Template:USBill/doc

Description

This links to a specific bill via Congress.gov.

Bills and Resolutions from the 6th Congress through the 42nd Congress are available separately through the Library of Congress.

• House bills, 6th through 42nd Congress
• Senate bills, 16th through 42nd Congress
• Senate Joint Resolutions, 18th through 42nd Congress

This template links to external sites. External links should not normally be used in the body of an article; see Wikipedia:External links for discussion of acceptable and unacceptable uses.

Parameters

|1=

Congress (93-present). (1-92 will provide the right output, but it won't be linked).

|1=congress number	Result
	Link	Format
93-Template:USCongressOrd (present)	Links to Congress.gov bill	Formats properly
1-92	No link	Formats properly

|2=bill type

Spaces and periods are optional, but in the piped result, spaces will be dropped and periods will be added	Type	Piped result
h, hr	House Bill Note: H.R. is a House Bill, not a House Resolution.	H.R.
hres	House Resolution	H.Res.
hj, hjr, hjres	House Joint Resolution	H.J.Res.
hconres, hcr	House Concurrent Resolution	H.Con.Res.
ha, hamdt	House Amendment	H.Amdt.
hrept	House Report	H.Rept.
s	Senate Bill	S.
sr, sres	Senate Resolution	S.Res.
sj, sjr, sjres	Senate Joint Resolution	S.J.Res.
sconres, scr, scon	Senate Concurrent Resolution	S.Con.Res.
samt, sa, samdt	Senate Amendment	S.Amdt.
srept	Senate Report	S.Rept.

• |3=: Bill number (1-?)
• |which=: Optional field. If any data is here (i.e., non-blank), then adds "(Cong.)" to differentiate to the reader the Congress in which the bill was considered.
• |pipe=: Optional field if you'd rather use piped text
• |site=: Optional field. If any data is here (i.e., non-blank), it adds " at Congress.gov." "Site" will not apply if there's no link, (i.e. |1=<93). "Site" is useful when including bills in lists, such as External links.

Examples

Senate Joint Resolution 52 of the 101st Congress:

{{USBill|101|SJ|52}} returns -congress/SJ/Template:Replace SJ Template:Replace

House bill 889 of the 109th Congress:

{{USBill|109|HR|889}} returns -congress/HR/Template:Replace HR Template:Replace

{{USBill|109|HR|889|which=109}} returns -congress/HR/Template:Replace HR Template:Replace ( Cong.)

House Resolution 4954 of the 109th Congress, known as the "SAFE Port Act":

{{USBill|109|HR|4954|pipe=Text of the SAFE Port Act|site=yes}} returns -congress/HR/Template:Replace Text of the SAFE Port Act at Congress.gov

Examples of Senate legislation from the Library of Congress:

{{USBill|110|S|254}} returns -congress/S/Template:Replace S Template:Replace

{{USBill|110|SJ|10}} returns -congress/SJ/Template:Replace SJ Template:Replace

{{USBill|110|SConRes|33}} returns -congress/SConRes/Template:Replace SConRes Template:Replace

{{USBill|110|SRes|69}} returns -congress/SRes/Template:Replace SRes Template:Replace

{{USBill|110|SA|43}} returns -congress/SA/Template:Replace SA Template:Replace

Examples of House of Representatives legislation from the Library of Congress:

{{USBill|110|HR|622}} returns -congress/HR/Template:Replace HR Template:Replace

{{USBill|110|HJ|65}} returns -congress/HJ/Template:Replace HJ Template:Replace

{{USBill|110|HConRes|27}} returns -congress/HConRes/Template:Replace HConRes Template:Replace

{{USBill|110|HRes|655|site=yes}} returns -congress/HRes/Template:Replace HRes Template:Replace at Congress.gov

{{USBill|110|HA|234|site=yes}} returns -congress/HA/Template:Replace HA Template:Replace at Congress.gov

Example of an unlinked bill:

{{USBill|82|HRes|5678|site=yes}} returns HRes Template:Replace

See also

• Template:Tl, an analogous template for "Statutory Instrument (UK)"
• s:Template:USBill — When changes are made, please change them at Wikisource, too.

