{ "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#", "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/openstates/main/json-schema/bill.json", "title": "Bill", "description": "A legislative bill tracked by the Open States API.", "type": "object", "required": ["id", "session", "jurisdiction", "from_organization", "identifier", "title", "created_at", "updated_at", "openstates_url"], "properties": { "id": { "type": "string", "description": "Open Civic Data bill identifier.", "example": "ocd-bill/f0049138-1ad8-4506-a2a4-f4dd1251bbba" }, "session": { "type": "string", "description": "Legislative session identifier.", "example": "2020" }, "jurisdiction": { "$ref": "#/definitions/CompactJurisdiction" }, "from_organization": { "$ref": "#/definitions/Organization" }, "identifier": { "type": "string", "description": "Bill identifier as assigned by the legislature.", "example": "SB 113" }, "title": { "type": "string", "description": "Official title of the bill.", "example": "Adopting a State Scorpion" }, "classification": { "type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}, "description": "Bill classification (e.g. bill, resolution).", "example": ["resolution"] }, "subject": { "type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}, "description": "Subject tags assigned to the bill.", "example": ["SCORPIONS", "SYMBOLS"] }, "extras": { "type": "object", "description": "Additional jurisdiction-specific data." }, "created_at": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "description": "Timestamp when the record was created." }, "updated_at": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "description": "Timestamp when the record was last updated." }, "openstates_url": { "type": "string", "description": "URL to the bill page on openstates.org.", "example": "https://openstates.org/nc/bills/2019/HB1105/" }, "first_action_date": { "type": "string", "description": "Date of the first recorded action.", "example": "2020-01-01" }, "latest_action_date": { "type": "string", "description": "Date of the most recent action.", "example": "2020-02-01" }, "latest_action_description": { "type": "string", "description": "Description of the most recent action.", "example": "Introduced in House" }, "latest_passage_date": { "type": "string", "description": "Date the bill most recently passed a chamber.", "example": "2020-03-01" }, "sponsorships": { "type": "array", "items": {"$ref": "#/definitions/BillSponsorship"} }, "actions": { "type": "array", "items": {"$ref": "#/definitions/BillAction"} }, "sources": { "type": "array", "items": {"$ref": "#/definitions/Link"} }, "versions": { "type": "array", "items": {"$ref": "#/definitions/BillDocumentOrVersion"} }, "documents": { "type": "array", "items": {"$ref": "#/definitions/BillDocumentOrVersion"} }, "votes": { "type": "array", "items": {"$ref": "#/definitions/VoteEvent"} } }, "definitions": { "CompactJurisdiction": { "type": "object", "required": ["id", "name", "classification"], "properties": { "id": {"type": "string", "example": "ocd-jurisdiction/country:us/state:nc/government"}, "name": {"type": "string", "example": "North Carolina"}, "classification": {"type": "string", "enum": ["state", "municipality", "country"]} } }, "Organization": { "type": "object", "required": ["id", "name", "classification"], "properties": { "id": {"type": "string"}, "name": {"type": "string"}, "classification": {"type": "string"} } }, "BillSponsorship": { "type": "object", "required": ["id", "name", "entity_type", "primary", "classification"], "properties": { "id": {"type": "string", "format": "uuid"}, "name": {"type": "string"}, "entity_type": {"type": "string"}, "primary": {"type": "boolean"}, "classification": {"type": "string"} } }, "BillAction": { "type": "object", "required": ["id", "organization", "description", "date", "classification", "order"], "properties": { "id": {"type": "string", "format": "uuid"}, "description": {"type": "string"}, "date": {"type": "string"}, "classification": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}}, "order": {"type": "integer"} } }, "Link": { "type": "object", "required": ["url"], "properties": { "url": {"type": "string"}, "note": {"type": "string"} } }, "BillDocumentOrVersion": { "type": "object", "required": ["id", "note", "date", "classification", "links"], "properties": { "id": {"type": "string", "format": "uuid"}, "note": {"type": "string"}, "date": {"type": "string"}, "classification": {"type": "string"}, "links": {"type": "array", "items": {"$ref": "#/definitions/Link"}} } }, "VoteEvent": { "type": "object", "required": ["id", "motion_text", "start_date", "result", "identifier", "extras", "organization", "votes", "counts", "sources"], "properties": { "id": {"type": "string"}, "motion_text": {"type": "string"}, "start_date": {"type": "string"}, "result": {"type": "string"}, "identifier": {"type": "string"} } } } }