Toronto: Sort out distinction between motions and bill actions

[Patrick Connolly]

Not quite sure how to think about these yet, and whether our current bill scraper currently stands to be teased a part a bit. (?) Ideally, I'd like to get things into a format that Councilmatic worked really well, but I'm still investigating that.

Any feedback is appreciated on how the bill scraper might expect to evolve.

Reference: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/bylaws/law-home/about-bylaws-and-code.htm

[James McKinney]

What's a "bill action"?

[Patrick Connolly]

This is the "action" that I'm unsure how to differentiate from vote event motions:

https://opencivicdata.readthedocs.org/en/latest/data/bill.html#sponsors-and-actions

EDIT: As it stands, I'd just copy how NYC creates them -- a quick review makes me think there's some duplication between motions and actions.

It seems relevant as I'm interested in adapting councilmatic to Toronto, and they make heavy use of actions:

• https://github.com/opencivicdata/scrapers-us-municipal/blob/master/nyc/bills.py
• http://nyc.councilmatic.org/legislation/int-798-2015/

[James McKinney]

I had treated Toronto motion as equal to Pupa bill. If Toronto motion becomes Pupa action, then what is the Pupa bill?

[Patrick Connolly]

I'll read through their scraper and ask around before commenting further