Committee and bill introduction data for the lower chambers of select southern state legislatures. The dataset was authored by Michael Olson and is hosted on the Harvard Dataverse. It was last updated on March 18, -2026.
Use Cases
- Modeling legislative workflow efficiency based on committee assignment data.
- Analyzing bill introduction trends across southern state legislatures.
- Training classifiers to predict bill outcomes based on committee characteristics.
- Conducting comparative studies of legislative activity in different U.S. regions.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from the authoritative Harvard Dataverse repository.
- Focuses on a specific geographic and governmental context (southern U.S. state legislatures).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from official state legislative records.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-18 17:12:21; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Southern United States