Data about the bills discussed within national parliament as well as votings on bills (not to mix with passed national law). Data on bills must be available for the current legislation period. Open data on the law-making process is crucial for parliamentary transparency: What does a bill text say and how does it change over time? Who introduces a bill? Who votes for and against it? Where is a bill discussed next, so the public can participate in debates? This data category draws on work by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the Declaration of Parliamentary Openness.
| Data location | https://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/RGES/ - Website of the Austrian Parliament https://www.data.gv.at/katalog/dataset/0d207682-c031-4c - Entry on the Austrian open government data portal, data.gv.at |
| Data licence | https://www.data.gv.at/katalog/dataset/0d207682-c031-4c |
| Data format | XML |
| Reviewer | Veronica Green |
| Submitters | Mathias Huter |
| Last modified | Wed Nov 30 2016 13:16:52 GMT+0000 (UTC) |
As per instructions, it makes sense not to be overly restrictive with draft legislation data and to accept submissions if they do not meet all our characteristics. This data set has 3 of the 5 criteria content, author and status. It is easy to find and readily available. To be specific - Authors are in almost all cases ministries. The site names the ministry that initiated the bill (not the civil servants who drafted it). Debates are only available when the bill is discussed in the plenary, not when earlier drafts are discussed in committee (most committees are non-public). Votes in committee and in plenary are released per party/fraction, not per member of parliament.