diff --git a/chicago/bills.py b/chicago/bills.py
index c0d37ed1..46a5b6bb 100644
--- a/chicago/bills.py
+++ b/chicago/bills.py
@@ -121,7 +121,11 @@ def scrape(self):
 
     def extractVotes(self, action_detail_url) :
         action_detail_page = self.lxmlize(action_detail_url)
-        vote_table = action_detail_page.xpath("//table[@id='ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_gridVote_ctl00']")[0]
+        try:
+            vote_table = action_detail_page.xpath("//table[@id='ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_gridVote_ctl00']")[0]
+        except IndexError:
+            self.warning("No votes found in table")
+            return None, []
         votes = list(self.parseDataTable(vote_table))
         vote_list = []
         for vote, _, _ in votes :
@@ -181,11 +185,16 @@ def addDetails(self, bill, detail_url) :
 
         legislation_details = self.parseDetails(detail_div)
         
-
         for related_bill in legislation_details.get('Related files', []) :
-            bill.add_related_bill(identifier = related_bill['label'],
+            title = bill.title
+            if ("sundry" in title.lower()
+                or "miscellaneous" in title.lower()): #these are ominbus
+                bill.add_related_bill(identifier = related_bill['label'],
                                   legislative_session = bill.legislative_session,
-                                  relation_type='pending')
+                                  relation_type='replaces')
+            #for now we're skipping related bills if they
+            #don't contain words that make us think they're
+            #in a ominbus relationship with each other
 
         for i, sponsor in enumerate(legislation_details.get('Sponsors', [])) :
             if i == 0 :
@@ -244,6 +253,7 @@ def addDetails(self, bill, detail_url) :
                          'Published in Special Pamphlet' : None,
                          'Adopted as Substitute' : None,
                          'Deferred and Published' : None,
+                         'Approved as Amended' : 'passage',
 }
 
 VOTE_OPTIONS = {'yea' : 'yes',
diff --git a/chicago/legistar.py b/chicago/legistar.py
index f518589b..44f7da8c 100644
--- a/chicago/legistar.py
+++ b/chicago/legistar.py
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ class LegistarScraper(Scraper):
 
     def lxmlize(self, url, payload=None):
         if payload :
-            entry = self.urlopen(url, 'POST', payload)
+            entry = self.post(url, payload).text
         else :
-            entry = self.urlopen(url)
+            entry = self.get(url).text
         page = lxml.html.fromstring(entry)
         page.make_links_absolute(url)
         return page
@@ -118,14 +118,15 @@ def parseDataTable(self, table):
 
 
     def _get_link_address(self, link):
-        if 'onclick' in link.attrib :
+        url = None
+        if 'onclick' in link.attrib:
             onclick = link.attrib['onclick']
-            if onclick is not None and onclick.startswith("radopen('"):
+            if (onclick is not None 
+                and (onclick.startswith("radopen('")
+                    or onclick.startswith("window.open"))):
                 url = self.base_url + onclick.split("'")[1]
         elif 'href' in link.attrib : 
             url = link.attrib['href']
-        else :
-            url = None
 
         return url