Publishing UK amendment lists (incl. ping pong lists)
- Sarah Cogan (Unlicensed)
The amendment list should be published in Lawmaker in order for the website to display the amendments.
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When you have generated a PDF and it has been approved
Download the PDF
Rename it according to the approved naming convention: [Bill title] – Amdts – [List number] e.g. Energy Bill [HL] – Amdts – HL Bill 39(a)
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
From the 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
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
Locate your PDF snapshot version
Select Publish version from the Actions dropdown menu (you might have to scroll to find that option).
Click on Publish on the warning message
Once publishing has completed, a new grey published version will appear on the right-hand side of the screen
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 Republishing updated UK amendments