Petition

Label Petition

Description

Petitions are requests, suggestions, criticism, or complaints SUBMITTED_TO to one of the Chambers of the Federal Assembly by an External Entity.

Attributes

• identifier bill_number: string

  The unique bill number for the petition.

• status: string

  Categorical: Resolved, Submitted, Assigned to the responsible committee, In the Council of States Committee, Deliberation in National Council’s Committee completed, In the National Council’s Committee

  Processing status of the petition.

• title_de: string

  Title of the petition in German.

• title_fr: string

  Title of the petition in French.

Connected relations

Outgoing

• ABOUT to Tag

• CONTAINS to Debate

• CONTAINS to URL

• SUBMITTED_TO to Chamber

Incoming

• SPONSORS from External Entity

Constraints

• A Bill must contain the attributes ‘title_de’, ‘title_fr’, ‘status’. The attribute ‘status’ is categorical must be one of: ‘Resolved’, ‘Preliminary examination’, ‘Written off’, ‘Discussed in both chambers’, ‘Accepted’, ‘Passed to second council’, ‘Approved’, ‘Preliminary examination in both chambers complete’, ‘Not yet discussed’, ‘Submitted’, ‘Refered to Committee’, ‘Discussed’, ‘Not yet discussed in committee’
• All debates for a bill must have the correct order_stamp, a matching uid and must be correctly connected by a NEXT relation. Further two consecutive debates must take place in different chambers/committees. If the order and the time missmatch, the node must be labeled as a “Inconsistent Timestamp”.
• A Petition must follow a defined structure:
  • It can not be connected to an Enactment Draft with a CONTAINS relation
  • It can not be connected to a Person with a SPONSORS relation, if multiple exist it must be transferred
  • It can not be connected to a Person with a COSPONSORS relation
  • It must be submitted to a chamber with a SUBMITTED_TO relation

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