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 | Yes | There is an API available if you want to get all the dataset. |
| In an open format | HTML, JSON | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | Yes | I couldn’t find a specific license for the entire website, although there is an open data section where you can access the information available at the website. |
| findable | 4 | I consider it easy because a search in google returns the specific website where data is primarily. Also because the website is well organized, so it is easy to find the desired information on it. |
| findable_steps | You type "propostas lei municipais São Paulo" - portuguese for "municipal draft laws São Paulo" and the first option is the city council website. Once there you click in "Atividade Legislativa", portuguese for "Legislative Activity" in the homepage's menu. | |
| licence_url | https://www.camara.sp.gov.br/transparencia/dados-abertos | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | You do not get all this information consolidated in a dataset ready for analyse it. If you want to get this information about a bill, for example, you would first have to search for the bill (where you would get content, author, status and votes) and then looki for the transcripts of debates that occurred in the plenary session of the day when the bill was voted. You could use the API as well, but for that you would need some basic knowledge in programming to deal with it. |
| collector_name | São Paulo 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 | Once in the council website, you go in “Legislative Activity” where you can find all this information in different ways. In “sessão plenária”portuguese for plenary session, you can search for the proposed bills (content, author and status), votes (by day or by bill) and also transcripts of debates by day (not by bill). |
| location | https://www.camara.sp.gov.br/atividade-legislativa/spleg - São Paulo City Council |
The license for open data is pretty ok for this case. Everything else reviewed and it's ok.