OpenBB-finance/OpenBB · warning · HTTPException

No text available for this amendment currently.

Error message

No text available for this amendment currently.

What it means

get_amendment_text gathers text from up to three sources — the amendment's own textVersions, an associated committee report, and the parent bill's textVersions (fetched only when bill_url is given, with its exceptions swallowed). If all are empty and is_workspace=False, HTTPException(404) is raised. Like the bill-text twin, this mostly means GPO has not published text for the amendment yet.

Source

Thrown at openbb_platform/providers/congress_gov/openbb_congress_gov/utils/helpers.py:841

    # Step 4: If no text versions found, fall back to the amended bill's text versions.
    bill_text_versions: list = []

    if not text_versions and not committee_report_text:
        amended_bill = amendment_detail.get("amendedBill", {})
        bill_url = amended_bill.get("url", "") if amended_bill else ""

        if bill_url:
            bill_text_url = bill_url.replace("?", "/text?") + f"&api_key={api_key}"

            try:
                bill_tv_response: dict = await amake_request(bill_text_url)  # type: ignore
                bill_text_versions = bill_tv_response.get("textVersions", [])
            except Exception:  # pylint: disable=broad-except  # noqa: S110
                pass

    if is_workspace is False:
        if not text_versions and not committee_report_text and not bill_text_versions:
            raise HTTPException(
                status_code=404,
                detail="No text available for this amendment currently.",
            )

        text_output: list = []
        seen_pdf_urls: set = set()

        def _deduped_entry(entry: dict, formats: list) -> dict | None:
            pdf_url = next(
                (f.get("url") for f in formats if f.get("type") == "PDF"), None
            )

            if pdf_url and pdf_url in seen_pdf_urls:
                return None

            if pdf_url:
                seen_pdf_urls.add(pdf_url)

View on GitHub (pinned to 3e071fcc2c)

Solutions

1. Catch 404 and surface 'text not yet published' as a normal state
2. Pass bill_url when you have it, so the parent-bill fallback can find text
3. Retry after 24-48h for newly offered amendments

Example fix

# before
text = await get_amendment_text(amendment_url=u, is_workspace=False)

# after
try:
    text = await get_amendment_text(amendment_url=u, bill_url=parent_bill, is_workspace=False)
except HTTPException as e:
    if e.status_code == 404:
        text = []  # no text published yet
    else:
        raise

def amendment_text_inputs_ready(amendment_url: str, bill_url: str | None) -> bool:
    return bool(amendment_url)  # pass bill_url too to enable the fallback source

from fastapi import HTTPException

async def safe_amendment_text(amendment_url: str, bill_url: str | None = None) -> list:
    try:
        return await get_amendment_text(amendment_url=amendment_url, bill_url=bill_url, is_workspace=False)
    except HTTPException as e:
        if e.status_code == 404:
            return []  # no text published yet
        raise

When it happens

Trigger: A recently offered amendment whose text is not yet on GPO; amendments that only exist as committee-report text with report_url absent; bill_url not passed, so the parent-bill fallback never runs.

Common situations: Dashboards deep-linking from amendment lists to text; amendment records whose text lives only in the linked bill but the bill_url field was dropped upstream.

Related errors

• No text available for this bill currently.
• Bill URL is required. Please provide a valid bill URL or num
• Amendment URL is required. Please provide a valid amendment
• Committee system code is required.
• Invalid bill type: {bill_type}. Must be one of {', '.join([o

AI-assisted analysis of OpenBB-finance/OpenBB@3e071fcc2c (2026-08-14). Data as JSON: /api/errors/c8013d1c75e5cc4e. Report an issue: GitHub.