Overview of Roll Call Votes
bill_id - Unique eLobbyist internal identifier for each bill (from bills.csv)
roll_call_id - Unique eLobbyist internal identifier for each roll call
date - The date the roll call vote occurred
description - A text description of what motion the vote was for
yea - Number of yea votes
nay - Number of nay votes
nv - Number of not voting
votes.csv - Vote Details Per Roll Call
roll_call_id - Unique eLobbyist internal identifier for each roll call (from rollcalls.csv)
sponsor_id - Unique eLobbyist internal identifier for each sponsor (from people.csv)
vote - Type of vote cast (1 = Yea, 2 = Nay, 3 = NV/Abstain, 4 = Absent/Excused)