Virginia Bill Error

[Katherine Hoffer]

We use the API for our website. A cross check with Virginia's Legislative Information System is suggesting that there is a bug in scraping from this site for the 2016 Session. For instance: The Open States API lists Virginia Senate Bill 165 as "Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995; additional requirements for certain agreements." However, the state's site lists this as "Open-end credit agreements; sellers of certain goods to extend credit." I have found this issue for several bills this session. Is there any way to fix this? Thank you.

[Andy Lo]

Hi Katherine,

I'm successfully getting the bill that Open States reflects on the website through the API.  The query that I'm using is:

http://openstates.org/api/v1/bills/?state=va&search_window=session&apikey=<api_key>

The bill detail from the bill ID provided seems to be correct as well:

http://openstates.org/api/v1/bills/VAB00021005/?apikey=<api_key>

Can you provide the query you're attempting to use?

[Katherine Hoffer]

Hi Andy,

I'm not sure if it is an error on our web developer's side, but I will reach out to them to make sure that they are using this query.

Thank you so much for the quick response!

-- Katherine