CHASY® бн The Word on "Chamber Automation Systems"

Bill Tracking

CHASY® Bill Tracking gives you complete access to bills, amendments, committee reports, committee schedules, floor calendars, actions, fiscal statements, statutes, constitution and much more.

Novanis' Chamber Automation System (CHASY) gives you more complete access to the wealth of information you need to do your job. Our software literally puts bills, authors, actions, calendar events, amendments, procedural, legal and scheduling information at your fingertips.

Touch-screen operation and a simple organizational structure make CHASY a pleasure to use - light-years faster and easier than searching through an imposing pile of paper. Using a three-tier client server design, you can have constant access to the most up-to-date legislative information in the process.

Research

CHASY® archives legal references such as the Constitution, executive orders and court decisions. The simple search function makes accessing information as easy as touching the screen.

Applications

The touch of a button allows you to access a myriad of office application options.

Daily Agenda

Through CHASY you can follow along as the floor action evolves. Keep track of each item as it moves through the process.

Bills

CHASY® gives you the status of any bill at any time. It shows earlier versions and amendments, as well as when the bill is scheduled to come before committee. You can attach notes and comments, while the document itself remains intact.

Schedule

With CHASY® , you always know the schedule for each bill, in each committee. With all your procedural information on a laptop, you can literally take the chamber down the hall or on the road to your district.

Bill Drafting
Take control of the whole process from draft requests through enrolling and engrossing with CHASY® Bill Drafting.

Are you still drafting bills by hand?

There is a better way!

Take control of the whole process from draft requests through enrolling and engrossing with BILL DRAFTING.

Novanis' Bill Drafting system can readily handle draft requests, manage work assignments and roles, and create and route requested documents.

System Features

Novanis's Bill Drafting system handles every phase of the bill drafting process and features:

• Text entry and editing using Microsoft Word or WordPerfect
  
• Integrated Research Tool (search statutes as you draft legislation)
  
• Automatic Enrolling and Engrossing
  
• Automatically updates bill status in Front Desk Application (eliminates redundant entries)
  
• Automatic section renumbering
  
• Text can be protected from accidental deletion
  
• Confidential text is protected until bill is introduced
  
• Easily converts documents to HTML for Internet use
  
• Windows 98 compatible
  
• Year 2000 compliant

It's easy to manage your document creation process with BILL DRAFTING.

Document Management/Imaging

LibertyNET allows you to instantly, seamlessly deliver any piece of critical legislative information for your internal and external stakeholders via the Internet.

Front Desk

Document preparation, session recording, daily reporting and messaging tasks are all automated with CHASY® Front Desk.

Do you actually enjoy doing things the old-fashioned way?

Probably not.

Novanis has developed a software product that automates document preparation, session recording, and daily reporting tasks . . . FRONT DESK.

Session Documents

You can enter, modify, and track all kinds of documents with Front Desk including:

• Messages to each Chamber
  
• Opening Prayers
  
• Bill Introduction
  
• Committee Reports
  
• Vetoes
  
• Enrollments

Chamber Business

While in the chamber during a session, you can track and enter orders of business such as roll calls, motions on bills, legislator's guests, and more.

History and Reporting

Front Desk uses information entered before and during session to automatically generate your daily journal plus a calendar of the next day's events.
This feature alone can potentially save you hours of manual labor. In addition, Front desk keeps bill status data up-to-date so that CHASY users always have the most current information.

Preparing session documents, recording session business, and generating daily reports is easy with FRONT DESK.

Legislative Explorer

Are you still digging through piles of paper to find what you need?

No more!
Now you can work whenever and wherever you wish with LEGISLATIVE EXPLORER.

Finally! An easy-to-use information service designed especially for today's lobbyist. Legislative Explorer gives you immediate access to legislative information, no matter where you are in the country. Now you can instantly view and print bills, amendments, bill status, votes, floor calendars, committee schedules, and fiscal impact analyses from anywhere in the world!

System Features

• View bills, votes, calendars, schedules, fiscal impacts, and other information
  
• All information is stored locally
  
• Custom reports on demand
  
• Bill tracking and grouping for different clients
  
• Key word or phrase searching within all bills
  
• Windows 98 and Windows NT compliant

Legislative Explorer features a full database for fast and easy organization and searching of information. Bills can also be filtered by sponsor, committee, chamber, topic, status, and by your custom group. LE's most popular feature is custom grouping and tracking of bills. Legislative Explorer makes keeping track of your client's interests simple and efficient! Reports can be created automatically for you.

For the Sophisticated Lobbyist бн LEGISLATIVE EXPLORER.

Voting System

Automate your Legislative Chamber's voting with CHASY® VOTING SYSTEM.

Still counting votes the way you did when you were a kid?

It's time to move on.
Automate your chamber voting with Novanis' VOTING SYSTEM.

Software Features

You can enter, modify, and track all kinds of documents with Front Desk including:

• Data Link to Front Desk Database
  
• Roll Call
  
• Identify Presiding Officer
  
• Specify screens for Presiding Officer and Clerk Stations
  
• Bill Information
  
• End-of-Session Reports
  
• Attendance Reports
  
• Individual Vote Record Reports

Display Features

In addition to showing how each member voted, you can display full-motion presentations and customized messages on the screen. You can also create your own screen saver using Microsoft PowerPoint. The system includes laptop access and VCR/video links to the wall display.

Optional Features

You can add functionality to the system with these optional modules:

• Touch-Screen Page Control
  
• Microphone/PA Control
  
• Chamber Camera Control/Display
  
• Video Conferencing

Managing your chamber's voting process is simple with VOTING SYSTEM.

Constituent Management

LISN is a Web-enabled constituent service application that allows legislators and staff to effectively handle constituent problems/issues.

Apollo

Automate your entire legislative process by combining all CHASY® modules in a fully integrated system.

We're not changing what legislators do.

We're changing how they do it.

APOLLO is designed to be a complete legislative automation system. It lets you manage the information precisely the way you need it. You can access only the information you want. Or, design access for those people as required. And perform only the tasks you need to do. The APOLLO suite of products tracks a bill from the beginning of drafting until it reaches the executive's desk or is disposed, and eliminates the confusion and possible errors of multiple data entry.

APOLLO Modules

• Bill Drafting - This module of APOLLO is designed as a complete text management tool that will utilize an off the shelf word processor while giving your drafters on-line access to the state's legislative resource centers.
• Enrolling & Engrossing - After a bill passes the house, the E&E module automatically consolidates all amendments and revisions into a new, updated version of the bill.
• Floor Systems - APOLLO's floor system products track all new information, as well as changes the document may undergo during its legislative lifespan. This module maintains a complete record of every procedural legislative event that occurs in the chamber, and these systems keep the Bill Status systems up-to-date.
• Bill Status - Fed by other products from APOLLO, the Bill Status system is one that tracks both the current state of legislative documents and their history of legislative actions. Each user can query an individual document or define groups of documents they wish to track.
• CHASY - The Chamber Automation System element within APOLLO gives peripheral staff similar access to the system each lawmaker will utilize on the chamber floor.

Managing information your way is easy with APOLLO.