Search Austria’s federal lawmaking pipeline BEFORE promulgation — the monitoring counterpart to ris_search_gazette (what will become law). stage selects the phase: review_drafts (Begutachtungsentwürfe — draft laws a ministry has put into public review, before any government bill exists) or government_bills (Regierungsvorlagen — bills the council of ministers adopted and submitted to parliament, 2004+). Filter by query (full text), title, ministry (accepts an abbreviation like "BMF" — expanded to RIS’s exact designation; the historical name at submission time counts), in_review_on (review_drafts only — drafts whose review window covers the date; today = "what is in Begutachtung right now"), or decided_from/to (government_bills only — council adoption date). changed_since gives coarse recency. Each record carries materials — the companion documents filed with the draft (Erläuterungen, Textgegenüberstellung, Vorblatt/WFA, covering letter, annexes); the Erläuterungen carry the drafting reasoning the bill text omits, and passing a materials[].url to ris_get_document as document_url is the only way to read one (format there picks the rendition returned). Documents are preparatory, not binding law. Ministry codes: ris_list_reference topic ministries.
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