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Introduction

If you are a Parliament user, you will have access to the “Amendment status” Amendment Status panel in the right-hand panel of the Editor where you can update an amendment’s status e.g. tabling (lodging) or recording an outcome e.g. “Agreed to”.  

How to table

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amendments

  1. Select one or more (submitted) amendments that you would like to update and click on the 'Amendment Actions' open them in a temporary list by selecting Amendment Actions > Create temporary list from the dropdown menu in the top right of the Amendments tab and select 'Create temporary list'

  2. Place your cursor in the first amendment in the list and click on the “Amendment Status” panel in the right-hand panel in the Editor

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To update status individually

  1. (From step 2 above) Select the status you would like to change your amendment to e.g. “Table” or “Reject”

  2. Move to the next amendment using:

    1. The Next >  or < Previous button at the top of the “Amendment Status” panel

    2. Using keyboard short cuts

      1. Alt + k to move to “Next” amendment, or

      2. Alt + h to move to  “Previous” amendment

  3. When you have finished making changes, click on the Save button

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To update statuses in

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one-go

  1. (From step 2 above) Select a Submitted to Draft from the bulk action from the Bulk update statuses drop-down menu dropdown and click on ‘Update’ Update

  2. When you have finished making changes, click on the Save button

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Info
  • Amendments must have been submitted before Parliament user can table

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  • or reject them

  • The changes to amendment statuses will only be applied when you click ‘Save’

  • To undo a selection, click on the button again to de-select it.

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Use the button called “Table” to lodge amendments

  • Bulk update will only work on amendments that have the appropriate status e.g.

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  • “Submitted to

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  • Tabled” the amendment’s status must be

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  • Submitted.  If there was one or more amendment that didn’t have the status of

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  • Submitted but the rest did – only the amendments with the status =

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  • Submitted would be updated in this context.

Commons Amendments only

  • There is an additional state "Ready for Publishing" which the PPU will use once they've finished setting an amendment and it is considered ready for publishing.  The 'Marshalled List' logic has been updated to only populate the list if Amendments have the 'Ready for Publishing' status (and no longer the 'Tabled' status)