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January 09, 2007

New Legislative Watch blog launches

icon_watch.gifJason Pye and Chris Farris have launched a Georgia Legislative Watch blog at gabills.com.

This is no small task. Many of us have complained about the lack of a single source for tracking legislation throughout the session, but until now, no one has been willing to spend the time and energy to make this happen. Thanks to Jason and Chris for stepping up to take this on. It's a great service to the community.

Read the press release here.

Posted by Mel at January 9, 2007 09:46 AM

Comments

Without taking away from Jason and Chris, lawyer-types have had access to this on Westlaw for years:
"The GA-BILLS database is a multibase which combines GA-BILLTRK with GA-BILLTXT. GA-BILLS contains summary bill tracking materials (summary of bill and status information) for Georgia, as well as the full text of all available bills (introduced, amended and enacted versions) from Georgia. A document is a bill summary (tracking document) or full text bill."

Posted by: MEM [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 10, 2007 01:54 PM

Yes MEM, but now the rest of us can have access, free of charge.

Posted by: MelGX [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 10, 2007 02:22 PM

MEM 08 ... :-P

Posted by: Tim [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 11, 2007 06:41 PM

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