Here’s a list of pending legislation relevant to our report. (See our report links page for relevant legislation proposed in past congresses.)

This bill uses the language “searchable, sortable, and downloadable� for new legislative databses, which is right on. Sen. Salazar’s amendment to it would require committees to make video recordings, audio recordings, or transcripts of open meetings available to the public within 14 business days, although this was modified by the House to 21 days. See this OHP blog post.

This bill would require a list of earmarks in bills and amendments to “be made available on the Internet in a searchable format to the general public for at least 48 hours before consideration.� We encourage the bill to be amended to provide for the same information to be downloadable. A similar provision for the Senate is already included in S. 1, which is on track to becoming law.

This bill would require that bills, resolutions, amendments, and conference reports be made available on the Internet in some cases at least 48 hours before their consideration A similar provision for the Senate for conference reports only is already included in S. 1, which is on track to becoming law.

This bill would require committee votes to be published online within 48 hours. We recommend that the resolution go a step further and require the votes to be made available in a structured data format such as XML.

This is the latest 72 Hours bill, which would require that legislation and conference reports be available on the Internet for 72 hours before consideration by the House. A similar provision for the Senate for conference reports only is already included in S. 1, which is on track to becoming law.

This is a 10-day version of the 72 Hours bill above, with some interesting ethics wording.

This is the latest in a long line of bills Shays has introduced to make CRS reports directly available to the public. The bill would make available to the public a “centralized, searchable, electronic database� of certain CRS products. See this OHP blog post.)

This bill was pretty much incorporated into S. 1 when the House passed it (amended). See this OHP blog post.

This is a re-introduction of some of the CRS bills in previous years.