United States Congress
Data Dictionary of Legislative Documents

Return to Home Page

Element Name: rules–subparagraph
Description: Rules are hierarchically structured as clauses, paragraphs, subparagraphs, subdivisions, items,and subitems. The heirarchy follows this order.
Bills DTD Content Model: (enum, text, (rules–subdivision | continuation–text)*)
Attributes:
Name: changed
Description: Has this ENTIRE structural element (such as a Section (structure of legislation), Title (structure of legislation), etc.) been added or deleted?
Value(s): added, deleted, not-changed
Default Value: not-changed
Name: id
Description: Unique name for the element so that it can be referenced.
Value(s): ID
Default Value: #REQUIRED
Name: indent
Description: Mechanism permitting an override of the indentation typically used or a way to specify indentation level for a structure. The values are relative (up1 through up7 and down1 through down7) and absolute (the structure level can be specified such as subsection).
Value(s): left-margin, flush-left, rule, rules-clause, rules-paragraph, rules-subpargraph, rules-subdivision, rules-item, rules-subitem, up1, up2, up3, up4, up5, up6, down1, down2, down3, down4, down5, down6
Default Value: #IMPLIED
Name: reporting-committee
Description: For new or deleted textual material, this attribute provides a link to the name of the committee that made a particular insertion or deletion. The committee name is defined in the committee amendment line, which is part of one of the actions associated with the measure. This element links a specific change to that committee name.
Value(s): CDATA
Default Value: #IMPLIED
Parent Elements:
  • quoted-block
  • rules-paragraph