Roll calls

A roll call is a recorded vote of each member of a chamber. Some roll call votes are required by law or chamber rules, but sometimes a chamber member may request a roll call vote to be taken and recorded.

Rollcalls are, similarly to fiscal notes, sub-resources of bills and as such discoverable from the bill version representation.

Resources

Resource	Description	Alternative Representations
/{session}/rollcalls	A list of all roll calls this session, this is mostly for completeness, generally the fiscal note will be looked up using the bill representation.
{session}/rollcalls/{id}	A particular roll call	application/pdf

Supported Filter Parameters

Parameter	Description
bill	Searches for roll calls associated with a particular bill number (e.g. HB1001) or target id (e.g. HB1001.02.COMH)
type	Returns roll calls of the given type, where type can be one of ‘amendment’, ‘conference-committee-report’, or ‘bill’.

Examples

Get a particular roll call:

curl -i \
     -X GET \
     -H "Accept: application/pdf" \
     https://api.iga.in.gov/2014/rollcalls/MTE4LzIwMTQvY2FiaW5ldC9iaWxscy9ob3VzZS9IQjEwMDQvcm9sbGNhbGwvSEIxMDA0LjAzLkVOR0guMjEucGRmLmh0bWw=

{
    "target": "SB0316.03.ENGS",
    "chamber": {
        "link": "/2015/chambers/senate",
        "name": "Senate"
    },
    "rollcall_number": "147",
    "results": {
        "yea": 50,
        "nay": "0"
    },
    "link":
        "/2015/rollcalls/MTE5LzIwMTUvY2FiaW5ldC9iaWxscy9zZW5hdGUvU0IwMzE2L3JvbGxjYWxsL1NCMDMxNi4xNDcucGRmLmh0bWw=",
    "revno": 285824,
    "pdfDownloadLink":
        "/2015/rollcalls/MTE5LzIwMTUvY2FiaW5ldC9iaWxscy9zZW5hdGUvU0IwMzE2L3JvbGxjYWxsL1NCMDMxNi4xNDcucGRmLmh0bWw=?format=pdf"
}

Filter roll calls by bill number:

curl -i \
     -X GET \
     -H "Accept: application/pdf" \
     https://api.iga.in.gov/2014/rollcalls?bill=HB1001

{
    "availableFilters": [
        "type",
        "bill"
    ],
    "appliedFilters": {
        "bill": "BILL"
    },
    "itemCount": 4,
    "items": [
        {
            "target": "HB1001.03.COMS",
            "chamber": {
                "link": "/2014/chambers/senate",
                "name": "Senate"
            },
            "rollcall_number": "276",
            "results": null,
            "link": "/2014/rollcalls/MTE4LzIwMTQvY2FiaW5ldC9iaWxscy9ob3VzZS9IQjEwMDEvcm9sbGNhbGwvSEIxMDAxLjAzLkNPTVMuMjc2LnBkZi5odG1s",
            "type": "BILL"
        },
        {
            "target": "HB1001.03.COMS.AMS001",
            "chamber": {
                "link": "/2014/chambers/senate",
                "name": "Senate"
            },
            "rollcall_number": "249",
            "results": null,
            "link": "/2014/rollcalls/MTE4LzIwMTQvY2FiaW5ldC9iaWxscy9ob3VzZS9IQjEwMDEvcm9sbGNhbGwvSEIxMDAxLjAzLkNPTVMuMjQ5LnBkZi5odG1s",
            "type": "AMENDMENT"
        },
        {
            "target": "HB1001.02.COMH",
            "chamber": {
                "link": "/2014/chambers/house",
                "name": "House"
            },
            "rollcall_number": "121",
            "results": null,
            "link": "/2014/rollcalls/MTE4LzIwMTQvY2FiaW5ldC9iaWxscy9ob3VzZS9IQjEwMDEvcm9sbGNhbGwvSEIxMDAxLjAyLkNPTUguMTIxLnBkZi5odG1s",
            "type": "BILL"
        },
        {
            "target": "HB1001.02.COMH.AMH006",
            "chamber": {
                "link": "/2014/chambers/house",
                "name": "House"
            },
            "rollcall_number": "114",
            "results": null,
            "link": "/2014/rollcalls/MTE4LzIwMTQvY2FiaW5ldC9iaWxscy9ob3VzZS9IQjEwMDEvcm9sbGNhbGwvSEIxMDAxLjAyLkNPTUguMTE0LnBkZi5odG1s",
            "type": "AMENDMENT"
        }
    ],
    "revno": 1244584
}