You can search for legislative actions that you or others in your office have entered and are tracking. A search lets you find a specific action or actions based on field information.
To find an existing Legislative Action or Actions:
Click the Legislative tab.
A listing of existing Legislative Actions appears based on your selection for the Default Dates and Default Congress in your user Preferences. Note that if you do not select default dates or congress, then IQ will display ALL existing Legislative Actions.
Select the New Search action.
Enter search criteria in fields on the Legislative Action Search page.
Click the Go button. All legislative actions that meet your criteria appear on the Search Results page.
Click an action name link to view all information for that legislative action or select the Modify Search link if you're not satisfied with the results of your search.
The Legislative Action Search page contains fields that let you enter criteria for finding legislative actions. IQ combines field information for a search, so that if you enter information in more than one field, you'll find actions that contain all the information you specified. The more information you enter on the Search page, the more specific your search will be.
Fields on the Legislative Action Search page let you search for legislative actions. You can search for an action based on who is responsible for the action, its issue code, type, name, description or notes information, when it was created or completed, and its success rating. An action must meet all criteria entered on this page in order for IQ to locate it with the search.
The following search fields are available: Action Name, Action Type, Member Role, Assigned To, Issues, Description, Action Notes, Success Rating, Creation Date, Completion Date, Congress, Bill Type, and Bill Number.
Type a word or words to find legislative actions whose Action Name field contains that word or words. You must include wildcards (* or %) before and after the string, for example, *health care* , because IQ does not add them. For example, a search for *health care* would find actions with Elderly Health Care, Health Care Reform or US Health Caretakers in the Action Name field. Use quotation marks to indicate an exact (case-sensitive) search. Use the connectors AND or OR between words to indicate a join search.
Select an action type to limit your search to actions of that type. Click the lookup icon to display and select from a list of action types.
Select a Member Role to limit your search to actions with that role. Click the lookup icon to display and select from a list of available Member Roles.
This field lets you search for legislative actions that are assigned to an individual user, to multiple users, or to any members of a group. Click in the first field to select Users or Groups, and then click the search icon next to the second field to select from a list of users or groups.
To limit your search to actions with a particular issue code, type a code in the Issues field or click the lookup icon to display and select from a list of available codes. You may enter or select more than one code to search on.
Type a word or words to find legislative actions whose Description field contains that word or words. You must include wildcards (* or %) before and after the string, for example, %supporting the goals%, because IQ does not add them. Use quotation marks to indicate an exact (case-sensitive) search. Use the connectors AND or OR between words to indicate a join search.
Type a word or words to find legislative actions whose Action Notes field contains that word or words. You must include wildcards (* or %) before and after the string, for example, %supporting the goals%, because IQ does not add them. Use quotation marks to indicate an exact (case-sensitive) search. Use the connectors AND or OR between words to indicate a join search.
Enter a success rating to limit your search to actions with that rating by typing it in the field or clicking the lookup icon to display and select from a list of available success ratings.
To find actions created within a date range, enter a beginning date in the From field and an ending date in the To field by typing a date in the field or by clicking the calendar icon and selecting a date from the calendar that appears. Leave both fields blank to include all actions in your search, regardless of when they were created. Enter a date in the From field only to find all actions with a creation date equal to or greater than that date. Enter a date in the To field only to find all actions with a creation date less than or equal to the one in the To field.
To find actions completed within a date range, enter a beginning date in the From field and an ending date in the To field by typing a date in the field or by clicking the calendar icon and selecting a date from the calendar that appears. Leave both fields blank to include all actions in your search, regardless of when they were completed. Enter a date in the From field only to find all actions with a completion date equal to or greater than that date. Enter a date in the To field only to find all actions with a completion date less than or equal to the one in the To field.
You can search for actions for one or more Congresses. To select multiple values, click the first value and then press and hold the Ctrl key and click the second value.
To find actions with a specific Bill Type, click in this field and select a legislative type. Legislation types include House Amendment, House Bill, House Concurrent Resolution, House Joint Resolution, House Resolution, Senate Amendment, Senate Bill, Senate Concurrent Resolution, Senate Joint Resolution, or Senate Resolution. Bill Types are code files and can be added, printed, and deleted.
If you know the bill (or amendment or resolution) number of the action you are searching for, you can use it to find the record by typing the number in this field. To find multiple actions, separate IDs with commas (762, 764) or search for a range by entering a hyphen between the IDs (762-766)