What's new

Briefs and the Weekly digest#

• The Weekly digest. Every Monday morning in your time zone, at the top of My work and by email: what changed last week on the bills you own or watch, what's coming this week, and what you're waiting on from others. AI writes it from the facts of your week, and code checks it against them before it's shown; a week that can't be checked arrives as its facts, and a quiet week sends nothing. Paragraphs drawn from your team's notes stay on My work, so the email carries only what comes from the public record and your own tasks. It replaces the weekly My work email and is on by default with a Full license. An Owner or Admin can turn off Write the Weekly digest with AI under Organization › Workflow, and digests are then the facts alone. See The weekly digest.

• Amendments in the API, MCP, webhooks and bulk datasets. Bill detail in the API now lists a bill's amendments, a new endpoint lists the amendments a legislator offered, an assistant connected through MCP reads both, a webhook can send when an amendment is adopted or fails, and the bulk datasets add a file of amendments per jurisdiction and session. Each covers only the legislatures whose amendments CapitolMath records, with no outcome ever guessed. See Amendments.

• Amendments on your tracked bills and officials. An amendment offered or decided on a bill you own or watch now makes it unread, with an Amendment chip, and a status rule can run when the bill has an amendment adopted. An official's panel shows Amendments offered: their amendments in the session by what became of them, each opening the bill at that amendment. Each covers only the legislatures whose amendments CapitolMath records, with no outcome ever guessed. See Unread changes.

Week of November 2, 2026#

• A webhook waits for its owner when its view changes. A webhook sends what its owner chose. Now, if someone else changes the filters of the saved view it sends from, the bills in a list it sends from, or a scorecard its view rates by, the webhook pauses and its owner is told, in the app and by email or Slack or Teams. Nothing new goes out until they review the change and resume it, and nothing made from the changed view in the meantime is ever sent. Before you save a change to a view, the dialog says how many webhooks it will pause. Renaming a view or changing who it's shared with pauses nothing. See Whose webhook it is.
• Our work on an official includes upcoming agendas. An official's panel now lists, under Will hear in committee, your tracked bills on an upcoming agenda of a committee they sit on, as well as those the committee holds now. Their lists count only your open tracked items, so a bill you've moved to a closed status such as Done leaves them. See Officials, committees and hearings.
• Your tracking for your own AI. The MCP server reads your tracked items too: an assistant like Claude can answer "which high-priority bills we oppose have hearings next week?" from your positions, priorities, statuses, owners, tags and custom fields, exactly as the member who created the API key sees them on Tracked items, and follow any item into its bill. It runs your Tracked items saved views, and a bill search can keep only the bills you track, each with your positions on it. A client member's key reads only their client's work and what's shown to clients, once MCP is granted on their permissions. Notes and their files are never included. See The MCP server.
• Two MCP tools for every kind of record. The MCP server now searches and reads bills, officials, committees and calendar events through two tools, search_records and get_record, beside five analysis tools: whip counts, model legislation, a legislator's votes, side-by-side comparisons and a governor's signing history. An assistant picks a kind and that kind's filters, runs your saved bill, legislator and calendar views the same way, and follows any result's id into the full record. A governor's or the President's record comes back as their signing record, not an empty legislator profile. The per-kind tools such as search_bills and get_bill are gone; point any saved prompt at the new two. See The MCP server.
• Your team's tracking in webhooks. A webhook can now send Our position on a bill changes, A tracked bill gets a new owner and A note is added to a tracked bill, a minute or so after the change, to your endpoint, Slack or Teams, or counted in the digest. It sends only what its owner can see: never a note's text, a file or a custom field, and never a client walled off from them. Every bill event now carries the bill's tracking too, in the same shape as /v1/tracked-items, and a Tracked items view can be a webhook's scope. See Our tracking.
• Ask the assistant about your tracking, and about access. Ask What's our position on SB 12? or Which bills do we oppose?, and the assistant answers from your tracked bills, only as you can see them. It reads notes only when you ask about them. Ask Why can't I export tracked items?, and it gives the same reason as the permission grid, the smallest change that would allow it, and who can make it. See The assistant.
