Publishing a Bill document version

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.

• It creates a significant version of the Bill that is available on the Project Tab to users in all organisations

Before a Bill can be published, you need to generate a PDF snapshot of the Bill - see Generating and viewing a PDF .

How to publish a Bill

1. If you haven’t already, generate a PDF of the Bill you want to publish.

2. 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

3. Find the PDF snapshot that will be used for publishing and select Publish version from the drop-down menu

4. The system will present a warning message, making sure you have selected the right PDF to mark as having been published

5. Select Publish button to publish the chosen bill version associated to the PDF

The system will:

• create a significant version with the label “Published”. The significant version will be visible to all users in the system and will contain both the PDF and XML version of the the bill.

• create a snapshot version in the relevant working document’s version series.