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Introduction

Publishing amendments on parliament’s website is a 2 stage process. The first stage is to publish in Lawmaker. The second stage (which can be done at any point - even before you have published the amendments in Lawmaker) is to schedule an update in LegHub.

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The amendment list should be published in Lawmaker in order for the website to display the amendments.

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How to send a PDF to print services - Lords

  1. When you have generated a PDF and it has been approved

  2. Download the PDF

  3. Rename it according to the approved naming convention: [Bill title] – Amdts – [List number] e.g. Energy Bill [HL] – Amdts – HL Bill 39(a)

  4. Attach it to the product distribution email and send it to the usual distribution list along with any other lists due out that day

How to publish an amendment list in Lawmaker

  1. From the ‘Official Lists’ Official Lists tab: find the amendment list that you just created.  It will be a green document on the left-hand side of the screen and probably the top of the list if it was the most recently generated 

  2. Click on the black triangle to the left of the list name which will expand the view to show all snapshot versions linked to that document 

  3. Locate your PDF snapshot version  

  4. Select “Publish version” Publish version from the Actions dropdown menu (you might have to scroll to find that option).   

  5. Click on “Publish” Publish on the warning message 

  6. Once publishing has completed, a new grey ‘published’ published version will appear on the right-hand side of the screen 

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Hints and tips

  • If you don’t see your recently created snapshot version, click on F5 to refresh your browser.  If you still don’t see it, generate another PDF from the ‘Actions’ dropdown menu and be sure to leave the checkbox for “Record snapshot version” checked this time. 

  • Publish version only appears against snapshot versions so make sure you are selecting the correct snapshot

  • If you know that you are likely to be publishing amendments on a particular bill, go to LegHub and schedule an automatic update later that day.

  • see also [Commons and Lords] Republishing updated amendments

  • See also [Lords] Amendment Process - One-page summary