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National Laws 65% open

United States

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Note: The methodology used in the Global Open Data Index has changed over time; significantly so between 2015 and 2016. For this reason, the results are not directly comparable over time.

What data is expected?

This data category requires all national laws and statutes to be available online, although it is not a requirement that information on legislative behaviour e.g. voting records is available.

Content of the law / status
Date of last amendment
Amendments to the law (if applicable)

How open is the data?

It's openly licenced
It's not in an open and machine-readable format
It's not downloadable at once
It's up-to-date
It's publicly available
It's available free of charge

Meta data

Data location	https://www.congress.gov/search?searchResultViewType=ex - Search of all the laws that hava passed
Data licence	https://www.congress.gov/legal/#copyright
Data format	HTML
Reviewer	Michael Beatty
Submitters	Oscar Montiel
Last modified	Fri Feb 03 2017 16:02:03 GMT+0000 (UTC)

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Reviewers

Michael Beatty

Submitters

Oscar Montiel

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