Proposed wildfire legislation in California, 2001-2020

File includes wildfire-related bill and bill features (associated legislator, legislative process, and bill intent data) from California between the 2001-2002 and 2019-2020 legislative sessions. Bill topics stem from a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model using summary bill text from 294 wildfire-related bills identified by keywords and assessed for relevance from the California State Legislature. Bill features include topics, sponsor’s political party, sponsor’s gender, recent wildfire in the sponsor’s district, sponsor’s origin in a rural district, presence of co-sponsors, presence of bipartisan sponsorship, number of sessions served by the sponsor in the state legislature, number of other wildfire-related bills proposed by the sponsor in that session, urgency measure, state mandate language, review by either the House or Senate Appropriations Committee, number of House and Senate committees reviewing the bill, whether the bill was commemorative in nature, whether the bill focused on a particular geographic location, whether the bill focused on a socially vulnerable or historically disadvantaged group, emphasis on mitigation, emphasis on preparedness, emphasis on response, emphasis on short-term relief, emphasis on long-term recovery, emphasis on smoke, and bill passage or failure.

本数据集涵盖2001-2002至2019-2020立法会期内，美国加利福尼亚州与野火相关的法案及其特征数据，特征维度包含关联立法者信息、立法流程数据及法案意图数据。法案主题源自潜在狄利克雷分配（Latent Dirichlet Allocation, LDA）主题模型，该模型以加利福尼亚州州议会通过关键词筛选并经相关性评估的294份野火相关法案的摘要文本为训练数据构建。法案特征具体包括：法案主题、提案议员的政党归属、性别、其选区是否发生过近期野火事件、议员是否来自农村选区、是否存在联合提案人、是否存在两党联合提案、议员在州议会的任职届数、该议员在本届会期内提出的其他野火相关法案数量、是否为紧急法案、是否包含州授权条款、是否经众议院或参议院拨款委员会审议、参众两院审议该法案的委员会总数、法案是否为纪念性法案、法案是否聚焦特定地理区域、法案是否关注社会脆弱群体或历史弱势群体、是否强调减灾、备灾、应急响应、短期救济、长期恢复与烟雾相关内容，以及法案最终的通过或否决结果。