---
task_categories:
- text-generation
- text-classification
language:
- en
tags:
- legal
- bills
pretty_name: bill_committees_us
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
---

# Dataset Card for "bill_committees_us"

## Table of Contents
- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** [BillML](https://github.com/dreamproit/BillML)
- **Repository:** [BillML](https://github.com/dreamproit/BillML)
- **Paper:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Leaderboard:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Point of Contact:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Dataset Summary

Dataset for US Congressional bills with committees information (bill_committees_us). Contains data for bills from the 108th to the 118th Congress, approximately 132,000 documents.


### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Languages

English

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

#### default

### Data Fields

- id: id of the bill in format(congress number + bill type + bill number + bill version).
- congress: number of the congress.
- bill_type: type of the bill.
- bill_number: number of the bill.
- bill_version: version of the bill.
- title: official title of the bill.
- sections: list of bill sections with section_id, text and header.
- sections_length: number with lenght of the sections list.
- text: bill text.
- text_length: number of characters in the text.
- committees: list of the committees that bill relates to.

### Data Splits

train

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

Bills (proposed laws) are specialized, structured documents with great public significance.
Often, the language of a bill may not directly explain the potential impact of the legislation.
This dataset collects the text of bills and metadata that can identify and categorize bills.
As a result, this dataset collects bill text; it also provides text as a list of sections with the text and header.
The *committees* are categories assigned to each bill by specialist researchers at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. With these labels, it should be possible to train models to autoclassify bills.

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Source Data

[govinfo.gov](https://www.govinfo.gov/)

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

The data consists of the US congressional bills that were collected from the [govinfo.gov](https://www.govinfo.gov/) service provided by the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) under CC0-1.0 license.

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)


### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the annotators?

The *policy area*, *legislative subjects* and other annotations were produced by analysts at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed]

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

These are legislative proposals in the US Congress.

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed]

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[dreamproit.com](https://dreamproit.com/)

### Licensing Information

Bill and metadata information are public and are unlicensed, as it is data produced by government entities. The collection and enhancement work that we provide for this dataset, to the degree it may be covered by copyright, is released under [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).

### Citation Information

[More Information Needed]

### Contributions

Thanks to [@aih](https://github.com/aih) [@BorodaUA](https://github.com/BorodaUA), [@alexbojko](https://github.com/alexbojko) for adding this dataset.