• Scorecards from your tracked bills. New scorecard can start From a client's tracked bills (or From our tracked bills). Every bill you track for that client comes in with its position, "if amended" positions as their side or for you to decide, in the session holding most of them. A client's scorecard belongs to it, is listed on the client's page, and is only for people who can see that client. See Start from a client's tracked bills.
• Carry forward. When a bill dies and comes back next session, carry its tracking forward from the tracked item's panel. Pick a bill that Bills like suggests, or find one. The new item gets the position, priority, owner, tags, custom fields and audience, and links back to the old item's notes. See Carry forward.
• Removing a member revokes their API keys. When someone is removed from your organization, or leaves it, every API key they created there stops working at once, and each revocation is in the audit log. Keys are no longer handed to an Owner, because a key acts as the person who created it; their widgets, webhooks and reports are still handed on or paused, as you choose. See Managing members.
• Your tracked items in the API. GET /v1/tracked-items lists your organization's tracked bills as the key's creator sees them on Tracked items: the same filters and order, with each item's position, priority, status, owner, watchers, tags and custom fields. A key reaches only what its creator can see, checked on every call, and a client member's key only their client's work. Custom fields made inactive are still readable there, marked inactive. See API quickstart.
• Change tracked items from your own tools. A new API key permission, Change tracked items, lets a key track bills (POST /v1/tracked-items) and change their position, priority, status, owner, tags and custom fields (PATCH /v1/tracked-items/{id}). Each change is checked as if you made it in the app, lands in the bill's activity, runs your automation rules, and is in the audit log under the key's name. Only someone who can change tracked items can give a key this. See Creating an API key.
• Tracking in bill search, and a REST API button on Tracked items. Each bill from /v1/bill-search now lists your organization's tracked items for it, with position, priority, status, owner and tags, and tracked=true keeps only the bills you track. Tracked items saved views run from the API by name, and REST API on Tracked items shows the request for what you're looking at. See API quickstart.
• The Outcomes report. A sixth report template counts how your positions fared over a session, a calendar year or chosen dates. It uses the position you held when each outcome happened, so changing it later never rewrites a result. It shows the outcome rate weighted by priority, and the rate counting opposed bills that died without a vote as wins, beside the previous period. It also shows money at stake from a money custom field you choose, the meetings, tasks and notes behind each result, and what's still pending. Late positions are listed on their own, and an "if amended" bill without Our ask recorded is never guessed. See Outcomes.
• Who can make a position public. Only the person who first set a bill's position, or an Owner or Admin, can turn Public position on. If anyone else changes a public position, it turns private until one of them publishes it again, so a changed stance never reaches your widgets or report links without them. See The tracked item panel.
• Our positions on your website. A bill list widget can now show an Our position column, and can be narrowed to the bills where your organization supports, opposes or holds another position: a "Bills we're watching" page that keeps itself current. Only positions marked Public position on your own work appear, read with the widget owner's access, and a position made private leaves the widget within 5 minutes. See Our position.
• Automation rules that start from a custom field. A status or task rule under Workflow › Automation can now start when one of your custom fields changes: a choice set to a value, a yes/no turning yes or no, or a number or money field reaching an amount or dropping below it, so “Jobs affected” reaches 500 → status to “Engaged” moves a bill when someone enters the number. It runs once per real change, from the tracked item panel, Update or its Undo, and a rule never changes a custom field, so rules can't chain. A status you set in the same save stands. Undo after Update now also runs the task rules for a status it puts back. While a field is inactive its rules are paused, and a field a rule uses can't be deleted. See Automation rules.
• Files on notes. Attach the testimony draft, the one-pager, the fiscal analysis or a photo of the handout to a note: on a tracked bill, an official, a committee or a hearing, or right after Log a meeting on your phone. PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, text, CSV and JPEG, PNG or HEIC images, up to 25 MB each and 10 to a note. Every file is checked for malware before anyone can open it (Scanning…, usually under a minute); one that fails is removed, and you're told. A file opens only for the people who can read its note, through a link made for them that lasts two minutes, and it narrows when the note does. A note marked for reports carries its text into reports, never its files. Storage is 5 GB on State and Developer, 50 GB on Pro and 250 GB on Scale. See Attaching files.
