sunlightlabs/openstates — Issue #132: Nebraska does not distinguish between sessions/special sessions
Author: jamesturk
Created: 2012-01-05 22:22:44+00:00
State: open
Labels: priority.urgent, state.ne

currently NE's bill scraper hits http://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2011 which returns all bills introduced in that year, this has two major flaws

1) 2 sessions took place in 2011, 102 and 102S1, and so the second LB1 overwrites the first in our data
2) this will miss all bills introduced in the 2012 half of 102

an alternative approach is probably to use search by number on http://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/.. this will be slower, but no alternative currently seems to exist