Template:USBill
Description
[change source]This links to a specific bill via THOMAS.
Bills and Resolutions from the 6th Congress through the 42nd Congress are available separately through the Library of Congress.
- House bills, 6th through 42nd Congress
- Senate bills, 16th through 42nd Congress
- Senate Joint Resolutions, 18th through 42nd Congress
Usage
[change source]Required: {{USBill | {{{1}}} | {{{2}}} | {{{3}}} }}
Optional: {{USBill | {{{1}}} | {{{2}}} | {{{3}}} | {{{pipe}}} | {{{site}}} }}
- {{{1}}}: Congress number (93-present). (1-92 will provide the right output, but it won't be linked).
{{{1}}}
(Congress number)Result Link Format 93-112 (present) Links to THOMAS bill Formats properly 1-92 No link Formats properly
- {{{2}}}: Bill type:
{{{2}}}
(NOT case specific)
(Spaces are optional, but will be dropped in piped result)
(Periods are optional, but will be added in piped result)Bill type Piped result h, h., h.r., hr House Bill
Note: H.R. is a House Bill, not a House Resolution.H.R. h.res., h.res, hres House Resolution H.Res. h.j.res, h.jres, h.j.res, hjres., h.j.r., hjr, hj, hjres House Joint Resolution H.J.Res. h.con.res., h.con.res, h. con. res., h. con. res,
hconres., hconres, hcr, h c r, h con resHouse Concurrent Resolution H.Con.Res. h.amdt., h.amdt, ha, hamdt House Amendment H.Amdt. s., s Senate Bill S. s.res., s.res, sr, sres Senate Resolution S.Res. s.j., s.j, sj, sjr, sjres Senate Joint Resolution S.J.Res. s.con.res., s.con.res, s. con. res., s. con. res,
sconres., sconres, scr, s c r, s con res, sconSenate Concurrent Resolution S.Con.Res. s.amdt., s.amdt, samt, sa, samdt Senate Amendment S.Amdt.
- {{{3}}}: Bill number (1-?)
- {{{pipe}}}: Optional field if you'd rather use piped text
- {{{site}}}: Optional field. If any data is here (i.e., non-blank), it adds " at THOMAS." "Site" will not apply if there's no link, (i.e. {{{1}}}<93). "Site" is useful when including bills in lists, such as External links.
Examples
[change source]Senate Joint Resolution 52 of the 101st Congress:
- {{USBill|101|SJ|52}} returns S.J.Res. 52
House bill 889 of the 109th Congress:
- {{USBill|109|HR|889}} returns H.R. 889
House Resolution 4954 of the 109th Congress, known as the "SAFE Port Act":
- {{USBill|109|HR|4954|pipe=Text of the SAFE Port Act|site=yes}} returns Text of the SAFE Port Act at Congress.gov
Examples of Senate legislation from the Library of Congress:
- {{USBill|110|S|254}} returns S. 254
- {{USBill|110|SJ|10}} returns S.J.Res. 10
- {{USBill|110|SConRes|33}} returns S.Con.Res. 33
- {{USBill|110|SRes|69}} returns S.Res. 69
- {{USBill|110|SA|43}} returns S.Amdt. 43
Examples of House of Representatives legislation from the Library of Congress:
- {{USBill|110|HR|622}} returns H.R. 622
- {{USBill|110|HJ|65}} returns H.J.Res. 65
- {{USBill|110|HConRes|27}} returns H.Con.Res. 27
- {{USBill|110|HRes|655|site=yes}} returns H.Res. 655 at Congress.gov
- {{USBill|110|HA|234|site=yes}} returns H.Amdt. 234 at Congress.gov
Example of an unlinked bill:
- {{USBill|82|HRes|5678|site=yes}} returns H.Res. 5678
Related pages
[change source]- {{UK SI}}, an analogous template for "Statutory Instrument (UK)"
- s:Template:USBill — When changes are made, please change them at Wikisource, too.
