Bill Tracking and Subscription Services on Legislative Websites

Last update: January 12, 2012

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. The legislative websites listed below offer:

E-mail notification services for bill tracking
Personalized lists or customization for bill tracking
E-mail notifications for other types of legislative information, such as committee notices
Enhanced bill tracking information for a fee–providing more features, detailed information or real-time updates.
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 Notification Bill Tracking Services

Alaska	Bill Tracking Management Facility
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 House	Personalized Legislative Tracking
Florida Senate	Senate Tracker
Hawaii	Measure Tracking
Idaho	Idaho Bill Tracker
Iowa	Bill 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

Bill Tracking with Personalized Lists/Customized Webpages

Alabama	Personal Instrument List
Arizona	ALIS Tracking
Illinois	My Legislation
Iowa	Bill and Code Watch
Maryland	Up to the Minute Bill Profiles
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

Nebraska	Bill Tracker Premium Services
New York	New York Legislative Retrieval System
Virginia	Lobbyist In-a-Box

E-mail Subscriptions--Other Legislative Information

California Senate Office of Research (new reports and special events)

Hawaii

Hearing Notification

Iowa

E-mail Subscriptions to Iowa Legislative Publications (Legislative publications, committee notices, administrative rules, etc.)

Louisiana
E-mail Notification of Interim Committee Meetings

Michigan Committee Notice Signup

Minnesota House

House Mailing Lists (Schedules, press releases, Order of Business updates and other updates)

Minnesota Senate

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

Nevada Interim Committee Information

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)

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)
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) Senate Agendas, Audio, Video (Senate information is part of other information provided by Olelo Community Media.)
Idaho	RSS feeds for House and Senate reading calendars, legislative days action, committee information and bill status.
Iowa	RSS feeds for newly filed legislation and amendments, committee and subcommittee information
Louisiana	House Weekly Schedules, House Live Video Schedules
Michigan	Bill Updates (information)
Minnesota	Legislative Electronic Notification Services
	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)
	Minnesota House Standing Committee RSS Audio Feeds (podcasts)
North Carolina	News and Information
	Legislative calendar
	House calendar
	Senate calendar
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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Bill Tracking and Subscription Services on Legislative Websites

E-mail Notification Bill Tracking Services

Bill Tracking with Personalized Lists/Customized Webpages

Fee-Based Bill Tracking

E-mail Subscriptions--Other Legislative Information

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