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Staff request editable author lists and guarded report-edit permissions
Summary
Participants asked that author lists be pulled from subcommittee rosters by default, default to prior-year authors, and be editable so staff can add or remove authors; they also discussed whether committee reports should be editable and suggested locking that to super-admin roles.
Participants said authorship needs both a reliable default and flexibility. One attendee asked for a control to "edit authors" that would pull the subcommittee's member list into a bill and default to prior-year values until changed. The group described scenarios where subcommittee assignments are not set until mid-January and where staff sometimes need to create root bills before authors are finalized.
On report editing, participants debated locking committee-report edits to a limited set of users. Some members said reports should be immutable except to correct source data; others said limited editing (for emergency fixes) may be needed, and proposed permission levels or super-admin edits to reduce risk of ad-hoc changes to the system of record.
