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["Daniel Bennett" <daniel@citizencontact.com>]

Title: Untitled Document

Legislative Documents Technical Committee
of OASIS-OPEN/LegalXML

This survey is intended for the collection of data necessary to create a standard for metadata in legislative documents. The survey is broken into two parts: legislative terms and technological use. Please fill out both parts if possible or at least the one for which you are more comfortable answering. All of the information collected will be sorted and made public except for the email address. To better verify and clarify answers, we hope that you include your email address (we will not use the email addresses except for this purpose).

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PART I – ABOUT THE LEGISLATION

Your email address:

Your state or jurisdiction

LEGISLATIVE TERM

What is the length of a full legislative term? 6 months 1 Year 2 Years 3 years
Other

What do you call a legislative term?

If the term is divided, how many divisions do you have? 1 2 3 4 5
What do you call the divisions?

When do the divisions occur? Every 1 months 2 months 3 months 4 months 5 months 6 months 7 months 8 months 9 months 10 months 11 months 1 year 2 years 3 years 4 years 5 years months, beginning in January February March April May June July August September October November December
every calendar year

AN EXAMPLE OF LEGISLATION

Give examples of how you refer to or cite legislation (i.e. 108th H.R.57)

Briefly describe what the reference means

What dates would you associate with this document? What do they dates refer to?
Date 1. refers to
Date 2. refers to
Date 3. refers to

What is the title of the legislation?

Do you have a name for this kind of title?

If there is one, what is the alternative title of the legislation?

Do you have a name for this kind of alternative title?

LEGISLATIVE PUBLISHING, AUTHORSHIP AND SPONSORSHIP

Who or what is considered the official publisher of legislation (may be different than the producer)? .

Are any copyrights asserted? Yes No
If no, is there a statute that provides for the lack of copyright? Yes No
What statue?

Who and/or what are considered the authors of legislation? Select all that apply
Legislative Body Sponsor Co-sponsor Introducer
Committee Subcommittee Jurisdiction
OtherAuthor1:
OtherAuthor2:

Are the Author and the Introducer/Sponsor always the same? Yes No
If they can differ, explain how .

THE LEGISLATIVE BODIES

What is the jurisdiction of a house?
1. Itself YES NO
2. State YES NO
3. Other

Are there restrictions in either legislative body in originating legislation:
Include the name of the legislative body in the explanations.
1.
2.

How are the representatives in each body apportioned?
Legislative body Apportionment method (Choose all that apply for each house)

	Popular	Geographical	Multi-District	Appointed
1
2.

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