[LINK] Fwd: [aliaACTive] Bills Home Pages on ParlInfo Search

[Antony Barry]

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> From: "Missingham, Roxanne (DPS)" <Roxanne.Missingham at aph.gov.au>
> Date: 16 October 2009 3:55:24 PM
> To: "aliaACTIVE_list" <aliaACTIVE at lists.alia.org.au>,  
> <aliaaglin at lists.alia.org.au>
> Subject: [aliaACTive] Bills Home Pages on ParlInfo Search
>
> Dear Colleagues
>
>
> I hope that you find the Bills home pages that were introduced with  
> the new ParlInfo Search useful. There have been some changes made  
> to improve these pages and I thought that you might find it useful  
> to have a copy of the description of components of the pages. The  
> wonderful Roy Jordan has prepared a very useful guide which will be  
> on the web site and is reproduced below.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Roxanne Missingham
>
> Parliamentary Librarian
>
>  Bill home page
> The Bills Homepage contains information about the progress of each  
> bill and links to the text of the Bill and related documents.
>
>
>
> Information which may appear on each homepage includes the following:
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>
>
> Information Explanation
> Name of Bill The current name of the Bill. Any previous names of  
> the bill will also be given
> Type Government or Private Bill
> Originating house The House in which the Bill was introduced i.e.  
> House of Representatives or Senate
> Status Whether before the House of Representatives or Senate,  
> passed both Houses and awaiting royal assent, or now an act
> Portfolio / Sponsor The portfolio name of the Government Department  
> responsible for the Bill, or the name of the sponsor of a non  
> Government Bill
> Summary A summary of the main purpose of the Bill
> Progress of bill Details of each stage of the Bill in the both  
> Houses, whether it has been referred to a Standing or Select  
> Committee, amendment details, date of royal assent and act number  
> and year.  Committee inquiry pages for a Bill may be found at  
> http://www.aph.gov.au/committee/index.htm
> Links Links to the text of the Bill (in WORD, PDF or HTML versions)  
> and related documents.
> Text of bill Versions which may appear include:  -the Bill as first  
> introduced (First reading); -the Bill as amended in the Second  
> Reading stage by the originating House (Third reading); -the Bill  
> presented to the Governor-General for royal assent (the Bill as  
> passed by Parliament)
> Explanatory memoranda A plain English guide to the contents of a  
> Bill. For Government bills, there may be a Supplementary EM  
> (containing details of amendments made in Parliament) and a Revised  
> EM (containing corrections). Not all Private Bills have an EM.
> Second reading speeches This is a link to the second reading  
> debates (in the Hansard subcollection). An additional link is given  
> to the Minister’s second reading speech (for Government Bills) and  
> to the introductory speech (for non Government Bills)
> Proposed amendments The text of proposed amendments
> Schedules of Amendments The text of amendments agreed to by the non- 
> originating House. .
> Bills Digest Analysis of the Bill prepared by the Parliamentary  
> Library. As Bills Digests are loaded later than other material on  
> the homepage, an error message may appear if a Digest has not yet  
> been published. Note that Digests are not prepared for every Bill.  
> Digests are also published on the Library website at http:// 
> www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/bd/index.htm
> Notes Any additional information
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