This program finds each legislative bill number in the input text, then reads the TLO site to find and record the current status of that bill. Any pending hearings or changes in status are highlighted in the listing produced.
This program is freely available to everyone; use by one group does not interfere with use by others.
The input text to be searched for bill numbers can be typed in or copied from anywhere — spreadsheets, webpages, or documents. The program can even directly read an external web page as input if that URL is provided; when this is done, the program provides a link that can be copied as a bookmark to easily repeat updates based on that page.
Processing time is about a half-second for each access to the TLO site, so large sets of bills may take a few minutes to process. To speed this up, the previous status is used if a bill has been checked less than an hour earlier.
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