• Moved since your last visit. Client members now see which of their client's items changed since they last opened them, counting only changes they can see: notes For the client, the position, fields you show to clients, and the bill's own stage, votes and hearings. Their Updated date is back, and counts only those changes too. See Unread changes.
• Triage for a client. With clients on, a triage source, or Track N… on Legislation, can send bills to an Inbox for one client: they arrive for that client, are tracked for it from the Inbox, and only reach people who can see that client. See Triage sources.
• Notes for a client on officials, committees and hearings. With clients on, a note on an official, committee or hearing can be For a client and kept to the client's name and our team. That client's client members can read those notes and write their own, marked from the client, and they never see the team's notes, your own work's or another client's. See Notes for a client.
• Automation rules for one client. With clients on, each rule under Workflow › Automation is now For every tracked bill, as before, or one client: Bill signed → Implementation can apply to one client's bills while another keeps its own process. A client's rule previews, applies and changes that client's tracked bills only. See Automation rules.
• Tasks by client. The Tasks page's Client filter now names each client, keeps Our own work for tracked bills with no client, and puts tasks on officials, committees and hearings under No client. See Tasks.
• Choosing the new account manager. Removing a member who manages clients, or leaving an organization where you do, now asks who becomes each client's new account manager. See Managing members.
• Custom fields in reports. A report's Columns now list your organization's custom fields, so a board briefing can show Fiscal impact in dollars or a client update the Program each bill affects. A report keeps the field, not a copy, so each run shows the values as they are. A report for a client shows only the fields marked Show to clients. If a field is made inactive or deleted, its column leaves every report, links already sent included, and each report's owner is told; reactivate it and the column comes back where it was. See Custom field columns.
• Custom fields. Add your organization's own fields to every tracked bill under Workflow › Custom fields on the Organization page: text, number, money, date, yes/no, or a choice from a list, such as Fiscal impact, Program affected or Testimony due (5 on State and Developer, 20 on Pro and Scale). Set them in a tracked item's panel, after Tags, or on several bills at once with Update. On Tracked items each field is a column that sorts as what it is (amounts by size, dates by date), a filter under Custom fields, a line on each card and a column in Export CSV, and saved views keep them. Each change is kept in the bill's activity by the field's name and is unread for its owner and watchers. A field's type is fixed once a bill holds a value for it, and a field that bills hold values for can't be deleted: make it inactive (it leaves every page and the CSV export, its values and history kept, until you reactivate it), or clear its values first. With clients on, each field has its own Show to clients switch, off until you turn it on. See Custom fields.
• Reports for a client. With clients on, choose who a new report is For: your own work, or one client. A client's report holds only that client's tracked bills, shows what the client is shown (its own positions, public or not, the next event, and status and tags when you show them to clients), names the client on its cover with its logo on Scale, and can go to the client's own client members on a schedule. Another client's people are never offered or sent it. See Reports for a client.
• Scheduled reports. Open a report and, under Delivery, send it weekly, every two weeks or monthly, on the day and hour you choose in your organization's time zone. Each email carries What changed since the last report in its body, and the full report as a link, a PDF or a Word file. Choose Skip that run and a week with nothing to report sends nothing. Recipients are checked again every time it goes out, so someone who has left, moved or lost access gets nothing, and a member who can't see some bills gets a copy without them. Every email ends with a one-click Unsubscribe from this report. See Scheduled reports.
• Clients. Track bills for the clients you work for. Turn clients on in Organization › Clients (Pro and Scale) and call them Clients, Members, Chapters or Accounts. Tracking › Clients lists them, with search, filters, cards or a table, Export CSV and New; each client has an account manager, a group and a pane with its details, People and its tracked items. Add team members to a client's account team, invite its client members on free Basic licenses, and wall a client off by sharing its new work with its group only. Client members see only their own client's work: positions, notes For the client and what you choose to show them. Archiving hides a client's work and pauses its people; a deleted client can be restored by an Owner for 30 days. See Clients.
