endomorphosis/ipfs_germany_laws

German Federal and State Law Corpus (Gesetze im Internet + Landesrecht portals)

Research snapshot of official legislation collected from Bundesministerium der Justiz / gesetze-im-internet.de (federal, jurisdiction=DE) and, appended, from the official Landesrecht portals of Brandenburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen and Sachsen (jurisdiction=DE-<Land>). Sachsen was densified on 2026-10-15 with Verwaltungsvorschriften and Bekanntmachungen (see the DE-SN densify section). Bremen (DE-HB) was collected but is held back pending a licence review (see below).

Not legal advice. Official gazettes / government portals prevail over this corpus.

Snapshot

Field	Value
Snapshot date	2026-09-05 (federal); Landesrecht 2026-10-02; DE-SN densify 2026-10-15; DE-SN heading/HTML fix 2026-10-15; contents/titles fix 2026-10-15; SN law-text line breaks 2026-10-15; DE-SN amending acts 2026-10-17
Coverage	full Bundesrecht via gesetze-im-internet.de TOC
Source	Bundesministerium der Justiz / gesetze-im-internet.de
Collector	scrapers/collect_gii.py
Laws / instruments	12329 (federal 6127 + Landesrecht 6202)
Articles	213111 (federal 129124 + Landesrecht 83987)
Language	de
Jurisdiction	Germany (DE federal; DE-<Land> Landesrecht)
License	urhg-5-amtliche-werke

Contents

• data/laws.parquet — one row per instrument (id, title, full text, ELI, dates, status, identifiers, article count, source URL).
• data/articles.parquet — one row per article/section (law_id, article number, title, text, source URL).
• scrapers/collect_gii.py — research collector used to build this snapshot.
• scrapers/common.py — shared collector helpers.
• scrapers/de_collect.py, de_build.py, de_finalize.py, de_checks.py, de_stage_and_check.py — Landesrecht collector, parser, dedupe, checks and append/never-thin staging.
• scrapers/collect_de_laender.py, de_lib.py, pack_de.py, finalize_gate.py, robots_guard.py (one-hop redirect rule), wrappers (run_de_short.sh, resume_loop_de.sh, de_waiter.sh, short_turn.sh, gate_profile.sh), requirements.txt (pinned), README.md (how to run) and tests/ — Landesrecht densify lane (2026-10-15).
• manifests/densify_sn_* — per-batch record of the DE-SN densify: build report, code record (sha256 per scraper file), card section, pack SHA256SUMS.
• manifests/fix_sn_headings_ids.jsonl — every DE-SN law/article id changed by the 2026-10-15 heading/HTML fix, with the action taken; manifests/fix_sn_headings_REPORT.json — invariants and gate results.
• manifests/fix_contents_titles_ids.jsonl — every article row dropped and every title restored by the 2026-10-15 contents/titles fix, plus each law whose article_count changed; manifests/fix_contents_titles_REPORT.json — invariants and gate results.
• manifests/fix_sn_lawtext_br_ids.jsonl — the DE-SN law texts whose line breaks were restored on 2026-10-15, with offsets and before/after snippets; manifests/fix_sn_lawtext_br_REPORT.json — invariants and gate results.
• manifests/densify_sn_amending_added_ids.jsonl — every law and article id added by the DE-SN amending-acts densify (2026-10-17); manifests/densify_sn_amending_known_gaps.jsonl — rows of those laws dropped by the clean-up (with reason) and the repeal placeholders kept; manifests/densify_sn_amending_not_added.jsonl — collected records not added (duplicates of live rows; pages with no norm text).
• MANIFEST.md, PACK_META.json — records of the 2026-10-02 Landesrecht append (not updated for later densify batches).

License / reuse

Official government / gazette texts; reuse per public-sector terms of the source portal. This packaging, metadata, and collector script are provided for research.

This dataset is not an official consolidation and is not legal advice. The official source prevails.

Notes

EXPAND above hub floor 6124/129926 (tip ab9708b5c7cc). Official GII/BMJ texts prevail; amtliche Werke. Not legal advice.

Landesrecht (state law) append — 2026-10-02 (DE-NW, DE-SN, DE-BB; DE-HB held)

Federal rows (jurisdiction='DE', gesetze-im-internet.de) are unchanged and come first; state-law rows are appended with jurisdiction='DE-<Land>', ids de-<land>-<portal id> (articles <law id>:§ N, :header, :gl:<Gliederung>, :Eingangsformel …), metadata_json.document_type = statute (Gesetz) or regulation (Verordnung). Only in-force consolidated Gesetze and Rechtsverordnungen from official Land portals; no third-party aggregators.

