Electronic Bill Analysis Reduces Paper Waste
Technology has facilitated the lawmaking process, but the lack of advanced applications has lawmakers drowning in a virtual sea of legislation.
Lawmakers Special Interests Citizens Journals
10,621 bills introduced by the 111th Congress consuming 233 trees.
Total consumption of paper in Washington D.C. jumped from 108,000 tons in 2004 to 114,000 tons in 2008.
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In January of 2011 the House of Representatives unanmiously approved (399-0) STOP H.R. 292, a bill to stop the mandatory printing of congressional documents. This is a great step forward, but no one is salivating over the opportunity to read a 2,000-page bill on a computer screen.
To get lawmakers energized, LitCentral has patented smart analytical toolsets to accompany sleek modern devices such as iPads, Kindles, lightweight laptops and the like. This patented IP is available as a platform or licensing model.
LitCentral's patented IP - Government Legislation Management & Analysis (GLMA) - is a state-of-the-art methodology providing the ability to READ
legislation electronically. Other benefits of the application introduce tool sets to QUICKLY ANALYZE and COMPREHEND the content - while the bill is being read.
While reading and analyzing the bill, a conclusive report is simultaneously generated. This report quantifies the user's overall opinion (probability of vote outcome) and displays the results in graph format. The report presents an itemized accounting of items the user favors, opposes and/or wishes to amend.
GLMA is simple and intuitive, making it easy to understand the content of legislation and quickly formulate an opinion. Artificial intelligence extracts keywords within the bill to identify any nonrelevant information.
Access legislation anytime/anywhereSimultaneously read & analyze a billGenerate an interactive reportProduce the probability of voteMerge opinions of committee, staff, political partySimple and easy to useDecrease paper costsLight eco-footprint
Consider a long-term politician who is asked by the media to elaborate on a particular vote 10 years prior. Using GLMA’s application, not only is it easy to retrieve the bill in question, but the analysis report(s) is also readily available, offering insight into the original vote.
Copyright LitCentral, Inc. 2012 Patents US 7,865,510 US 8,019,755
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