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A pattern tag is not a Certified scam grade.
Every bill gets a first read the day it lands. Initial review means that first read. Reviewed means a second, independent read agreed with the grade, each charge's quote was checked against the bill text, and the headline was checked, or the editor decided it.
Needs review means a second, independent read disagreed with the first on a charge or the headline. The bill keeps its grade until the editor decides.
Certified scam means the editor read the bill and signed off on the charge.
The bill creates no duty, no penalty, no agency and no deadline.
No bill carries this tag yet.
The bill creates no duty, no penalty, no agency and no deadline. It states a position and changes nothing.
Receipt: The operative section, with no shall, no penalty and no date in it.
Checked at the filing stage.
Bills · List of feelingsThe bill restates conduct the Penal Code or another statute already covers.
No bill carries this tag yet.
The bill restates conduct the Penal Code or another statute already covers.
Receipt: The new offense next to the existing section it duplicates.
Checked at the filing stage.
Bills · Already a crimeAn exception lets the realistic main case through the ban.
No bill carries this tag yet.
An exception lets the realistic main case through the ban. It need not be written as wide as the ban to defeat the promise.
Receipt: The ban and the exception, quoted together.
Checked at the filing stage.
Bills · The holeAction is deferred to a body that reports later, usually after the next election.
No bill carries this tag yet.
Action is deferred to a body that reports later, usually after the next election.
Receipt: The section that creates the body and the date its report is due.
Checked at the filing stage.
Bills · Study, task force, commission, reportPopulation brackets or other filters that target one county, city or district while the caption reads statewide.
No bill carries this tag yet.
Population brackets or other filters that target one county, city or district while the caption reads statewide.
Receipt: The bracket, with the one place it fits.
Checked at the filing stage.
Bills · Bracket billOne industry, one license class or one named entity gets the benefit or the exemption.
No bill carries this tag yet.
One industry, one license class or one named entity gets the benefit or the exemption.
Receipt: The clause that names or defines the beneficiary.
Checked at the filing stage.
Bills · Carve-outThe bill creates a fee, a dedicated fund, a board, or seats someone appoints.
No bill carries this tag yet.
The bill creates a fee, a dedicated fund, a board, or seats someone appoints.
Receipt: The section that creates it and who appoints.
Checked at the filing stage.
Bills · New fee, fund, board or appointeesThe bill renames, designates, commemorates or declares, and nothing else.
No bill carries this tag yet.
The bill renames, designates, commemorates or declares, and nothing else.
Receipt: The whole operative text.
Checked at the filing stage.
Bills · Renaming and ceremonialFiled in prior sessions and died there.
This count covers graded Perennial tags only. The grader does not test earlier sessions. Repeat filings appear separately as TRY NO., BACK FROM THE DEAD and ZOMBIE BILL labels.
No bill carries this tag yet.
Filed in prior sessions and died there. Same caption, same author or the same shop.
Receipt: The prior bill numbers and where each one stopped.
Not tested yet
Bills · PerennialThe relating-to line is narrower or broader than what the body does.
No bill carries this tag yet.
The relating-to line is narrower or broader than what the body does.
Receipt: The caption next to the section it does not describe.
Checked at the filing stage.
Bills · Caption mismatchThe effective date, the sunset or the first deadline lands after the next election.
No bill carries this tag yet.
The effective date, the sunset or the first deadline lands after the next election.
Receipt: The effective-date section.
Checked at the filing stage.
Bills · Delayed startThe fiscal note cost does not match what the caption sells.
No bill carries this tag yet.
The fiscal note cost does not match what the caption sells.
Receipt: The fiscal note line and the caption.
Not tested yet
Bills · Fiscal surpriseThe witness list shows who registered for and against, and it is an industry, not the public.
No bill carries this tag yet.
The witness list shows who registered for and against, and it is an industry, not the public.
Receipt: The witness list entries.
Not tested yet
Bills · Lobby fingerprintThe author's donors sit in the industry the bill helps.
No bill carries this tag yet.
The author's donors sit in the industry the bill helps.
Receipt: The TEC contribution rows, with employer and amount.
Not tested yet
Bills · Donor fingerprintThe ban reaches further than the pitch.
No bill carries this tag yet.
The ban reaches further than the pitch. A definition sweeps people or conduct into a ban beyond the target the caption names.
Receipt: The definitions section quoted next to the caption.
Checked at the filing stage.
Bills · DragnetDerived stocks: tagged measures in the 90R published record. Each measure counts once per pattern. Snapshot not recorded.
Examples show up to three measures from each pattern's list. A measure may carry several patterns. Grades, headlines and charges follow the published record.
A pattern only counts when the reader can quote the clause that triggers it. Each bill gets one of three results: No flags, Smells or Certified scam. The editor can overrule any of them.
Headline, summary and grade are analysis of the bill text, not a finding about any person.
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