Lawmaking & Legislative Voting
Bills, readings, amendments, votes, enactment
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drafting Bill texts and their evolution as documents
billText
authoritative versions of a bill
amendment
proposed changes and their disposition
deliberation Movement of a bill through formal stages
readingStage
plenary readings and outcomes
committeeScrutiny
referral, hearings, committee reports
voting Recorded decisions of members on questions put
rollCall
individual member positions
tally
aggregate counts, quorum and outcome
enactment The passage from passed bill to law in force
promulgation
signature and official publication
commencement
entry-into-force rules and dates
Note: Legacy card: layers named, findings and questions never written.
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- World Models
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- standalone-mm
- Navigation path
- NAV.SOC.POL.LEG
- Domain
- SOC.POL.LEG
- Industry
- Cross-industry
- Tags
- lawmakingprocesssoc.pol.leg
- Also called
- A10
What it is Derived, awaiting review
This meta-model describes how a polity turns proposals into binding law: bills and their evolving texts, the amendments moved against them, the readings and committee stages they pass through, the votes that members cast on questions put, and the final acts of promulgation and commencement.
Note: First sentence of the legacy card introduction.
Why it exists Filled
Bills, readings, amendments, votes, enactment
Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review
- It is its own model because the legislative record has a distinct document lifecycle and public-faith requirement, separate from the bodies that legislate (A11), the offices whose holders vote (A11), and the registers that later cite enacted law.
What robots and AI may and may not do Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Moral aspects Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Owners Filled
Steward
The legislature (a branch body of A2), acting through its clerk or secretariat as registrar, stewards this record.
Links to other meta-models Filled
references
- world.publicOffice - chambers and committees that hold readings are branch bodies governed there
- world.registryMandate - the legislative record is itself a mandated public register with a public-faith rule
composes
- world.auditTrail - tamper-evident, append-only history for every stage, amendment and recorded vote
imports
- akoma-ntoso - ALIGN: document structure for bill and act texts
- popolo - ALIGN: interchange vocabulary for vote events, memberships and motions
- eli - REFERENCE: durable identifier scheme for enacted legislation
requires
- vr.wm-org-009
- vr.wm-pol-013
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete
Identity and identifiers required Derived, awaiting review
- enactment: the act that makes a passed text law; key attributes: actIdentifier, signedByRef, promulgatedOn, commencementRule
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Capabilities and actions required Derived, awaiting review
- billIntroduced: a bill was formally introduced into a chamber
- readingHeld: a reading or committee stage took place and produced an outcome
- amendmentDisposed: an amendment was adopted, rejected or withdrawn
- voteRecorded: a vote event closed and its roll call and tally became final
- billPassed: a bill completed all required stages in the legislature
- billWithdrawn: a bill was withdrawn or lapsed before passage
- actPromulgated: a passed text was signed and officially published
- actCommenced: an enacted text entered into force
Legacy events listed as state transitions.
Hazards and failure modes optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Standards and interfaces required Derived, awaiting review
- openLegislativeRecord: public read access to bills, readings, roll calls and enacted texts
- bulkLegislativeExport: machine-readable bulk feed of the record for publishers and researchers
- preIntroductionDraftAccess: restricted access to drafts before formal introduction, granted case by case by the legislature
- statuteBook: enacted, in-force texts with their ELI identifiers; omits failed bills, drafts and vote detail
- memberVotingLedger: roll-call positions per member across vote events; omits bill text history
- billTracker: current stage and next step of every pending bill; omits full texts and individual votes
Context of use required Filled
- It is public by default under its A12 mandate; drafts and any embargoed layer are opened only by owner grant through the catalogue's S1 ownership and S2 access models.
Sources Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Open questions
- Superseded by a researched world model? Map this legacy card to its successor or retire it.
Machine files
Provenance
legacy MMAS card (world-models v0.2) · legacy
Built from: models/world-a10-lawmaking-and-legislative-voting/spec.yaml, models/docs/polity/A10-lawmaking-and-legislative-voting.md