Other websites
[change source]List of all United States legal citation templates
[change source]These templates are for citing U.S. codes and laws. To cite court cases, use {{Cite court}}, or, for the U.S. Supreme Court, use {{Ussc}}.
Parameters in (parentheses) are optional.
| Template(s) | Parameter(s) | Description | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | pipe | ||
| {{UnitedStatesCode}}, {{USC}} | Title | Section | (end of section range) | (pipe) | United States Code (USC) via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute | |
| {{UnitedStatesCode2}}, {{USC2}} | Title | Section | Description | USC via Cornell: description of the section | ||
| {{UnitedStatesCodeSec}}, {{USCSec}} | Title | Section | (pipe) | USC via Cornell: when citing one of a series of USC sections, where it would be redundant to display the full citation for each section, this template can be used to display only the section number. | ||
| {{UnitedStatesCodeSub}}, {{USCSub}} | Title | Section | Up to 6 levels of "sub" | Access to subsection/paragraph/subparagraph/clause/... to allow correct hyperlinking to the anchors embedded in the Cornell pages. | ||
| {{USCSub2}} | Title | Section | Up to 6 levels of "sub" | Combines {{USCSec}} and {{USCSub}}, eliminating redundancy when citing subsections / subparagraphs / &c. | ||
| {{UnitedStatesCodeClause}}, {{USCClause}} | Title | Section | Clause | USC via Cornell: allows clauses | ||
| {{Usc-title-chap}}, {{usctc}} | Title | Chapter | (Subchapter) | (pipe) | USC via Cornell: title/chapter links. | |
| {{USIRC}} | Section | Internal Revenue Code {{UnitedStatesCode}} | ||||
| {{USStat}} | Volume | Page | Statutes at Large via the Library of Congress, the Government Publishing Office, or Google Books | |||
| {{USPL}} | Congress | Ordinal law | (Description) | Public Law via GPO govinfo and https://uslaw.link/ | ||
| {{USStatute}} | Congress | Ordinal law | (Volume) | (Page) | Combines {{USPL}} and {{USStat}}, optional Year ({{{5}}}), Month ({{{6}}}), Day ({{{7}}}), optional {{USBill}}: (Bill type ({{{8}}}) and number ({{{9}}})) | |
| {{USBill}} | Congress | Bill type (S, SJ, HR, HJ) | Bill number (1-?) | (pipe) | Congressional bills via Congress.gov | |
| {{US House Vote}}, {{USHVote}} | Year | Vote | House roll-call vote via Clerk.House.gov | |||
| {{US Senate Vote}}, {{USSVote}} | Congress | Session | Vote | Senate roll-call vote via Senate.gov | ||
| {{USCongRec}} | Year | Page | (date) | Congressional Record via GPO FDsys | ||
| {{Federal Register}}, {{USFR}} | Volume | Page | Federal Register via GPO FDsys | |||
| {{CodeFedReg}}, {{USCFR}} | Volume | Part | Section | (Clause) | Code of Federal Regulations via GPO FDsys | |
| {{Executive Order}} | Number | Executive orders via Wikisource | ||||
| {{USTreaty}} | Congress | Treaty number | Treaties | |||
| {{UnitedStatesSentencingGuidelines}}, {{USSG}} | ChapterSection | Up to 7 levels of "sub" | (year) | Latest U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines (effective Nov. 1, 2012) via the U.S. Sentencing Commission website. Optional |year= references specific Guidelines applicable to a sentence imposed on or after Nov. 1st of that given year.
| ||
| {{frcrp}} | Chapter | Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (current) via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute | ||||
| {{frcp}} | Rule | Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (current) via federalrulesofcivilprocedure.org | ||||
| {{frbp}} | Rule | Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure (current) via federalrulesofbankruptcyprocedure.org | ||||
| {{frap}} | Chapter | Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (current) via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute | ||||
| {{fre}} | Rule | Federal Rules of Evidence (current) via rulesofevidence.org | ||||
| Template(s) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | pipe | Description |
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