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Bill Tracking and Subscription Services on Legislative Websites

Last update: May 23, 2013

Every state offers free public access to bill status information on the Internet. Increasingly, however, legislatures are offering online tools that make it easier to track bills and keep up with legislative proceedings. The legislative websites listed below offer:

In addition, some state legislatures provide updates about bills and other legislative events via Twitter.


 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

 Maryland  Legislation Tracking

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

 Rhode Island  Bill Tracker

South Carolina

 Legislative Information Tracking System

Texas

 MyTLO

 Utah  Webwatch (After retrieving a bill, users may subscribe for updates by providing an e-mail address.)

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, ALIS Tracking Guide

Illinois

 My Legislation

Iowa

 Bill and Code Watch

 Louisiana  My Legis
 Maryland  Up to the Minute Bill Profiles

Missouri Senate

 Bill Reporting System

New Jersey

 Bill Subscription Service

 North Dakota  Legislative Bill Tracking System

Oklahoma

 Personal Bill TrackingLegislative Electronic Notification Service (LENS)

 Rhode Island  Bill Tracker

South Dakota

 My Legislative Research

Tennessee  My Bills

Washington

 Selected Bill Tracking

West Virginia

 Personalized Bill Tracking

  


  E-mail Subscriptions--Other Legislative Information

 

California  Senate Office of Research (new reports and special events)
 Florida Senate  Committees, Publications, Press Releases, etc.

Hawaii

 Hearing Notification

Iowa

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

 Louisiana

 E-mail Notification of Committee Meetings

 Maryland  Legislation Tracking
 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 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
 Colorado  Bills, Calendars, Journals and Status Sheets
 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
 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)
 Missouri  House News
 Senate News
 New York  Senate (news from Senators, committees, featured video, etc.)
 North Carolina  News and Information
   Legislative calendar
   House calendar
   Senate calendar
 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.  

 

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