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For Bills with a lot of amendments, the Amendment Manager may become long and difficult to use. You may wish to use the filter options to make it more manageable and useful to you. Here are two suggestions for how to filter your Amendment Manager. There are numerous other ways you may wish to filter your Amendment Manager.This page has information for:

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For more information on all the ways to filter amendments, see hereClick here for other ways you may wish to filter your Amendment Manager.

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Filtering by status

Each amendment has a status (eg, Draft, On Hold, Submitted are the ones relevant to PCO). You may filter your Amendment Manager according to the status of each amendment. The steps below will show you how to filter to Draft status.

To filter by status:

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  1. You will need to set the “status” and flag the amendments as follows:

Amendment type

Status

Flagged

Government amendment

Draft

No

Handout amendment

Draft

Yes

Superseded or discarded amendment

On hold

No

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For more information see here.

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  1. Filter your amendments to show only those with “Draft” status.

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titleHow to quickly filter amendments to Draft only

Use the quick filter option at the top-right of the Amendments Manager tab:

This means that:

  • your amendments manager Amendment Manager is now more manageable,

  • superseded or discarded amendments will not appear on your list (and the “on hold” status means they cannot accidentally be lodged),

  • handout amendments will still be visible so you can keep track of your drafting them (but flagging it prevents it from being accidentally lodged),

  • submitted amendments will not appear in your amendment managerAmendment Manager.

If you wish to see all amendments, you will just need to change the Quick Filter to show “All amendments”.

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You can also filter the Amendment Manager to show the amendments in a particular LoDA (List of Draft Amendments - i.e. the name you have given the list in your Amendment Workspace tab).

To filter by LoDA:

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  1. Click on the “Filter” button at the top right of your Amendment Manager tab.

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  1. Select the List you wish to view.

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  1. Click Apply.

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Note that the filter will stick. To see other amendments not in the list, you will need to change the Filter settings or click “clear”.

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