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metadata
dataset_info: null
configs:
  - config_name: all
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: us-laws.json
  - config_name: senate
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: congress_public_laws.json
  - config_name: house_of_reps
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: us_public_law_118_70.jsonl
  - config_name: executive_orders
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: exec_orders_hf.json
license: apache-2.0

US Federal Laws

This dataset consists of US Federal laws that are voted in by either Senate, the House of Representatives or Executive Order

Taxonomy

Senate

  • The senate split contains the laws voted from the 88th congress through the 118th Congress.

House of Representatives

  • The house_of_reps split contains all of the current versions of US Code as documented in Public Law 118-70
  • The date column will be the most recent amendment date if it was listed clearly, or it will be 7/12/2024 which is the date of which these revisions went into effect.

Executive Order

  • The executive_orders split contains all of the executive order documents starting in 2005 (Before 2005 the federal government does not have digital records of executive orders)

Sources

Loading Script 

import datasets

ds = datasets.load_dataset('macadeliccc/US-FederalLaws', 'all', split='train')
iter_ds = ds.to_iterable_dataset()

print(next(iter(iter_ds)))