A Senate Still On 1997 Screensaver
The A Senate Still On 1997 screensaver shows matters updated in Brazil's Federal Senate, key-less. This is an updated-recently feed rather than a filed-recently one, and the difference is the character of it: a provisional measure first put before Congress in 1997 appears the day a clerk touches its file, so both dates are drawn. It's free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
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Matters updated in Brazil's Federal Senate, key-less. This is an updated-recently feed rather than a filed-recently one, and the difference is the character of it: a provisional measure first put before Congress in 1997 appears the day a clerk touches its file, so both dates are drawn.
It refreshes on a schedule, so what you see stays current.
Colours can be changed in settings; nothing is stored beyond your own browser.
How Brazil's Senate records its work
Brazil's National Congress has two houses, the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate, whose 81 members are elected three per state and for the Federal District. The Senate publishes open data through its dadosabertos service, covering senators, legislative materials, committees, votes, speeches, provisional measures and more, in XML or JSON. Each matéria, meaning an item moving through the chamber, has a type, a number and a year, and an ementa, a short official summary.
The feed is organised by when an item was last updated, not when it was filed. That is why a bill from decades ago can appear beside this week's proposals: old matters stay in the system and can be touched again, and an update says only that the record changed.
Naming has shifted over time. Before 2019 a bill originating in the Senate was a PLS (Projeto de Lei do Senado) and one from the Chamber a PLC. Under a joint act signed in December 2018, the two houses unified bill numbering from February 2019, and all such bills are now simply PL. Propositions from before 2019 keep their old designation until they change houses. The text is in Portuguese and the summaries are in the Senate's own formal register.
A worked example
Matters updated in Brazil's Federal Senate, key-less. This is an updated-recently feed rather than a filed-recently one, and the difference is the character of it: a provisional measure first put before Congress in 1997 appears the day a clerk touches its file, so both dates are drawn.
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Frequently asked questions
- Is this real data?
- Yes — it comes from the source named on this page and is refreshed on a schedule.
- Is a key needed?
- No. This source is fully key-less.
- Is it free?
- Yes, and it runs entirely in your browser.
- Why do very old bills show up as recent?
- The feed lists items by when they were last updated, and an old proposal can be touched again at any time.
- What is an ementa?
- The brief official summary of what a bill or measure does.
- What happened to the PLS prefix?
- Since February 2019 the Senate and Chamber use a single numbering, and Senate-originated bills are called PL like the Chamber's. Older bills keep their old designation until they change houses.