• Tracking for clients, and conflicts. With clients turned on, track a bill for your own work and for each client separately, each with its own position, status, owner, notes and tasks: Track asks who it's for, and says who will see it. A tracked item's panel has a tab for each client tracking the bill, and a (not tracked) tab to start one. When one client supports a bill another opposes, both items carry a ⚑ conflict mark and the panel says so; CapitolMath flags, it never blocks. On Tracked items, filter by client and by Contains: Conflicts, see each card's client, sort the table by it, and see positions and statuses by client on the dashboard. See The tracked item panel and Tracked items.
• Your bills on the calendar. The Calendar's Agenda filter now offers Our tracked bills, and each meeting says how many of your bills are on it. Open a hearing and each bill you track shows your position, priority and status, with the tasks due on that hearing below. See Officials, committees and hearings.
• Log a meeting from your phone. Right after a meeting, open the official or committee and choose Log a meeting (or Tracking › Log a meeting from the menu on your phone): who, when, the bills discussed and what was said, in one short form. It's saved on your phone as you type, and if there's no signal it's sent as soon as you're back online. See Logging a meeting.
• Notes and tasks on officials, committees and hearings. Open a legislator, governor, committee or hearing and you'll find Our work: the bills you track that it touches (an official's sponsored bills, those in their committees and those waiting on them; a committee's bills and upcoming hearings), tasks, and notes. Each note is kept to the whole team, a group or only you, and links the bills discussed, so it shows on each of those bills too. A hearing shows what you know about its committee. See Officials, committees and hearings.
• Automation rules. On Pro and Scale, let the public record move your work. Under Workflow › Automation on the Organization page, a status rule sets a tracked bill's status when its bill is signed, vetoed, fails or dies, passes its first chamber, goes to the governor or is set for a committee hearing; a task rule cancels or completes its open tasks when its status changes or its bill is signed, vetoed or fails. Start from the suggested rules (Bill signed → Implementation, Vetoed → Done, Fails or dies → Done, and canceling open tasks when a bill is Done or dies). Every rule is off until you turn it on and applies from then on; its preview names the tracked bills that already match, with Apply to these now. Each change shows in the bill's activity as Workflow rule, is unread for its owner and watchers, is told to the owner and the tasks' assignees with Undo for 7 days, and is in the audit log. With a rule on for an outcome, owners are no longer asked Move to Implementation? for it. See Automation rules.
• Getting started with tracking. A new first article in Help's Tracking book walks through a bill's life in tracking: it arrives in an Inbox, someone decides, you work it, keep up with it and report on it. Each step links to the article with the detail, and Tasks, Reports and My work now have pictures. See Getting started with tracking.
• Tracking on the plans. The plan comparison on Pricing and in Help now shows what each plan includes for tracking: tracked bills, triage sources, and reports as PDF, Word and link. See Plans.
• Your tracking in the Legislation CSV. Export CSV on Legislation now ends with whether your organization tracks each bill and, if it does, its position, priority, status, owner and tags: what the Ours line shows you. The Tracked items export gains each item's watchers and the Updated date. See Ways to take data out.
• A complete organization export. Export and close now includes scorecards with their methodologies, the logo, single sign-on's state, verified domains, assistant conversations, dataset purchases and the widget and webhook history from before the audit log. Your own support requests are included in your download, and no one else's. See About your organization.
• Reports as PDF and Word. Open a report and choose PDF or Word to download it as it is now. The PDF is printed from the same page as the report's link and is accessible: tagged headings and table headers, an outline, alternative text, and its title and language. The Word file has real headings and tables, ready to edit into a board memo. Like a link, a file holds only positions marked public and notes marked for reports. Each one is in the report's run history for 13 months, to download again. See Reports.
