Grant Vergottini of Xcential Group has posted The State of the Art in Legislative Editors and the DATA Act, at his Legix.info blog.
In this post, Mr. Vergottini comments on the new EC ISA report on current legislative editors, LEOS: Legislative Editing Open Software: Final Results (May, 2012).
Mr. Vergottini also comments on a pending piece of U.S. federal legislation, the DATA Act (H.R. 2146), about which he says:
Viewed as an opportunity, this act could ultimately drive better cooperation amongst the various state legislatures. This cooperation would improve innovation and progress in US legislative systems by focusing on common approaches and open standards. This less insular viewpoint would, as a result, improve efficiency and lower costs. Common standards allow common tools and common tools cost a lot less than full custom solutions. Check out the blog by Andrew Mandelbaum at NDI – http://www.demworks.org/blog/2012/04/how-xml-can-improve-transparency-and-workflows-legislatures.
For more information, please see the complete post.
Tags: Bill drafting software, DATA Act, Grant Vergottini, Legislative editors, Legislative information standards, Legislative XML, Legix.info blog
