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.

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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)

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