Land	jurisdiction	portal	laws	Gesetze	Verordnungen	articles	articles (Gesetze / VO)
Bund (federal, unchanged)	DE	https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de	6127	–	–	129983	–
Brandenburg	DE-BB	https://bravors.brandenburg.de	962	329	633	20311	9254 / 11057
Nordrhein-Westfalen	DE-NW	https://recht.nrw.de	1264	498	766	26603	15025 / 11578
Sachsen	DE-SN	https://www.revosax.sachsen.de	934	345	589	17237	8688 / 8549
Landesrecht total (published)			3160			64151

QA (staged rows): article_count = article rows for every law (0 mismatches, 0 orphans); 0 laws with zero articles; hand check 20/20 laws (5 per Land, incl. 5 held DE-HB laws) and random spot check 48/48 article rows (12 per Land) matched the cached source pages; 0 DE-HB rows in this release; never-thin: all 6,127 federal law rows and 129,983 federal article rows are byte-identical to hub tip 62477e216917 and come first.

Held, not in this release:

Land	jurisdiction	laws	articles	status
Bremen	DE-HB	1166	18581	HELD pending licence review: every document in the Transparenzportal Bremen Vorschriften database carries a "CC Namensnennung - Nicht-kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung" (CC BY-NC-ND) label, while the portal Nutzungsbedingungen allow use "für alle Zwecke" with attribution. Decision pending; rows are kept locally.

Not collected (see PACK_META.json and the gap list):

Land	status	reason / evidence
Baden-Württemberg (DE-BW)	BLOCKED	robots.txt forbids all paths for generic crawlers
Bayern (DE-BY)	BLOCKED_SOURCE	3 consecutive HTTP 503 (myracloud 'Security Check' JS challenge page) on robots.txt
Berlin (DE-BE)	BLOCKED_SOURCE	3 consecutive connection-level refusals on https://gesetze.berlin.de/robots.txt (TLS reset right after ClientHello; shared juris edge portal.edge.juris.de 195.74.94.206). Treated like 403/503 per order; not routed around.
Hamburg (DE-HH)	BLOCKED_SOURCE	3 consecutive connection-level refusals on https://www.landesrecht-hamburg.de/robots.txt (TLS reset right after ClientHello; shared juris edge portal.edge.juris.de 195.74.94.206). Treated like 403/503 per order; not routed around.
Hessen (DE-HE)	BLOCKED_SOURCE	3 consecutive connection-level refusals on https://www.rv.hessenrecht.hessen.de/robots.txt (TLS reset right after ClientHello; shared juris edge portal.edge.juris.de 195.74.94.206). Treated like 403/503 per order; not routed around.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (DE-MV)	BLOCKED_SOURCE	3 consecutive connection-level refusals on https://www.landesrecht-mv.de/robots.txt (TLS reset right after ClientHello; shared juris edge portal.edge.juris.de 195.74.94.206). Treated like 403/503 per order; not routed around.
Niedersachsen (DE-NI)	BLOCKED	portal Nutzungsvorbehalt declares a text-and-data-mining reservation under § 44b Abs. 3 UrhG for all accessible works incl. databases and forbids reproduction/extraction for commercial TDM; robots.txt also disallows /search/. Treated as a machine-readable-inte
Rheinland-Pfalz (DE-RP)	BLOCKED_SOURCE	3 consecutive connection-level refusals on https://www.landesrecht.rlp.de/robots.txt (TLS reset right after ClientHello; shared juris edge portal.edge.juris.de 195.74.94.206). Treated like 403/503 per order; not routed around.
Saarland (DE-SL)	BLOCKED_SOURCE	3 consecutive connection-level refusals on https://recht.saarland.de/robots.txt (TLS reset right after ClientHello; shared juris edge portal.edge.juris.de 195.74.94.206). Treated like 403/503 per order; not routed around.
Sachsen-Anhalt (DE-ST)	BLOCKED_SOURCE	3 consecutive connection-level refusals on https://www.landesrecht.sachsen-anhalt.de/robots.txt (TLS reset right after ClientHello; shared juris edge portal.edge.juris.de 195.74.94.206). Treated like 403/503 per order; not routed around.
Schleswig-Holstein (DE-SH)	BLOCKED_SOURCE	3 consecutive connection-level refusals on https://www.gesetze-rechtsprechung.sh.juris.de/robots.txt (TLS reset right after ClientHello; shared juris edge portal.edge.juris.de 195.74.94.206). Treated like 403/503 per order; not routed around.
Thüringen (DE-TH)	BLOCKED_SOURCE	3 consecutive connection-level refusals on https://landesrecht.thueringen.de/robots.txt (TLS reset right after ClientHello; shared juris edge portal.edge.juris.de 195.74.94.206). Treated like 403/503 per order; not routed around.

