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State Legislative Bill Tracking and Update Services

(Single-State Bill Tracking)

Last update: March 16, 2009

Every state offers free public access to bill status and/or bill text via the Internet. Increasingly, however, legislatures are offering online tools that make it easy to track bills and keep up with legislative proceedings. Internet users can sign up for e-mail notifications when actions are reported on bills of interest. At least 21 states offer this type of free e-mail subscription service. In addition to bill tracking services, several states provide e-mail notifications of other types of legislative information.

Other states provide for bill tracking through the creation of personalized lists or customized web pages that can be viewed on the legislative website.

Some states offer enhanced bill tracking information for a fee–providing more features, detailed information or real-time updates.

A growing number of legislatures are providing updates via RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary), a service that alerts users to new content on the web, such as committee notices, new actions on bills or news updates.

E-mail Subscription Bill Tracking

Alaska	Bill Tracking Management Facility (The system is currently limited to users with a valid State of Alaska Account ID)
Arkansas	Batch Bill Status
California	Bill Information (After retrieving a bill, users may subscribe for updates by providing an e-mail address.)
Connecticut	Public Bill Tracking
Delaware	MyLIS
Florida	Personalized Legislative Tracking
Kentucky	Bill Watch
Michigan	Michigan Notification Service
Minnesota	MyBills Subscription Service
Montana	Montana LAWS Preference List
Nebraska	Bill Tracker
Nevada	Personalized Bill Tracking
New Jersey	Bill Subscription Service
New Mexico	MyRoundhouse
Pennsylvania	Individual Bill Updates
South Carolina	Legislative Information Tracking System
Texas	MyTLO
Utah	Bill Tracking (After retrieving a bill, users may subscribe for updates by providing an e-mail address. Users may also have a free account that allows them to create personalized lists of bills.)
Virginia	Lobbyist-in-a-Box Free Service (Track up to five bills)
Wisconsin	Legislative Notification System

E-mail Subscriptions--Other Legislative Information

California Senate Office of Research

Colorado Office of Legislative Legal Services

Hawaii

Hearing Notices by E-mail

Iowa

E-mail Subscriptions to Iowa Legislative Publications (Legislative publications, committee notices, subcommittee assignments and approved minutes)

Louisiana
E-mail Notification of Interim Committee Meetings

Maine

Advance Notice of Public Hearings

Minnesota House

House Mailing Lists (General news, committee and member updates)

Minnesota Senate

Senate Email List Subscription Form (Senate schedules, committee notices)

Nebraska Weekly Update

North Dakota

Subscription Services (Interim committee meeting notices and minutes)

North Carolina

House & Senate Calendars Via E-Mail

Pennsylvania Daily Session Activity

South Dakota

Agenda and Calendar Tracking System

Oregon

E-Mail Updates (general legislative news, news from legislators, committees)

Washington

Legislative Lists (Schedules for committee and floor sessions, agendas for House and Senate standing committees)

Bill Tracking with Personalized Lists or Web Tracking

Alabama	Personal Instrument List
Arizona	ALIS Tracking
Illinois	My Legislation
Iowa	Bill Watch
Missouri Senate	Bill Reporting System
New Jersey	Bill Subscription Service
Oklahoma	Personal Bill Tracking
South Dakota	My Legislative Research
Tennessee	My Bills
Washington	Selected Bill Tracking
West Virginia	Personalized Bill Tracking

Fee-Based Bill Tracking

Kansas	Lobbyist In-a-Box
Maryland	Up-to-the-Minute Bill Profiles (Generates lists from files maintained on the user’s computer. The user must send the file to the site which makes an ‘Up-to-the-Minute’ report.)
Nebraska	Bill Tracker Premium Services
New York	New York Legislative Retrieval System
North Dakota	Legislative Bill Tracking System
Virginia	Lobbyist In-a-Box

Legislative Updates via RSS (Really Simple Syndication/Rich Site Summary)

Arizona	Video feeds
Arkansas House	Weekly session updates
California	Legislative Analyst's Office
Delaware	Bill status (Introduced bills, House/Senate passed bills, Governor signed)
Georgia Senate	Senate Press Office
	House Communications Office
Hawaii	Legislative Reference Bureau reports Individual Bill Status (After clicking on the bill status link for a bill, users can click on the orange RSS icon next to the bill number to view the feed)
Idaho	House and Senate reading calendars
Iowa	Newly filed legislation
Louisiana	House Weekly Schedules, House Live Video Schedules
Michigan	Bill Updates (information)
Minnesota	Just in (new content available from the Legislative Reference Library)
	What's New (new content available on the Legislative Web site)
	Session Daily (news stories from the House Public Information Office)
	Member News and Views (news from House members)
	Members' Press Releases (news from Senate members)
	My Bills (customized bill tracking)
	Minnesota House Standing Committee RSS Audio Feeds (podcasts)
Nebraska	Unicameral Update
North Carolina	Web Site News
Rhode Island	Secretary of State bill tracking
South Dakota	Administrative Rules
Tennessee	My Bills
Texas	Legislative Council Bill text, fiscal notes, analyses, schedules, agendas
Utah	Bill tracking, Legislative committees
Washington	Bill tracking
West Virginia	Members' news releases, interim highlights, meeting schedules, legislature's newsletter
Wisconsin	Legislative Reference Bureau publications

Please contact Pam Greenberg with questions or with updates and changes to this list. 303-364-7700 ext. 1413, pam.greenberg at ncsl.org.

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