• Tasks. Give a colleague a dated to-do on a tracked bill: + Add task on its Tasks card, New on the new Tracking › Tasks page (pick several bills for one task each, assigned to you, a colleague or each bill's owner), or Add a task from this note. A task can be due a few days before a hearing and moves when the hearing does; on My work's upcoming hearings, Add a task for each tracked bill does it for every one of ours on the agenda. Tasks turn Overdue at midnight in your organization's time zone. The Tasks page has filters (Assignee and Creator combine), cards or a table, Mark complete and Update on several at once, Export CSV and a dashboard; Tasks on My work lists yours. Assignees are told, and their due and overdue mornings come to the bell. Removing a member now asks who takes their open tasks. See Tasks.
• Exporting reports is its own permission. Export to CSV on Reports joins each member's permissions; anyone who can export tracked items can export the Reports list unless an Owner or Admin changes it. On a report shared with you that holds bills you can't see, Copy link now says so before you try. See Reports.
• Reports. Under Tracking › Reports, turn a saved view into something to hand someone. Start from a template — Client update, Board briefing, Session wrap-up, Pending in committee or By sponsor — and choose its sections and their order, how its bills are grouped and sorted, its columns, and which kinds of change What changed lists; the preview changes as you do. What changed covers everything since the report was last sent: bills added, stage changes, votes, hearings, outcomes, effective dates and your position changes. Copy link sends a read-only page that opens without an account, shows only positions marked public and notes marked for reports, and expires after 7, 30 or 90 days; revoke any link from the report's run history. Save as our template keeps a report's shape for your organization. Outside recipients wait for an Owner or Admin to approve them, under Reports on the Organization page. See Reports.
• Sending a dismissed bill again. Choosing Track N… on Legislation now brings back a bill someone dismissed, marked "Sent again by" you in the recipient's Inbox. A bill that several triage sources match goes to the first one's recipient, and turning a source on with today's matches sends the 1,000 most recently active, saying how many were left out. See Triage sources.
• The weekly My work email. Turn it on under My profile › Notifications to get, each Monday morning in your time zone, how many bills wait in your Inbox, the bills you own or watch with what changed on each that week, and who mentioned you. It's off until you turn it on, it adds to your other notifications rather than replacing them, and every one has a one-click unsubscribe. See Notifications.
• My work. The new first page under Tracking is your own queue. Your Inbox lists the bills waiting for you to decide on: track one (or several) from the Track item panel, assign it to a colleague, or dismiss it with an optional reason. Sort any column, search, and act on several at once. My bills lists the bills you own or watch, including bills you watch that nobody tracks, with what changed on each since you last opened it, and asks on bills you own whether a signed or dead bill should move to Implementation or Done. Below them: bills you're waiting on others to act on, notes that mention you, and the next three weeks' hearings on your bills. The count beside Tracking in the menu is how many bills wait in your Inbox. See My work and the Inbox.
• Triage sources: new bills sent for review. Open a Legislation saved view's Edit saved view, now wider and more compact, and under Tracking choose whose Inbox its new matches go to: a team member with a Full license, or a group. After each state's update, a bill that newly matches arrives once, whichever sources it matches, and never once your organization tracks it. Turning a source on asks whether today's matches should arrive too. With Allow triage off, every bill must be tracked rather than dismissed. To send bills by hand, select them on Legislation and choose Track N…. Every source, with its dismissed bills and Undo, is on the Organization page under Triage sources. See Triage sources.
• Notes and mentions on tracked bills. Open a tracked item and write notes under Notes: paragraphs, lists, links and bold, up to 20,000 characters, seen by everyone who can see the item. Type @ to mention a colleague who can see it; they're told in the app and by email, and the item shows a Mention chip until they open it. Mark a note For reports to let it appear in reports and their links. The author edits a note and every earlier version is kept; the author and the item's owner can delete it, and the author is told when someone else does either. Tick Search our notes too on Tracked items to search the notes you can read. Notes and Mentions of me join Unread activity. See Notes and mentions.