External link

• Linking to Congress.gov

List of all United States legal citation templates

These templates are for citing U.S. codes and laws. To cite court cases, use Template:Tl, or, for the U.S. Supreme Court, use Template:Tl.

Parameters in (parentheses) are optional.

Template(s)	Parameter(s)					Description
	1	2	3	4	pipe
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Title	Section	(end of section range)		(pipe)	United States Code (USC) via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Title	Section	Description			USC via Cornell: description of the section
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Title	Section			(pipe)	USC via Cornell: when citing one of a series of USC sections, where it would be redundant to display the full citation for each section, this template can be used to display only the section number.
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Title	Section	Up to 6 levels of "sub"			Access to subsection/paragraph/subparagraph/clause/... to allow correct hyperlinking to the anchors embedded in the Cornell pages.
Template:Tl	Title	Section	Up to 6 levels of "sub"			Combines Template:Tl and Template:Tl, eliminating redundancy when citing subsections / subparagraphs / &c.
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Title	Section	Clause			USC via Cornell: allows clauses
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Title	Chapter	(Subchapter)		(pipe)	USC via Cornell: title/chapter links.
Template:Tl	Section					Internal Revenue Code Template:Tl
Template:Tl	Volume	Page				Statutes at Large via the Library of Congress, the Government Publishing Office, or Google Books
Template:Tl	Congress	Ordinal law	(Description)			Public Law via GPO govinfo and https://uslaw.link/
Template:Tl	Congress	Ordinal law	(Volume)	(Page)		Combines Template:Tl and Template:Tl, optional Year ({{{5}}}), Month ({{{6}}}), Day ({{{7}}}), optional Template:Tl: (Bill type ({{{8}}}) and number ({{{9}}}))
Template:Tl	Congress	Bill type (S, SJ, HR, HJ)	Bill number (1-?)		(pipe)	Congressional bills via Congress.gov
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Year	Vote				House roll-call vote via Clerk.House.gov
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Congress	Session	Vote			Senate roll-call vote via Senate.gov
Template:Tl	Year	Page	(date)			Congressional Record via GPO FDsys
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Volume	Page				Federal Register via GPO FDsys
Template:Tl, Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Volume	Part	Section	(Clause)		Code of Federal Regulations via GPO FDsys
Template:Tl	Number					Executive orders via Wikisource
Template:Tl	Congress	Treaty number				Treaties
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	ChapterSection	Up to 7 levels of "sub"		(year)		Latest U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines (effective Nov. 1, 2012) via the U.S. Sentencing Commission website. Optional |year= references specific Guidelines applicable to a sentence imposed on or after Nov. 1st of that given year.
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Chapter					Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (current) via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Rule					Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (current) via federalrulesofcivilprocedure.org
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Rule					Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure (current) via federalrulesofbankruptcyprocedure.org
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Chapter					Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (current) via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Rule					Federal Rules of Evidence (current) via rulesofevidence.org
Template(s)	1	2	3	4	pipe	Description
	Parameter(s)

Links to a specific bill via Congress.gov

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Congress number	1	93–present Example 111	Number	required
Type	2	hr for House bill, hres for House Resolution, hjres for House Joint Resolution, hconres for House Concurrent Resolution, ha for House Amendment, s for Senate Bill, sres, sjres, sconres, sa Example hr	String	required
Bill number	3	no description Example 383	Number	required
which	which	If any data is here (i.e., non-blank), then adds "(Cong.)" to differentiate to the reader the Congress in which the bill was considered Example yes	Unknown	optional
pipe	pipe	If any data is here (i.e., non-blank), then overwrites generated text and adds piped text to link Example HR383	String	optional
site	site	If any data is here (i.e., non-blank), it adds " at Congress.gov." "Site" will not apply if there's no link, (i.e. {{{1}}}<93). "Site" is useful when including bills in lists, such as External links	Unknown	optional