Bills fields

Fields that are candidates for elimination are given in bold.

Fields on all documents

• _id: the bill ID in the format AKB00000001 where AK is the uppercase jurisdiction ID
• _all_ids: all IDs of merged documents plus this document's _id
• _type: always bill
• type: a list describing the type of document, e.g. appointment
• bill_id: an abbreviation
• documents
• sponsors
• versions
• Hierarchy
  • state: the jurisdiction ID, e.g. ak
  • chamber: lower or upper
  • _term: why the underscore?
  • session
• Title
  • title
  • alternate_titles (+extended_title, +official_title and +short_title also occur rarely)
• Actions
  • actions
  • action_dates
  • action_dates.first: the date on which the first action was taken
  • action_dates.last: the date on which an action was most recently taken
  • action_dates.passed_lower
  • action_dates.passed_upper
  • action_dates.signed
• Sources
  • sources
  • sources.url
• Metadata
  • created_at
  • updated_at

Fields on more than 97% of documents

• _current_term: true or false
• _current_session: true or false
• subjects (+subject also occurs rarely)
• Actions
  • actions.type: the types of action taken, e.g. bill:introduced
  • actions.date: the date on which the action was taken
  • actions.action: the description of the action
  • actions.actor: executive or other or begins with lower or upper
• Sponsors
  • sponsors.leg_id: the legislator ID
  • sponsors.type: primary or cosponsor
  • sponsors.name: the sponsor's name, often only the last name
• Versions
  • versions.doc_id: the document ID in the format AKD00000001 where AK is the uppercase jurisdiction ID, which refers to, e.g. http://static.openstates.org/documents/ak/AKD00000001
  • versions.url (+bill_url, versions.+pdf_url and versions.+source also occur rarely)
  • versions.mimetype: one of a list of MIME types (versions.+mimetype also occurs rarely)
  • versions.name

Fields on more than 3% of documents

• country: always us
• level: always state
• scraped_subjects
• summary
• Actions
  • actions.related_entities
  • actions.related_entities.type: committee or legislator
  • actions.related_entities.id: the committee or legislator ID
  • actions.related_entities.name: the committee or legislator name
  • actions.related_votes
  • actions.committee: the committee ID
  • actions._scraped_committee_name: the native committee name
  • actions.+action_number (actions.+action_num more rarely)
• Companions: Although most bills have at most one companion, in NY this is not the case
  • companions: a bill has up to three companion bills (+companion more rarely)
  • companions.chamber: always null, but lower, upper or null according to schema
  • companions.session
  • companions.bill_id: an abbreviation
  • companions.internal_id: a bill ID
• Documents
  • documents.doc_id: the document ID in the format AKD00000001 where AK is the uppercase jurisdiction ID, which refers to a private S3 URL
  • documents.url (documents.+source more rarely)
  • documents.name
• Sources
  • sources.retrieved
• Sponsors
  • sponsors.chamber: lower or upper
  • sponsors.official_type: the native type, e.g. P as opposed to primary
  • sponsors.+main_sponsor_url (sponsors.+sponsor_link more rarely)
• Versions
  • versions._oyster_id

Fields on less than 3% of documents

• _guid
• alternate_bill_ids (+alternate_bill_ids more rarely)
• +companion_bill_ids
• +referral
• +status
• +impact_clause
• +type_
• +final_disposition
• +bill_lr
• +description
• +requester
• +drafter
• +fiscal_notes
• +by_request_of
• +chapter and +volume_chapter
• Colon fields?
  • +bill_draft_number:
  • +category:
  • +fiscal_note_probable:
  • +preintroduction_required:
  • +transmittal_date:
• Actions
  • actions._vote_id
  • actions._code_id
  • actions._code
  • actions.+abbrv
  • actions.+absent_voters (actions.+absent more rarely)
  • actions.+actor_info
  • actions.+actor_info.details
  • actions.+actor_info.committee_code
  • actions.+amendment
  • actions.+assigned_ctty
  • actions.+bill_id
  • actions.+bills
  • actions.+brief_action_name
  • actions.+chapter
  • actions.+chaptered_version
  • actions.+comment
  • actions.+concur
  • actions.+day
  • actions.+effective_date
  • actions.+excused_voters (actions.+excused more rarely)
  • actions.+from_committee
  • actions.+no_votes
  • actions.+not_voting
  • actions.+pass_fail
  • actions.+session_laws
  • actions.+signed_chamber
  • actions.+vacant
  • actions.+version
  • actions.+veto_memo
  • actions.+vote_threshold
  • actions.+yes_votes
• Documents
  • documents.mimetype
  • documents.+date
  • documents.+type
• Sponsors
  • sponsors.committee_id: a sponsor may be a committee or a person
  • sponsors._code
  • sponsors.+leg_url
• Versions
  • versions._version_id
  • versions._internal_document_id
  • versions.+date
• +conference_committee (conference_committee more rarely)
  • +conference_committee. lower (conference_committee.lower more rarely)
  • +conference_committee. upper (conference_committee.upper more rarely)