Introduction
Publishing a Bill on Lawmaker does several things:
It makes a copy of the Bill (XML and PDF) available via the API so that other systems, e.g. a Parliament’s website publishing system, can pick it up and use it.
It marks the particular version of the Bill as one that can be used in Lawmaker for an amending stage, i.e.
It creates a significant version of the Bill that is available on the Project Tab to users in all organisations
For the time being, the Scottish Parliament website will be continuing to publish PDF renditions of the bill. These will be supplied to the website through existing channels rather than a direct, electronic interface from Lawmaker. The same applies to UK bills, there is no direct link from publishing a bill in Lawmaker to publishing a bill on UK Parliament’s website. As such, ‘publishing’ in this context is merely marking the bill as having been published. You will need to have generated a PDF that you are happy with before you can mark the bill as having been publishedBefore a Bill can be published, you need to generate a PDF snapshot of the Bill - see Generating and viewing a PDF .
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There is currently no direct link from publishing a Bill in Lawmaker to publishing a Bill on the UK Parliament’s or Scottish Parliament’s website. See Publishing a Scottish Bill for more information on the current process. |
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See Publishing bills for more information on publishing a UK Bill. |
How to publish a Bill
If you haven’t already, generate a PDF of the Bill you want to publish.
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
Find the PDF snapshot that will be used for publishing and select Publish version from the drop-down menu
The system will present a warning message, making sure you have selected the right PDF to mark as having been published
Select Publish button to publish the chosen bill version associated to the PDF
The system will:
create a significant version
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with the label “Published”. The significant version will be visible to all users in the system
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and will contain both the PDF and XML version of the the bill
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create a snapshot version in the relevant working
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document’s version series.
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