Known limitations

• Coverage is 3 of 16 Länder published (BB, NW, SN); HB collected but held pending licence review. BW: robots.txt disallows generic crawlers; BY: 503 bot-challenge; NI: § 44b(3) UrhG TDM reservation in the NI-VORIS terms; BE, HH, HE, MV, RP, SL, ST, SH, TH: juris-hosted portals refused TLS connections from the collector (BLOCKED_SOURCE).
• Portal texts are non-official consolidated reading versions (nichtamtliche Lesefassungen); only the promulgated gazette texts (GV. NRW., SächsGVBl., Brem.GBl., GVBl. Bbg) are authoritative.
• Scope: Gesetze + Rechtsverordnungen in force on the collection date. Verwaltungsvorschriften, Bekanntmachungen, Richtlinien, Staatsverträge (BB), Satzungen, and pure amending/repealing instruments are excluded. (Held DE-HB rows include Ortsgesetze of the Stadtgemeinde Bremen as filed by the portal.)
• Article rows follow the federal layout, incl. structural Gliederung rows (:gl:) with empty text; footnotes are dropped from article text. Sentence numbers (REVOSax superscripts) are removed. Duplicate norm labels within one law get #2, #3 suffixes.
• eli is null (as for federal rows); json_path points to the collector's raw HTML snapshot path; law_status='current' for all appended rows.
• Dates: date/date_issued = Ausfertigungsdatum where the portal shows it.
• NW: 14 in-force laws are missing because only a future Fassung (in force from 2027/2028, e.g. LBesG NRW, LBeamtVG NRW) or expired Fassungen were cached; the currently valid Fassung page was not fetched. NW sitemap entries without an in-force Fassung (1,837, repealed/expired) are excluded.
• Laws whose cached page had no norm text are not staged: NW 7, SN 15 (held HB: 1) (listed in the gap list). One SN page (Sächsische Corona-Schutz-Verordnung) failed with a redirect loop.
• SN: 103 cached REVOSax ids redirect to a newer vorschrift id; 99 exact duplicates of the canonical page were dropped and 4 rows re-keyed to the canonical id (de-sn-<final id>). BB: gesetze/mdf_2015 and verordnungen/mdf_2015 share a slug; the Verordnung is de-bb-vo-mdf-2015.
• HB (held) scope: university Prüfungs-/Studienordnungen (Dokumenttyp "ohne Qualifikation", 383), Gebührenordnungen (13), Anordnungen, Erlasse etc. are excluded.
• Overlap with federal rows: 0 id collisions, 0 identical law texts, so no state row was dropped as a federal duplicate. 7 state laws share a title with a GII row (GII also carries some GDR 1990 Naturpark/Biosphärenreservat regulations and Bremen-origin laws as continuing federal law); they are kept as Landesrecht.
• The federal articles table already contains 4,824 duplicate article ids (pre-existing, unchanged); the appended rows add none.
• Empty / short article rows (most empty rows are structural :gl: headings or repealed norms marked "(weggefallen)/(aufgehoben)"):

jurisdiction	articles	empty text (all)	empty, non-structural	text < 20 chars	laws with body < 200 chars
DE-NW	26603	7582 (28.5%)	855 (3.2%)	11 (0.0%)	1
DE-SN	17237	2218 (12.9%)	305 (1.8%)	10 (0.1%)	0
DE-BB	20311	2598 (12.8%)	302 (1.5%)	276 (1.4%)	0

Licence terms per Land

General: Gesetze and Verordnungen are amtliche Werke and public domain (gemeinfrei) under § 5 Abs. 1 UrhG. The portals' consolidated databases may still be protected as databases (§ 87a ff. UrhG, sui generis right: extraction/re-use of substantial parts), and portal terms of use may add conditions.

