yes..but they are inserting it in the Virginia Code not Decoded.

so then you have to essentially go through the whole process again for the new stuff, right?

That was what I was planning on doing, but I realized partway through that there’s an easier way. While there’s a big import process every year for the new code, I’m working on a little patch system that will take the Code Commission’s occasional updates and apply them to Virginia Decoded throughout the year, making the same amendments to my copy of the code that the Code Commission has made to the official copy of the code. Exactly how that will work, though, I haven’t yet figured out. :)

yes..but they are inserting it in the Virginia Code not Decoded.

so then you have to essentially go through the whole process again for the new stuff, right?

In other words, they keep added to the original mucked up version and everything they add, you then have to figured out how to “de-code” it.

or am I all messed up in how I am looking at this…????

How do you UPDATE after each General Assembly session?

:-)

If there were no “corrections”, would the legislation match the code?

Although I imagine that it would, I cannot say so definitively, because I have not attempted to piece together updates to the code from legislation.

But what you’re not saying is that legislation somehow goes through this process grinder and ends up with unintended effects – or the vast majority of the legislation does intend generate code that works the way the legislation intended.

I’m not quite following, Larry, but I’ll give it a shot. :) The vast majority of legislation appears to accomplish just what it sets out to accomplish—that is, I believe that the resulting law is modified precisely as specified in the bill. But some legislation does emerge from the legislature with errors, and those errors that are caught by the Code Commission must be either corrected by them, or left to stand if the errors are severe, with the legislature fixing their mistake in the following year’s session.

This problem surely affects only a small percentage of all legislation, but if it routinely affects anymore more than a minute quantity of bills (as it does), then that is sufficient to make it impossible to apply legislation as a patch and believe that the resulting text is as accurate as the text produced by the Code Commission and Lexis Nexis.

I understand the “tweaking” that happens but it appears that the tweaking cannot violate the original fidelity of the intended legislation so what else would be different?

Your explanation of the process is fascinating…. and illuminating.

But what you’re not saying is that legislation somehow goes through this process grinder and ends up with unintended effects – or the vast majority of the legislation does intend generate code that works the way the legislation intended.

no?