Where our data comes from

You should not have to take our word for anything on this site. Here is every place our information originates, and what we do and do not do to it.

Bills, sponsors, and votes

All legislative data comes from Open States, a project that collects bills, sponsors, votes, and legislator records from all 50 state legislatures, plus DC and Puerto Rico. Open States gathers this by reading each legislature's own website. Every bill page on this site links directly to those original government pages under “Where this page came from.”

Plain-language summaries

Where you see a summary marked “Plain language,” it was written by an AI model from the legislature's own official summary. The instructions it works under forbid it from saying whether a bill is good or bad, naming a party, describing who benefits, or guessing at anyone's motives. It describes mechanism only.

AI makes mistakes. That is why the official text is linked on every page, and why the official text always governs. If the two disagree, the legislature is right and we are wrong.

What we do not do

• We do not rank, score, or grade bills.
• We do not endorse candidates or parties.
• We do not color-code by party.
• We do not write commentary, analysis, or opinion.
• We do not accept payment to feature or bury anything.

What is missing

We currently cover state legislatures only. County and city ordinances are not included, because no free nationwide source for them exists. We would like to add them.

Data can also lag. Legislatures publish on their own schedules, and the scrapers that read them occasionally break when a state redesigns its website. If a state looks frozen, that is probably why.

Found something wrong?

Tell us. Corrections matter more here than anything else. Check the official source linked on the page first, then send us the bill and what you believe is incorrect.