• Baden-Württemberg (DE-BW): NOT COLLECTED. landesrecht-bw.de (juris GmbH for the Land) robots.txt disallows all generic agents. Terms of use not retrieved; juris-hosted portals typically assert database rights (§ 87a ff. UrhG) over the consolidated database. Statute texts themselves are § 5 public domain.
• Bayern (DE-BY): NOT COLLECTED. gesetze-bayern.de returned HTTP 503 "Security Check" (myracloud) 3x; terms of use not retrieved. Statute texts § 5 public domain; database right of the operator possible.
• Berlin (DE-BE): NOT COLLECTED. juris-hosted Landesrecht portal unreachable from our egress (TLS reset, BLOCKED_SOURCE); terms of use could not be retrieved. juris-hosted portals typically assert database rights (§ 87a ff. UrhG) and restrict automated/systematic retrieval in their Nutzungsbedingungen (not verified here). Statute texts themselves are § 5 public domain.
• Brandenburg (DE-BB): Public domain under § 5 Abs. 1 UrhG. BRAVORS (Land Brandenburg) Nutzungshinweise describe content/search only; no licence or TDM reservation found. robots.txt (User-agent: *, Crawl-delay: 20) respected (one request per 20 s). Possible § 87a ff. database right of the Land in the database as a whole.
• Bremen (DE-HB) — HELD, not published in this release: Public domain under § 5 Abs. 1 UrhG for the statute texts. Transparenzportal Bremen Nutzungsbedingungen: data may be used "für alle Zwecke" if terms and law are respected, with attribution ", Freie Hansestadt Bremen"; BUT every document in the Vorschriften database is labelled "CC Namensnennung - Nicht-kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung" (CC BY-NC-ND) and the texts are juris-produced (juris-Abkürzung, juris doc numbers). The CC label cannot restrict § 5 texts themselves but may be asserted over the editorial/database layer (§ 87a ff.). robots.txt is empty (no restrictions). The CC BY-NC-ND label was found on all 1,611 cached HB documents. A legal decision is needed before publishing DE-HB; if published: attribute "Freie Hansestadt Bremen" and note the NC-ND label.
• Hamburg (DE-HH): NOT COLLECTED. juris-hosted Landesrecht portal unreachable from our egress (TLS reset, BLOCKED_SOURCE); terms of use could not be retrieved. juris-hosted portals typically assert database rights (§ 87a ff. UrhG) and restrict automated/systematic retrieval in their Nutzungsbedingungen (not verified here). Statute texts themselves are § 5 public domain.
• Hessen (DE-HE): NOT COLLECTED. juris-hosted Landesrecht portal unreachable from our egress (TLS reset, BLOCKED_SOURCE); terms of use could not be retrieved. juris-hosted portals typically assert database rights (§ 87a ff. UrhG) and restrict automated/systematic retrieval in their Nutzungsbedingungen (not verified here). Statute texts themselves are § 5 public domain.
• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (DE-MV): NOT COLLECTED. juris-hosted Landesrecht portal unreachable from our egress (TLS reset, BLOCKED_SOURCE); terms of use could not be retrieved. juris-hosted portals typically assert database rights (§ 87a ff. UrhG) and restrict automated/systematic retrieval in their Nutzungsbedingungen (not verified here). Statute texts themselves are § 5 public domain.
• Niedersachsen (DE-NI): NOT COLLECTED. NI-VORIS (hosted by Wolters Kluwer Deutschland GmbH) Nutzungsvorbehalt: reservation of text-and-data-mining rights under § 44b Abs. 3 UrhG for all works incl. databases; reproduction/extraction for commercial TDM not permitted. § 5 UrhG covers the statute texts, but the TDM reservation and database right (§ 87a ff.) of the host block automated collection without permission.
• Nordrhein-Westfalen (DE-NW): Gesetze/Verordnungen are amtliche Werke, public domain under § 5 Abs. 1 UrhG. recht.nrw.de (Ministerium des Innern NRW) publishes non-official consolidated reading versions ("nichtamtliche bereinigte Fassungen"); Impressum contains only liability disclaimers, no reuse licence, no TDM reservation found, robots.txt "Allow: /". A database right of the Land (§ 87a ff. UrhG) in the portal database as a whole cannot be excluded.
• Rheinland-Pfalz (DE-RP): NOT COLLECTED. juris-hosted Landesrecht portal unreachable from our egress (TLS reset, BLOCKED_SOURCE); terms of use could not be retrieved. juris-hosted portals typically assert database rights (§ 87a ff. UrhG) and restrict automated/systematic retrieval in their Nutzungsbedingungen (not verified here). Statute texts themselves are § 5 public domain.
• Saarland (DE-SL): NOT COLLECTED. juris-hosted Landesrecht portal unreachable from our egress (TLS reset, BLOCKED_SOURCE); terms of use could not be retrieved. juris-hosted portals typically assert database rights (§ 87a ff. UrhG) and restrict automated/systematic retrieval in their Nutzungsbedingungen (not verified here). Statute texts themselves are § 5 public domain.
• Sachsen (DE-SN): Public domain under § 5 Abs. 1 UrhG. REVOSax (Sächsische Staatskanzlei, built with SV SAXONIA Verlag GmbH); Impressum = liability disclaimer only; no reuse licence or TDM reservation found; robots.txt has no rule for generic agents. Possible § 87a ff. database right of the operator in the database as a whole.
• Sachsen-Anhalt (DE-ST): NOT COLLECTED. juris-hosted Landesrecht portal unreachable from our egress (TLS reset, BLOCKED_SOURCE); terms of use could not be retrieved. juris-hosted portals typically assert database rights (§ 87a ff. UrhG) and restrict automated/systematic retrieval in their Nutzungsbedingungen (not verified here). Statute texts themselves are § 5 public domain.
• Schleswig-Holstein (DE-SH): NOT COLLECTED. juris-hosted Landesrecht portal unreachable from our egress (TLS reset, BLOCKED_SOURCE); terms of use could not be retrieved. juris-hosted portals typically assert database rights (§ 87a ff. UrhG) and restrict automated/systematic retrieval in their Nutzungsbedingungen (not verified here). Statute texts themselves are § 5 public domain.
• Thüringen (DE-TH): NOT COLLECTED. juris-hosted Landesrecht portal unreachable from our egress (TLS reset, BLOCKED_SOURCE); terms of use could not be retrieved. juris-hosted portals typically assert database rights (§ 87a ff. UrhG) and restrict automated/systematic retrieval in their Nutzungsbedingungen (not verified here). Statute texts themselves are § 5 public domain.

