Legislative tracking
Legislative tracking with a source URL on every record
Track bills across US federal, all 50 states, France, the EU, and the UK. Every record carries a source URL, a timestamp, and a verifier ID, so you can show where a status came from and when you knew it.
99.5% field-level accuracy · Source URL, timestamp and verifier ID on every record · US federal, 50 states, France, EU, UK
Traced record
CA AB 1836, amended in Senate committee
Joined signals
- Watchlist 'State privacy'
- Salesforce 'Issue: Data Privacy'
- Matching language in CO, WA
The volume is public. The provenance is not.
LegiScan states that "keeping up to date and tracking the 175,000+ bills each year can be a daunting task". Its live counter reports 207,800 pieces of legislation tracked from Congress and the 50 state legislatures in the active biennium.
Most teams still hold a slice of that in a shared spreadsheet. The spreadsheet records a status. It does not record the URL the status came from, the moment it was read, or the person who checked it. When someone asks how you know a bill moved, the answer is a screenshot.
- Bills introduced each year across Congress and the states
- 175,000+Bills introduced each year across Congress and the statesLegiScan
- Pieces of legislation tracked in the active biennium
- 207,800Pieces of legislation tracked in the active bienniumLegiScan live counter
- Jurisdictions on one record schema
- 5Jurisdictions on one record schemaMatterwire coverage
How tracking works
Every field carries its source
Bill ID, chamber, sponsor, status, committee assignment and version each record the URL they were read from and the time they were read.
Versions are kept, not overwritten
When a bill is amended the prior version stays in the record with its own timestamp. You can show what changed and on what date you saw it.
One schema across jurisdictions
A California bill and a UK statutory instrument arrive in the same record shape. One watchlist covers both, and one export covers both.
Matching language surfaces together
When similar bill text appears in another state, it joins the existing record instead of arriving as a separate alert.
What a tracked bill looks like
This is the full record, not a summary of it. The source URL resolves to the state legislature. The verifier ID identifies the person who checked the fields against that page.
Traced record
CA AB 1836, amended in Senate committee
Joined signals
- Watchlist 'State privacy'
- Salesforce 'Issue: Data Privacy'
- Matching language in CO, WA
The same bill record, in every jurisdiction you track
A California bill and a UK statutory instrument arrive in the same shape. One watchlist covers both, and one export covers both.
- US-FEDUS federal4 source types
- US-ST50 states4 source types
- FRFrance4 source types
- EUEU4 source types
- GBUK4 source types
Between a spreadsheet and a six-figure contract.
Tracking by hand costs you the provenance. Enterprise incumbents keep the data in their own dashboard and will not publish an accuracy figure or a price.
| Capability | Spreadsheets and email | Matterwire | Enterprise incumbents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source URL on every record | Manual, if someone pastes it | Yes | No |
| Capture timestamp and verifier ID | No | Yes | No |
| Published field-level accuracy SLA | No | 99.5% | No |
| Correlation into your own pipelines | No | Yes | Their dashboard only |
| Published pricing | Free, and it costs you time | Yes | No |
- Source URL on every record
- Spreadsheets and emailManual, if someone pastes itMatterwireYesEnterprise incumbentsNo
- Capture timestamp and verifier ID
- Spreadsheets and emailNoMatterwireYesEnterprise incumbentsNo
- Published field-level accuracy SLA
- Spreadsheets and emailNoMatterwire99.5%Enterprise incumbentsNo
- Correlation into your own pipelines
- Spreadsheets and emailNoMatterwireYesEnterprise incumbentsTheir dashboard only
- Published pricing
- Spreadsheets and emailFree, and it costs you timeMatterwireYesEnterprise incumbentsNo
Correlation into your stack
Tracked bills join your watchlists and the other pipelines you run. A status change can write to Salesforce, load into Snowflake, and post to Slack on the same schedule, with the source URL travelling alongside it.
Answers before the call.
See tracked bills from your own states.
Book a demo and we will pull live records for the jurisdictions and topics you cover, each one traced to the page it came from.
No obligation. 30 minutes, on your own jurisdictions.