Template:USBill

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Contents 1 Description 2 Usage 3 Examples 4 Notes / Bugs 4.1 Periods 4.2 "Error" 5 United States legal citation templates 6 See also

[edit] Description

This links to a specific bill via THOMAS.

[edit] Usage

Use: {{USBill|{{{1}}}|{{{2}}}|{{{3}}}}}

• {{{1}}}: Congress number (93-109). (0-92 are not available)
• {{{2}}}: Bill type (S, SJ, HR, HJ):
  • HR: House Resolution
  • HJ: House Joint Resolution
  • S: Senate Resolution
  • SJ: Senate Joint Resolution
• {{{3}}}: Bill number (1-?)

[edit] Examples

The 52nd Senate Joint Resolution of the 93rd Congress:

{{USBill|93|SJ|52}} returns [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d093:SJ00052:

The 889th House Resolution of the 109th Congress:

{{USBill|109|HR|889}} returns [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR00889:

[edit] Notes / Bugs

[edit] Periods

We have not yet figured out how to handle periods. For example, you have to use "SJ" instead of "S.J.".

[edit] "Error"

To make this work when {{{1}}} is not a 3-digit number, or when {{{3}}} is not a 6-digit number, #if was used.

This, in turn, creates an error:

error: unrecognised punctuation character "{"

which only shows up here, but works fine otherwise.

Can someone fix this problem?

[edit] United States legal citation templates

Template	A.k.a.	Parameters				Description
		1	2	3	4
{{UnitedStatesCode}}	{{USC}}, {{usc}}	Title	Section			Link to the United States Code via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute
{{UnitedStatesCode2}}	{{USC2}}, {{usc2}}	Title	Section	Description		description of the section
{{UnitedStatesCode3}}	{{USC3}}, {{usc3}}	Title	Section-beginning	Section-end		allows a range of sections
{{UnitedStatesCodeSec}}	{{USCSec}}, {{USC4}}, {{usc4}}	Title	Section			when citing one of a series of sections of the United States Code, where it would be redundant to display the full citation for each section, this template can be used to display only the section number.
{{usc-clause}}		Title	Section	Clause		allows clauses
{{usc-title-chap}}		Title	Chapter			title/chapter links
{{usc-title-part-chap}}		Title	Part	Chapter		title/part/chapter links
{{USStat}}	{{usstat}}	Volume	Page			Links to a specific page of the United States Statutes at Large via the Library of Congress or the Government Printing Office
{{USPL}}	{{uspl}}	Congress	Ordinal law			Link to a Public Law via the United States Government Printing Office (http://www.gpo.gov)
{{USBill}}		Congress	Bill type (S, SJ, HR, HJ)	Bill number (1-?)		Link via THOMAS to Congressional bills - Not yet correctly implemented
{{CodeFedReg}}	{{CFR}}	Volume	Part	Section		Cites the Code of Federal Regulations through GPO Access
{{CfrClause}}					Clause
Template	A.k.a.	1	2	3	4	Description
		Parameters

[edit] See also

{{UK SI}}