DE-SN densify — 2026-10-15: (1666 laws / 17853 articles, append-only at 4911b83b)

• Source: www.revosax.sachsen.de (revosax); licence: Public domain (gemeinfrei): amtliche Werke i.S.d. § 5 Abs. 1 UrhG; Sächsische Staatskanzlei / revosax.sachsen.de (REVOSax)
• Kinds: {"bek": 78, "law": 1105, "vwv": 483}
• Clean-up (pipeline, added rows only): 9 contents-list rows dropped; revosax footnote HTML converted to plain-text 'Fußnoten:' blocks in 279 article rows and 60 law texts; 113 heading-only rows folded into the next article, 48 trailing ones dropped; 10 titles cleaned

source_terms_note

User decision relayed by Chief of Staff on 2026-10-13: 'I want the entire law, the government laws are not copyrighted' (official statute text, § 5 UrhG). Applies to DE-SN (incl. amending acts, VwV), DE-BB VwV, the DE-NW change set, DE-NI (NI-VORIS) and DE-HB (transparenz.bremen.de). Collected robots fail-closed, no WAF/challenge bypass, polite throttling.

Every added row also carries source_terms_note inside metadata_json.metadata.

DE-SN totals after this batch: 2,600 laws (934 + 1,666) / 35,090 articles (17,237 + 17,853). QA (CoS, independent): all 9,287 existing law rows and 194,134 existing article rows are byte-identical to tip 4911b83b and come first; new law and article ids unique and disjoint from the tip; article_count = article rows for every law (0 mismatches); 0 contents-list rows; 0 raw HTML tags; 0 DE-NI / DE-HB rows; 2 source pages spot-checked against revosax.sachsen.de (64/64 long text lines found). Scope differs from the 2026-10-02 append for these rows: Verwaltungsvorschriften (vwv) and Bekanntmachungen (bek) are included (metadata_json.metadata.kind); footnotes are kept as [n] markers plus a plain-text Fußnoten: block. Known: 23 added instruments (mostly short Berichtigungen) have their full text in the law row and 0 article rows; ~560 added article rows are structural headings (e.g. Teil 1 / Gemeinsamer Studiengang) with no body text of their own.

