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Staff ask for manual renumbering and long-title fixes in drafting tool
Summary
Drafting staff asked developers to stop automatic renumbering and to fix long-title generation and capitalization so long titles and internal references match decades-old office conventions.
Legislative staff told developers the system's automatic renumbering and long-title generator clash with long-standing drafting conventions. Staff said renumbering must be a manual action so drafters can preserve internal reference points during drafting; they requested a renumber button rather than a system that renumbers as documents change.
On long titles, staff asked for consistent uppercase formatting and the inclusion of internal placeholders (they use question marks as reminders to fill in 'purpose' text). Ethan Samsel demonstrated the long-title builder and said, "It tells me spell check needs to be run," adding that the office expects generated long titles to be uppercase and to include the customary wording such as 'and for related purposes.' Developers said template edits could address many formatting concerns but acknowledged some items need design work.
