Data about the bills discussed within the city council as well as votings on bills (not to mix with passed law). Data on bills must be available for the current legislation period.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available in bulk | No | There is no API, so you don’t have access to the complete dataset. You have to build queries specifying the kind of legislation you are interested in. |
| In an open format | HTML | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | Rio de Janeiro City council is under recess in this month, so I can't check the update frequency during the current legislation period. Based on the last legislation period, the lastest bills proposed were published at the website in less than a week from the day of proposition. |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | Yes | There is no license declaration in the website. Regarding the definition of copyright content stated by the Law 9.610/1998 in Article 7, XIII, a dataset will be copyrightable only if its organization involves an intellectual creation. In this case, data is primary or factual, so we can assume that it is open or public. |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | You type "propostas lei municipais Rio de Janeiro" - portuguese for "municipal draft laws Rio de Janeiro" and the first option is the city council website. Once there you click in "Matérias Legislativas", portuguese for "Legislation Matter" in the homepage's menu. | |
| licence_url | https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L9610.htm | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | You can’t download data, so to get the information you need you have to look for it in the website. At the same time, there is a basic search mechanism where you can set some characteristics of the proposition you are lookinng for. |
| collector_name | Rio de Janeiro City council (Câmara dos Vereadores) | |
| characteristics | Content of bill, Author of bill, Votes on bill per member of the city council, Transcripts of debates on bill, Status of bill | The information about votes per member of parliament is at the transcripts of sessions. |
| location | https://www.camara.rj.gov.br/ - Rio de Janeiro City Council |
Reviewed. Everything ok.