Reuse law, instrument by instrument

What this page claims, and what it does not

The stages are the in-force tag's. Each filter is one of the states the tag names across lexlint.io, in its words (in force, not yet in force, blocked by a court, proposed, no longer in force, and never in force), and each filter's label wears that tag's mark. In the tables a law in force is unmarked, its date in plain text, and every other law wears the same tag the rest of lexlint.io draws: highlighted, boxed, dotted, or struck with its reason underlined. A withdrawn bill has a filter of its own, never in force: the /law/<jurisdiction> docket leaves it out, and "no longer in force" would be false of a law that never was.

Blocked by a court has its own filter. A law a court has blocked is neither in force nor gone: an injunction can be lifted on appeal, and the duty with it. Pooled with a repeal it would hide a count that reads as a signal, how contested a jurisdictional hook is. It is off by default, with the proposals and the laws that have ended.

One date column, and it says what kind of date it is. The date is the day the law started or starts to bind: the earlier of a published start date and the instrument's own date. Neither source is reliably the start, and the earlier one cannot make a law look newer than it is. The column draws the in-force tag, so a bare date never stands beside a law that has stopped: a law in force reads "since" its date, a law not yet in force is highlighted with its date and how far off it is, a law a court has blocked is boxed in red, and an ended law has its dates struck and its reason underlined. Nothing is inferred from our own review date.

The map is the table. Its fill is the count of instruments at the stages you chose, binned on the same RAMP_BINS edges /law/map uses, and it redraws on every change. Point at, click, or tab to a place for what applies there, every stage it holds shown even when your filter is excluding it.

Three ways of showing nothing, and they are different claims. A place washed pale holds reuse law your filter is excluding, so widening the filter brings it back. A hatched place is one we track and hold no reuse law for at all: that is a statement about our research, not about the law. A white place has no jurisdiction record for this topic at all. Only the first of the three moves when you change the filter; the other two are facts about us and hold still.

Nothing here needs the script. The default resultset is in the HTML: counts, tally, map fills and the hidden rows are all rendered at build. The script recomputes them when a box changes and does nothing else, which is what lets this page ship under script-src 'self' and be read whole by a crawler.

Every instrument here links its own note page, which carries the primary source and the date it was read. This is a research index, not legal advice.