Template:USBill/doc

Description

This links to a specific bill via Congress.gov.

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

This template links to external sites. External links should not normally be used in the body of an article; see Wikipedia:External links for discussion of acceptable and unacceptable uses.

Usage

Required: {{USBill | {{{1}}} | {{{2}}} | {{{3}}} }}

Optional: {{USBill | {{{1}}} | {{{2}}} | {{{3}}} | {{{which}}} | {{{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
93-115 (present)	Links to Congress.gov 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 res	House 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, scon	Senate Concurrent Resolution	S.Con.Res.
s.amdt., s.amdt, samt, sa, samdt	Senate Amendment	S.Amdt.

• {{{3}}}: Bill number (1-?)
• {{{which}}}: Optional field. If any data is here (i.e., non-blank), then adds "(Cong.)" to differentiate to the reader the Congress in which the bill was considered.
• {{{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 Congress.gov." "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

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

See also

• {{UK SI}}, an analogous template for "Statutory Instrument (UK)"
• s:Template:USBill — When changes are made, please change them at Wikisource, too.

External link

• Linking to Congress.gov

List of all United States legal citation templates

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 {{Scite}} or {{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				Public Law via GPO FDsys
{{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 THOMAS
{{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
	Parameter(s)