Appendix 2: Bill IDs

At the time a bill is introduced it is assigned a unique bill-id. The bill-id is in two parts: the bill-type and the bill number.

The bill-type is one of the following codes.

	sb          Senate Bill
	sca         Senate Constitutional Amendment
	scr         Senate Concurrent Resolution
	sjr         Senate Joint Resolution
	sr          Senate Resolution

	ab          Assembly Bill
	aca         Assembly Constitutional Amendment
	acr         Assembly Concurrent Resolution
	ajr         Assembly Joint Resolution
	hr          Assembly House Resolution

If the bill is introduced in an extroardinary session, then the bill-type will have a suffix denoting which extraordinary session. Examples:

	sbx1        Senate Bill, First Extraordinary Session
	abx2        Assembly Bill, Second Extraordinary Session

The bill number is a one to four digit serial number starting from 1 for each bill type. Examples of complete bill-ids:

sb 1, ab 1004, sr 5, hr 8, scrx1 5

When referencing bill information by filename, the numeric portion is often expanded to 4-digits with leading zeros. Examples:

sb0001.TXT, ab1004.WRI, sr0005.TXT

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