DE-SN heading / HTML fix — 2026-10-15 (in place, DE-SN rows only, parent e5474984)

Only jurisdiction=DE-SN rows changed; every other law and article row is byte-identical and keeps its position.

• Heading-only article rows (title equals text after collapsing whitespace, e.g. Teil 1 / Teil 1\nAllgemeines vs Teil 1 Allgemeines): 1,511 folded into the next article of the same law (their heading is prepended to its text), 25 trailing ones (no following article) dropped.
• Contents-list rows (Inhaltsübersicht) dropped: 3 (rows from the 2026-10-02 append; 4,138 chars of § headings, duplicated by the laws' own article rows).
• Text check (CoS): per law, the concatenated DE-SN article text is unchanged (whitespace-insensitive) for 2,559 of 2,577 laws; the other 18 differ only by the 25 dropped trailing heading stubs (809 chars, e.g. Anlage 4). 17 of the folded rows are (weggefallen) placeholders, now prefixed to the next section's text.
• Raw HTML tags left in DE-SN rows from the 2026-10-02 append removed: 50 article titles and 36 law texts (<br>, <b>/</b> only; the remaining text is unchanged, whitespace aside).
• article_count recomputed for 372 laws; no other law field changed except text of the 36 HTML-cleaned laws (no law titles changed).
• Article ids are not renumbered; removed ids and their fold targets are listed in manifests/fix_sn_headings_ids.jsonl.
• This supersedes the densify note above about ~560 structural-heading rows: no DE-SN article row is heading-only any more.

DE-SN totals after the heading fix: 2,600 laws / 33,551 articles.

Contents rows and DE-SN titles fix — 2026-10-15 (in place, parent f9384361)

• Contents-list article rows (Inhaltsübersicht / Inhaltsverzeichnis) dropped: 859 federal (DE), 98 DE-BB, 10 DE-NW. The federal rows repeat the law's own section list; the DE-BB rows are section lists or empty, the DE-NW rows were empty. laws.text is unchanged and still holds the full instrument.
• 23 federal contents rows are kept unchanged on purpose: they list the articles or embedded laws of omnibus (mantle) acts, or give an outline, form list or signal list that is not repeated as article rows (sozhieinog, sgb9ua_ndg, fgg-rg, arbzrg, afrg, beschneurg, hzvng, asrg_1995, standog, bthg, zustlg, kohleausg, agb_ddr, vreformg, grg, pflfassaprv, _kodesigng, kjhg, pflfassg, trzollg, eso_1959, patg, rdfunkng).
• DE-SN article titles: 33 titles in which a line break (<br>) had been removed without a space (e.g. elektronischenInformations-) get the space back; the position was taken from the raw title before the 2026-10-15 headings fix.
• article_count recomputed for 967 laws (no other law field changed). No heading-only rows were folded in this fix; ids are not renumbered. Every dropped and retitled id is listed in manifests/fix_contents_titles_ids.jsonl.

Totals after the contents/titles fix: 10,953 laws / 209,481 articles.

DE-SN law-text line breaks — 2026-10-15 (in place, laws.text of DE-SN rows only)

• In 24 DE-SN law texts the 2026-10-15 heading/HTML fix had removed 34 line breaks (<br>) that sat directly between two words, joining them (e.g. elektronischenInformations-). Each is a line break again, at the exact position taken from the raw text before that fix; offsets and before/after snippets are in manifests/fix_sn_lawtext_br_ids.jsonl.
• No other field or row changed; law and article counts are unchanged.
• Note: the bundled scrapers/de_lib.py still has default HUB_TIP f9384361 (an earlier tip). Set DE_HUB_TIP to the current tip before building a new pack, as the scrapers README says.

