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@ademidun ademidun commented Jun 23, 2022

Adding links to referenced texts gives readers an easy way to go to a referenced document to learn more about it.

For example, when the document says:

"In General.—Subtitle VI of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding after chapter 97 the following:"

It's helpful to provide the reader with a link to Subtitle VI of title 31 and chapter 97.

Or when the document says:

"(7) Security.—The term ‘security’ has the meaning given the term in section 3(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)).

It's helpful to link to section 3(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and even better when we can link to the specific page.

In general, I tried to pick .gov sources since it would be the most authoritative source, but in some cases, law.cornell.edu was a better reference.

I only had enough time to add a couple links but I want to use this pull request as a starting point to inspire others to add more links.

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Adding links to referenced texts gives readers an easy way to go to a referenced document to learn more about it.

For example, when the document says "In General.—Subtitle VI of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding after chapter 97 the following:", it's helpful to provide the reader with a  link to [Subtitle VI of title 31](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/subtitle-VI) and [chapter 97](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/7/1a#21).

In general, I tried to pick `.gov` sources since it would be the most authoritative source but in some cases `law.cornell.edu` was a better reference. 

I only had enough time to add a couple links but I want to use this pull request as a starting point to inspire others to add more links.
to keep this PR focused on only adding links, Ive removed any heading changes that I accidentally copied over from responsible-financial-innovation-act22#11
@ademidun ademidun changed the title added links to document add links Jun 23, 2022
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The one legit issue/pr 😂. More broadly, all bills should be written with links.

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Thanks @Jacob-Stevens-Haas ! Although, it seems like this repo is not being managed.

I've made a proposal to fork the bill and make a new one that we can all actively contribute towards and manage.

If you support the idea, please contribute and share.

https://github.com/responsible-financial-innovation-act22/RFIA-bill/issues/41
https://github.com/atilatech/RFIA-bill

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HartS commented Jun 25, 2022

If the other legislation is also hosted on github, these links can be updated to include permalinks that will continue working after further revisions/amendments. See https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/using-files/getting-permanent-links-to-files

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