Specific help for drafting and managing UK Bills, amendments and amendment lists, e.g. how to publish Bills at each stage, producing amendments lists in the House of Commons and House of Lords, publishing lists, applying amendments to a Bill, Ping Pong, drafting Finance Bill Resolutions.
As well as the pages below, you may find general help in the following sections:
Drafting UK Bills
- Creating and drafting a UK Private Bill
- Marking 'money provisions'
- Inserting UK Bill and Act front and back covers
Finance Bills and Finance Bill resolutions
Managing and publishing Bills and Acts
- Preparing a bill for introduction
- Preparing the ‘as amended’ bill version
- Publishing bills
- Preparing a House Bill
- Applying FrameMaker amendments to a Lawmaker Bill
- Converting a UK Bill into an Act
- Submitting a UK Act to TNA
Managing Commons amendments and amendment papers
- Adding/removing 'Gov' from Commons amendments
- Inserting and deleting motions and resolutions
- Converting a resolution into an Order in a Commons Marshalled List
- Adding [R] to Members with Registered Interests
- House of Commons amendment list logic
Managing Lords amendments and amendment papers
- [Lords] Amendment Process - One-page summary
- [Lords] Copying amendments from LAS
- [Lords] Withdrawing amendments before debate
- [Lords] Recording outcomes (incl. republishing on the website)
- [Lords] Generating Official Lists
- [Lords] Updating an amendment so it appears on a subsequent Daily Sheet
Ping pong
- [Lords] Ping pong motion lists overview
- [Commons and Lords] Colouring a paperback for printing
- [Commons and Lords] preparing and publishing Consolidated Lists of Amendments
- Drafting ping pong motions (including reason motions)
- Managing Lords ping pong motions and preparing lists
- Managing Commons ping pong motions and preparing lists
- Add a heading to an amendment within a ping pong motion
- Consolidated List Overview