DE-SN amending acts densify — 2026-10-17 (1,376 laws / 3,630 articles, append-only at 92488791)

• Source: www.revosax.sachsen.de (revosax); licence: Public domain (gemeinfrei): amtliche Werke i.S.d. § 5 Abs. 1 UrhG; Sächsische Staatskanzlei / revosax.sachsen.de (REVOSax)
• Kinds: {"amending": 1376} — Änderungs-/Aufhebungsgesetze and -verordnungen (metadata_json.metadata.kind = amending), which the 2026-10-02 append and the 2026-10-15 densify excluded.
• Every live row is byte-identical and comes first; only rows are appended (no live row changed or removed). New law and article ids are unique and disjoint from the tip; article_count = article rows for every added law.
• Not added: 2,041 collected records are duplicates of live rows (1,666 id_on_tip, 375 same_title_same_land_on_tip); listed in manifests/densify_sn_amending_not_added.jsonl. (Earlier build logs called these 'dropped'; they are not bounds rejections.)
• Not added: 2,003 REVOSax pages carry no norm text of their own (text under 80 characters; stub pages that only point to a parent act, e.g. Gesetz zum Zehnten Rundfunkänderungsstaatsvertrag); listed in the same manifest.
• Clean-up (pipeline, added rows only): revosax footnotes are [n] markers plus a plain-text Fußnoten: block (16 article rows, 0 law texts converted at pack time); 18 structural heading rows (Teil/Abschnitt/Zustimmungsgesetz, or an Artikel N heading over the § rows of the act it contains) folded into the next row; 0 titles cleaned; 0 metadata fields cleaned of HTML. An empty Artikel N heading is never merged into Artikel N+1: each Artikel keeps its own text.
• Repeal placeholders kept: 5 rows such as Artikel 7 (außer Kraft) / (aufgehoben) stay as rows, with stray footnote digits removed and metadata_json.body_status = repealed_placeholder (no new column; the dataset schema is unchanged): de-sn-19408:Artikel#2, de-sn-5041:Artikel#7, de-sn-5041:Artikel#8, de-sn-5041:Artikel#9, de-sn-5041:Artikel#10.
• Personal data: only personal data of private individuals is redacted ([REDACTED-<kind>]); official accounts (Bundesbank / public cash offices), functional and authority mailboxes (e.g. @sachsen.de) and table numbers stay verbatim. Redaction markers in the added rows: 0.
• Pages re-fetched for this rebuild (robots-checked, gated, polite delay) and cached so later parser fixes re-parse offline: 50.

Known gaps (DE-SN amending acts)

Rows of the added laws that are not in the data (every id with its reason is in manifests/densify_sn_amending_known_gaps.jsonl):

• 26 empty Artikel headings with no body on the REVOSax page (mostly an Artikel that enacts a separate act, whose text REVOSax keeps under that act's own page): de-sn-11376:Artikel, de-sn-11615:Artikel, de-sn-11615:Artikel#2, de-sn-11696:Artikel#2, de-sn-12339:Artikel#13, de-sn-12800:Artikel, de-sn-12867:Artikel, de-sn-1540:Artikel, de-sn-18048:Artikel, de-sn-18270:Artikel#3, de-sn-18816:Artikel, de-sn-1915:Artikel, de-sn-19985:Artikel, de-sn-20002:Artikel, de-sn-20785:Artikel#2, de-sn-20785:Artikel#3, de-sn-20980:Artikel, de-sn-21005:Artikel, de-sn-21009:Artikel, de-sn-21195:Artikel, de-sn-21417:Artikel, de-sn-21520:Artikel, de-sn-3982:Artikel, de-sn-4371:Artikel, de-sn-4371:Artikel#2, de-sn-5119:Artikel#2.
• 2 heading rows with only a footnote number: de-sn-16702:Artikel#2, de-sn-17593:Artikel#2.
• 2 attachment stubs (the map / Anhang itself is not on the page): de-sn-21304:Anlagen, de-sn-4976:Anlagen.
• 37 trailing heading-only rows (Anlage, Anhang, Übersichtskarte … with no content after them): listed in the manifest.

source_terms_note

User decision relayed by Chief of Staff on 2026-10-13: 'I want the entire law, the government laws are not copyrighted' (official statute text, § 5 UrhG). Applies to DE-SN (incl. amending acts, VwV), DE-BB VwV, the DE-NW change set, DE-NI (NI-VORIS) and DE-HB (transparenz.bremen.de). Collected robots fail-closed, no WAF/challenge bypass, polite throttling.

Every added row also carries source_terms_note inside metadata_json.metadata.

DE-SN totals after this batch: 3,976 laws (2,600 + 1,376) / 37,181 articles (33,551 + 3,630). Dataset totals: 12,329 laws / 213,111 articles.

• The bundled scrapers/de_lib.py has default HUB_TIP 92488791 (the parent of this batch); set DE_HUB_TIP to the current tip before building a new pack.