There are a number of useful tools that librarians can use to
track changes to legislation.
Not exact matches
Paterson quickly signed five pieces of
legislation on his first day in office:
to add the New York State Department of Labor
to the New York City Transit
Track Safety Task Force;
to eliminate a law that discouraged employers from holding blood drives;
to change the way in which members are appointed
to a state health and research board;
to restore eligibility caps
to certain senior employment programs; and
to grant tax exemptions
to several local development corporations in New York State.
The analogy
to the climate
change legislation could be
to make a statutory commitment
to reduce child poverty (for example,
to reach by 2020 a level of child poverty at least 90 % below the 1999 when the commitment
to reduce and end child poverty was made) and then
to set up an equivalent group
to the Low Pay Commission or Monetary Policy Committee
to report before each pre-budget report and budget as
to progress towards this, and
to assess and advise on the range of policy options necessary
to get on
track.
In most cases, the discussion centers on using GitHub
to publish
legislation and
track legislative
changes.