• Tracking on Legislation. Signed in, the Tracked filter finds the bills your organization tracks (or doesn't), and saves with your views. Each tracked bill's card and table row carries an Ours line with your position, opening the tracked item. In a bill's panel, the Tracking list after the summary shows who owns it and where it stands, with + Track to start tracking it (choose its position, priority, status, owner and tags, or leave them to their defaults) and × to stop. See Reading a bill and Bill facets.
• Unread changes on the bills you own or watch. Tracked items now shows what changed since you last opened each item you own or watch: the count says how many are unread, a card's bell is filled when someone else changed it, and in the table unread rows are in bold with a chip for each kind of change (Stage, Vote, Hearing, or the field someone changed). Select the bell or a chip for What changed: each change with what it was and is now, who made it and when. Unread activity on the left lists items by the kind of change, and saves with your views; the new Updated column sorts by the latest change. Opening an item marks it read; mark selected items read or unread from the selection bar. Your own changes never count, and what you've read is yours alone. The dashboard's twelve-week status chart now reads a weekly record of each item's status. See Unread changes.
• Tracked items, under a new Tracking menu. The Tracking menu now leads the header, with Tracked items — your organization's working list of the bills it tracks, with your position, priority, status, owner, watchers and tags on each — and Scorecards, moved from Explore and renamed from Legislator Scorecard (its address is the same). Filter by status (open ones to start), owner or watcher, position, tags, the bill's own attributes, or bills whose stage moved this week; save views that work for whoever opens them ("My open items"); switch between cards, a table and a dashboard whose charts list exactly what they count; and update several items at once, with each change checked first and Undo after. Each item opens in a panel with its activity beside the public record. See Tracked items and The tracked item panel.
• Notifications, in the app and in Slack or Teams. A bell at the top of every page shows your unread notifications; select one to open what it's about, or mark them all as read. On My profile, Notifications is now a grid: for stage changes and hearings on the bills you own or watch, choose in the app, by email, or in Slack or Teams. Stage changes still come by email to begin with, hearings are still off until you turn them on, and the choices you'd made carry over. To get notifications in your own Slack or Teams channel, create an incoming webhook for yourself and add it on My profile: no Webhooks permission needed. Every notification email now has a one-click unsubscribe. See Notifications and Notifications in Slack or Teams.
• Pay yearly, add Full licenses to Pro, and pay by invoice. Every paid plan can now be billed yearly, at twelve times the monthly price. Pro can add Full licenses one at a time as a team grows, instead of moving up a plan. Pro and Scale paid yearly can be paid by invoice and purchase order, as agencies, universities and associations often need. See Plans and billing.
• Request an invoice, with your purchase order on it. Choose Request an invoice on Pro or Scale billed yearly, name your billing contact and add your purchase order number. CapitolMath approves invoice billing, typically within one business day; then the plan starts and the invoice goes straight to your billing contact, purchase order number printed on it, ready for accounts payable. See Paying yearly by invoice.
• Full and Basic licenses. Editor and Viewer licenses are now called Full and Basic. Nothing else changes: a Full license is still the paid seat that saves, exports and uses the API, and Basic licenses are still free and unlimited. See Roles and licenses.
• Permissions for each member. Each member's form on the Organization page now shows what they can see and do: a grid of permissions, per row and action, starting at the defaults for their role and license. Owners and Admins turn individual permissions on or off, copy them from another member, or reset them; locked ones say why. Only an Owner changes an Admin's, and nobody changes their own. A change applies on the member's next request, API keys included. The "Member" role is now called Team member, and sharing with everyone is now sharing with the whole team. Owners always hold a Full license. REST Docs and Help are display settings: they show or hide those links in a member's menus, and the pages stay public. See Roles and licenses.
• Watch replaces Favorites. Follow a bill with Watch in its panel, where the star was; it reads Watching while you do. Every bill that was in your Favorites is now a bill you watch, and Bills I watch takes Favorites' place in Saved views, on the calendar, in Bills like and in the scorecard wizard. The two notification settings now read Stage changes on bills I own or watch and Upcoming hearings on bills I own or watch, and each bill comes once however you follow it. Your watches are also at /v1/watches in the API. See Watching a bill.
