Datasets:

pem207
/

maine-bills

license: mit
language:
  - en
tags:
  - legislation
  - maine
  - government
  - legal
  - nlp
task_categories:
  - text-classification
  - summarization
  - feature-extraction
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
pretty_name: Maine Legislative Bills
configs:
  - config_name: all
    default: true
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/**/*.parquet
  - config_name: '121'
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/121/*.parquet
  - config_name: '122'
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/122/*.parquet
  - config_name: '123'
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/123/*.parquet
  - config_name: '124'
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/124/*.parquet
  - config_name: '125'
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/125/*.parquet
  - config_name: '126'
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/126/*.parquet
  - config_name: '127'
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/127/*.parquet
  - config_name: '128'
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/128/*.parquet
  - config_name: '129'
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/129/*.parquet
  - config_name: '130'
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/130/*.parquet
  - config_name: '131'
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/131/*.parquet
  - config_name: '132'
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/132/*.parquet

Maine Legislative Bills

Full text of bills and amendments from the Maine State Legislature, extracted from PDFs published by the Law and Legislative Reference Library.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load all sessions (default)
ds = load_dataset("pem207/maine-bills")

# Load a specific legislative session
ds = load_dataset("pem207/maine-bills", "132")

# Stream without downloading
ds = load_dataset("pem207/maine-bills", streaming=True)

Source

PDFs are published by the Maine Law and Legislative Reference Library at https://lldc.mainelegislature.org/Open/LDs/. This dataset is neither endorsed by nor affiliated with the Maine State Legislature.

Schema

Column	Type	Description
`session`	int	Legislative session number
`ld_number`	string	Legislative Document number (zero-padded)
`document_type`	string	Currently always "bill"
`amendment_code`	string	Amendment identifier (e.g., CA_A_H0266) or null
`amendment_type`	string	Human-readable amendment type or null
`chamber`	string	House or Senate (derived from amendment) or null
`text`	string	Full extracted text of the document
`title`	string	Bill title extracted from content, or null
`sponsors`	list	Sponsor names extracted from content
`committee`	string	Referred committee, or null
`source_url`	string	Direct URL to the original PDF
`source_filename`	string	Original filename without extension
`scraped_at`	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of extraction

License

Bill text is extracted from public government documents. The extraction code is MIT-licensed.