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Within Lawmaker, the auto-apply process consists of the following steps:
You select Select which amendments to attempt to auto-apply from the Amendment Manager tab. The current status of the amendments (Draft, Submitted, Tabled, Agreed) has no impact on auto-apply; amendments at any stage in their lifecycle can be auto-applied to a bill version.
You select Click ‘Apply Amendments’ from the Amendment Actions menu, then select whether to ‘Create a new bill version’ or apply to an existing bill version. You can use the latter option to apply additional amendments to an already created amended copy. This gives you more control over the order in which to apply amendments, which can assist with troubleshooting or allow you to apply amendments in batches.
Lawmaker will attempt to apply the selected amendments to the bill version and a toastie notification will appear on-screen telling you how many were successful. You can then open the newly created amended version in the Editor.
In the Editor, successfully applied amendments will appear as red and blue tracked changes in the body of the bill, and will have corresponding numbered cards on the right-hand side of the window, in the ‘Inline Amendments’ pane. Amendments which could not be applied will appear in the ‘Review’ pane, with an error message. The Inline Amendments pane allows you to click a card and jump to the applied amendment.
Assuming you are happy with the applied amendments, you can click ‘Accept all’ on the Inline Amendments pane to apply the changes and remove the track change mark-up from the bill version. This will create a clean ‘as amended’ copy of the bill.
You can make further manual edits to the text of this version, before or after you have accepted the applied amendments, if you need to.
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