• The Organization page, in five groups. Company information, Workflow, Activity, Billing and Other, with an On this page sidebar to jump between them. Set your organization's own words for tracked bills under Workflow: rename position labels or turn positions off, turn priority on or off, set the stages of your process, and rename, recolor, merge or delete tags, each change saying how many tracked bills it touches first. Team members can now see the page too, read-only unless they've been given a section's permission, and each section you can't change says why. Requests by user shows which keys are spending the API pool, AI assistant usage shows each person's share of the month's answers, and the audit log takes the old Activity panel's place. See Workflow settings and About your organization.
• Invitations last 14 days. An invitation now stays open for 14 days instead of seven, and sending it again starts a new 14 days. Invitations already sent keep the expiry they were sent with. See Inviting members.
• Photos and time zones. Add your photo on My profile, in all your organizations or only one; Owners and Admins can set members' photos too. Set your time zone there, and your organization's on the Organization page. See Your photo and time zone.

Week of October 26, 2026#

• Vermont's laws, with when they take effect. Every Vermont law since 2023 now shows its effective date. Vermont doesn't publish effective dates, so each date comes from the act itself: most take effect on July 1 or "on passage", the day the governor signs. A law that says nothing takes effect on July 1 after it becomes law. An act that dates each of its sections shows its first section's date, with the others beside it. Vermont's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• West Virginia's laws, with when they take effect. Every West Virginia law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The Legislature publishes each law's effective date, and that date is shown. A law takes effect 90 days after it passes unless two-thirds of each house votes otherwise: from passage, the day the Legislature passed it, or a date of its own. Each enrolled bill says which in its first lines. West Virginia's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Utah's laws, with when they take effect. Every Utah law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The Legislature publishes each passed bill's effective date, and that date is shown. Otherwise a law takes effect 60 days after the session that passed it adjourns (May 7, 2025; May 6, 2026), or, if two-thirds of all the members elected to each house approved it, when the governor signs it. A concurrent resolution states the Legislature's view and has no effective date, and a law that depends on a constitutional amendment follows the voters. Utah's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Texas's laws, with when they take effect. Every Texas law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The Legislature publishes each law's effective date in its history, and that date is shown; most take effect September 1, or at once where two-thirds of each house voted for immediate effect. Otherwise a law takes effect on the 91st day after the session that passed it ends. A law that depends on a constitutional amendment follows the voters. Texas's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Missouri's laws, with when they take effect. Every Missouri law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The House publishes most laws' effective dates, and that date is shown. Otherwise a regular session's law takes effect August 28, 90 days after the session's constitutional end on May 30, and an extraordinary session's 90 days after it ends. An appropriation act takes effect when it becomes law, but not before July 1, when the fiscal year it funds begins. Missouri's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Wisconsin's laws, with when they take effect. Every Wisconsin law since 2023 now shows its effective date. An Act takes effect the day after it's published, usually two days after the governor signs it, unless it names another date; no law is in force before it's published. Wisconsin's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Wyoming's laws, with when they take effect. Every Wyoming law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The Legislative Service Office publishes each law's effective date, and that date is shown; nearly every act names its own, often July 1. A memorial takes effect when the governor approves it. Wyoming's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Virginia's laws, with when they take effect. Every Virginia law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The Legislative Information System publishes most laws' effective dates, and that date is shown. Otherwise a regular session's law takes effect July 1 after the session ends, a special session's on the first day of the fourth month after it ends, and an emergency law, passed by four-fifths of each house, or the budget, the day it becomes law. Virginia's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Washington's laws, with when they take effect. Every Washington law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The Legislature publishes each law's effective date, and that date is shown: most take effect on the 91st day after the year's session ends, unless the law names its own date or is necessary for the public peace, health or safety, or the support of state government, which takes effect at once. Washington's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• New Hampshire's laws, with when they take effect. Every New Hampshire law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The General Court publishes most laws' effective dates on their dockets, and