macadeliccc/US-FederalLaws

US Federal Laws

This dataset consists of US Federal laws that are voted in by either Senate, the House of Representatives or Executive Order

Taxonomy

Senate

• —The senate split contains the laws voted from the 88th congress through the 118th Congress.

House of Representatives

• —The houseofreps split contains all of the current versions of US Code as documented in Public Law 118-70
• —The date column will be the most recent amendment date if it was listed clearly, or it will be 7/12/2024 which is the date of which these revisions went into effect.

Executive Order

• —The executive_orders split contains all of the executive order documents starting in 2005 (Before 2005 the federal government does not have digital records of executive orders)

Sources

• —Congress
• —US House of Representatives
• —Federal Register

Loading Script

import datasets

ds = datasets.load_dataset('macadeliccc/US-FederalLaws', 'all', split='train')
iter_ds = ds.to_iterable_dataset()

print(next(iter(iter_ds)))