The Legislative Master Report displays all the information available for the selected legislative file, including its sponsors, indexes, and history. The Master report contains the File Number, File Type, Status, Enacted Number, Effective, Version, In Control, File Name, Date Introduced, Requester, Cost, Final Action, Comment, Title, File Text, and History. To run this report, select a file in the Files module, click the Reports menu and select Master.
From the left menu, click Report Design>Legislative Files, then click Legislative Master. The General screen is displayed.
(Optional) Make the appropriate changes to these fields, then click Save:
Item
Description
Report Display Name
Change the report display name if necessary. This name appears at the top of the report.
Report Description
Change the report description if necessary. This description appears on the Settings screen for the report when you select it in the Files module.
Click the Settings tab. The following figure illustrates the Settings screen:
Make the appropriate changes to one or more of the following fields and checkboxes:
Item
Description
Legislative Files
This is a heading.
Show Legislative File History Notes
Select this checkbox to print the notes that were taken in reference to each action taken on the file.
Show Legislative File History Votes
Select this checkbox to print the votes that were taken on the file.
Show Action Text
Select this checkbox to include action text in the report.
Show Text Title
Select this checkbox to print the title contained in the Title field rather than the ..Title of the file text.
Legislative Text
This is a heading.
With Page Break, Without Page Break, or Do not show
Select With Page Break to print the report with the text printed on a second page after the Legislative File information, select Without Page Break to print the report with the text immediately following the history of the file, or select Do Not Show to print the report without the text of the file.
Show All Text
Select this checkbox to display all text on the report. You cannot select this option and the Sections option together, as this option overrides the sections specified in the Sections option, and prints the entire text of the file.
Code Section
This is a heading.
Code Section Show Number
Select this checkbox to print related code sections attached to a legislative file on the report.
Code Section Number First
Select this checkbox to print the code section number of related code sections attached to a legislative file.
Show Code Section Name
Select this checkbox to print the code section name of related code sections attached to a legislative file.
Code Section Number Separator
Accept the default separator or enter a different separator between the code section number and name.
Code Section Separator
Accept the default separator or enter a different separator between code sections on the report.
Sections
Click Sections to display the file sections, then select the checkboxes associated with the file sections you want to include on the report. You cannot select this option and the Show All Text option together.
