About the officials roster

Elected Officials is the roster of one jurisdiction at a time: its legislators in both chambers, and its governor — or, for Congress, its members and the President. Choose anyone to open their profile in a panel that slides in.

One jurisdiction at a time#

Pick the jurisdiction from Jurisdiction at the top of the filters. Signed in, the page opens on the one you last looked at, here or on Legislation; otherwise it opens on California.

Members of Congress are listed under US Federal, not under the state that elected them: they sit in Congress, not the statehouse. On US Federal, search for a state's name or abbreviation to find its delegation.

The roster shows 60 officials a page, by chamber and then by name; Prev and Next move between pages. As on Legislation, you can show it as Cards or as a sortable Table, and switch to the Dashboard for seating charts, a map of districts by party, years of service and sponsor rankings.

Legislators and executives#

The Branch filter separates them: State Senate and the lower chamber under the state's own name (State Assembly, State House…), and Executive. For US Federal the chambers are U.S. Senate and U.S. House.

A legislator's profile centers on their voting and sponsorship record. A governor holds no seat and casts no votes, so their profile shows a signing record instead — bills signed, vetoed, and allowed to become law unsigned — with the terms they've served. The Dashboard leaves executives out: every chart there measures the legislature.

See Reading an official's profile.

Vacant seats#

A seat with nobody in it appears in the roster as a placeholder named for its district, so the chamber's size stays true. The Party filter counts vacancies on their own, under Vacant, rather than with the independents under Other; on the Dashboard's district map they're gray.

Former members#

The Status filter starts on Active, so the roster is the people you could contact today. Tick Retired to include former members; their cards say Retired with the year they left.

Someone is retired only when they hold no current role in the jurisdiction. A legislator who moved from the Assembly to the Senate is listed under the Senate seat they hold now.

Searching and filtering#

Search with Search by name, office, committee, or bio. The office includes the district — "District 14" finds that district's members, and those of District 140. The filters on the left narrow the roster further:

• Tracked bills — for members who work with tracked items: the officials who sponsor, will hear or will vote on your organization's tracked bills. See Tracked bills below.
• Branch, Party, Leadership (leadership positions), Committee, Status and Years in Chamber.
• Scorecard rating — signed-in readers can keep legislators by the grade they earned on one of the organization's scorecards.
• Sponsor effectiveness, Economic lean and Social lean — sliders, with a plan that includes analysis.

As on Legislation, each count shows what choosing that option would leave, given the other filters. Clear filters × resets Tracked bills, Branch, Party, Leadership, Committee, Status (back to Active), Years in Chamber and the lean sliders.

Tracked bills#

Before choosing whom to meet, find the officials who matter to your agenda. Under Tracked bills, just below Jurisdiction, check any of:

• Sponsor — they sponsor or cosponsor one of your tracked bills.
• Will hear in committee — they sit on the committee that holds one of your tracked bills now, or on a committee with one on an upcoming meeting's agenda.
• Will vote on — one of your tracked bills awaits a floor vote in their chamber. For a governor, it awaits their signature.

Checking two boxes shows officials who match either. Each box's count is how many officials it would show, given your other filters, and Tracked bills combines with every other filter as they do with each other.

While a box is checked, each card names the bills behind the match, such as Sponsor of SB 412 · will hear AB 1187, and the Table gains a Tracked bills column that sorts by how many. These are the same bills the official's panel lists under Our work, so the two always agree. See Officials, committees and hearings.

Only your organization's open tracked items that you can see count: items in a closed status, such as Done, don't, and a client member counts only their own client's bills and the work shared with them. A bill left in a committee or on the floor when its session adjourned is no longer heard or voted on, so it counts only for its sponsors, or for a committee that has it on an upcoming agenda, such as an interim hearing. A bill awaiting the governor's signature counts for 130 days after adjournment, since governors act after the session ends.

Tracked bills is shown only to members who can read tracked items. A saved view that uses it still opens for everyone else, with that part set aside and a note saying so. It stays part of the view, and it's never applied in the API, widgets or public pages, which never carry your organization's work.