Key Phrase Management

Purpose

A key phrase decides which bills become candidates for a requirement. It does not decide whether a bill helps or hinders — that judgement is recorded separately in the Direction Tagging Queue.

A requirement whose phrases describe only one way of reaching its outcome will only ever match bills taking that route. Bills pursuing the same outcome differently, or working against it, never come up for review at all — so they cannot be judged either way.

Procedure

1. Open a requirement below and read its statement.
2. Look at Bills with no requirement for that subject. If a bill plainly bears on the requirement but is not matched, a phrase is missing.
3. Check Suggested phrases, or type your own, and press Preview to see exactly which bills it would capture.
4. If the preview looks right, press Add phrase.
5. Press Check sync status, apply the sync, then re-run candidate matching. Nothing reaches a score until both are done.

Choose phrases for whether they describe a genuine route to or from what the requirement measures — never for what they would do to any member's or party's numbers.