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Recommended Bills
Richmond Sunlight figures out your interests as you look at bills on the site. View the bills recommended for you and find out what legislation you’re missing out on.
Legislators XML
Basic metadata about every legislator is available as XML. Simply replace the trailing
slash at the end of the legislator’s page on Richmond Sunlight with .xml.
For instance, Del. Tim Hugo’s XML feed is found at
http://www.richmondsunlight.com/legislator/tdhugo.xml.
At present, legislator XML provides the following, for which sample data for Del. Hugo is
included parenthetically:
- name (Hugo, Tim)
- Richmond Sunlight ID (tdhugo)
- district number (40)
- chamber (house)
- party (R)
- bill count (3)
- sex (male)
- cash on hand (17193)
- bill tags and counts (admission, 1; clifton, 1; college, 3; deer, 1; election law, 1; etc.)
- committee memberships and positions (Commerce and Labor, member, Finance, member, etc.)
Vote CSV
Each legislator’s voting record is available, by year, as a CSV file. (No XML yet.)
That’s found by appending votes/yyyy/csv/ to the legislator’s page
on Richmond Sunlight. For instance, Sen. Patsy Ticer’s
CSV voting data for 2008 is found at
http://www.richmondsunlight.com/legislator/psticer/votes/2008/csv/.
Legislator voting CSV data provides the following, for which sample data for Sen. Ticer is
included parenthetically:
- bill number (SB115)
- bill title (Traffic lights; creates Class 1 misdemeanor for running red light.)
- vote (Y)
- outcome (pass)
- committee (Transportation)
- date (2008-01-10)
This data is updated nightly, at 2:15am. The legislature, in turn, provides Richmond Sunlight with voting data at 2:00am each day; we’re not holding out on you.
