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There is currently no direct link from publishing a Bill in Lawmaker to publishing a Bill on the Scottish Parliament’s website. See Publishing a Scottish Bill for more information on the current process.

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See Publishing UK Billsbills for more information on publishing a UK Bill.

How to publish a Bill

  1. If you haven’t already, generate a PDF of the Bill you want to publish.

  2. From the Project Tab, click on the toggle next to the working version that you wish to publish to expand the view to show the snapshot versions underneath

  3. Find the PDF snapshot that will be used for publishing and select Publish version from the drop-down menu

  4. The system will present a warning message, making sure you have selected the right PDF to mark as having been published

  5. Select Publish button to publish the chosen bill version associated to the PDF

The system will:

  • create a significant version with the label “Published”. The significant version will be visible to all users in the system and will contain both the PDF and XML version of the the bill.

  • create a snapshot version in the relevant working document’s version series.

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