that date is shown. Otherwise a law takes effect on the date it names, or 60 days after passage, which is the governor's signature, the day it became law without one, or the override. New Hampshire's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Oklahoma's laws, with when they take effect. Every Oklahoma law since 2023 now shows its effective date. Most name their own date, often November 1. A law with an emergency clause, passed by two-thirds of the members elected, takes effect the day it becomes law; otherwise a law takes effect on the 91st day after the year's session adjourns. Oklahoma's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Tennessee's laws, with when they take effect. Every Tennessee law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The General Assembly publishes each law's effective date on its bill page, and that date is shown; where a page lists a rulemaking date first, the date the law's main provisions take effect is shown, with the other listed beside it. Otherwise a general law takes effect 40 days after it becomes law. A private act that waits on local approval shows that it does. Tennessee's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Rhode Island's laws, with when they take effect. Every Rhode Island law since 2023 now shows its effective date. Most say "upon passage", which counts from the day the law was enacted: signed by the governor, passed over a veto, or not returned in time. A law that names no date takes effect July 1 if it became law by then, otherwise the day it became law. A local act that waits on its voters shows that it does. Rhode Island's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Massachusetts's laws, with when they take effect. Every Massachusetts law since 2023 now shows its effective date. A law the voters could put to a referendum takes effect 90 days after it becomes law, and one they couldn't, such as an appropriation, in 30 days, unless it names its own date or is declared an emergency law. Massachusetts's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Minnesota's laws, with when they take effect. Every Minnesota law since 2023 now shows its effective date. A law takes effect August 1 after its final enactment, or July 1 if it appropriates money, unless it names its own date. Most Minnesota laws date their sections one by one, so the date shown is the one most of the act takes, with the others listed beside it. Minnesota's dates passed the same hand check as the others.

Week of October 19, 2026#

• South Carolina's laws, with when they take effect. Every South Carolina law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The General Assembly's ratifications log publishes each law's effective date, and that date is shown. Otherwise a law takes effect on the date it names (most say "upon approval by the Governor"), or the 20th day after it becomes law, whether by the governor's signature, an override, or the governor's time running out. South Carolina's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• South Dakota's laws, with when they take effect. Every South Dakota law since 2023 now shows its effective date. A regular session's law takes effect July 1 after it passes, a special session's on the 91st day after the session ends, and an emergency law, passed by two-thirds of the members elected, the day it becomes law. A law referred to the voters takes effect only if they approve it, so 2024 SB 201, rejected as Referred Law 21, shows that it never took effect. South Dakota's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Michigan's laws, with when they take effect. Every Michigan law since 2023 now shows its effective date. A Michigan law becomes law when it's filed with the Secretary of State. An act given immediate effect, by two-thirds of each house, takes effect on filing, or on a later date it names; any other act on the 91st day after that year's session ends, never sooner, or on a later date it names. An act tied to another bill takes effect no earlier than the day that bill became law. Michigan's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• North Carolina's laws, with when they take effect. Every North Carolina law since 2023 now shows its effective date. Nearly every session law names its own date, and the date shown is the act's own rather than a single section's. A law that names none takes effect 60 days after the session adjourns. North Carolina's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Oregon's laws, with when they take effect. Every Oregon law since 2023 now shows its effective date. Oregon Laws publishes each law's effective date, and that date is shown. Otherwise a law takes effect January 1 after it becomes law, never before the 91st day after its session ends; an act with an emergency clause takes effect the day it becomes law, and an act referred to the voters waits on them. Oregon's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Nebraska's laws, with when they take effect. Every Nebraska law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The Revisor of Statutes publishes each law's operative date, and that date is shown. Otherwise a law takes effect the day after three calendar months from the end of the session that passed it; an emergency act, passed by two-thirds, the day after the governor approves it. Nebraska's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• New Jersey's laws, with when they take effect. Every New Jersey law since the 2022–23 session now shows its effective date. The Legislature publishes each law's effective date, and that date is shown. Otherwise it comes from the act's own clause ("This act shall take effect immediately", "on the first day of the fourth month next following enactment"); an act silent on it takes effect July 4 after it becomes law, as New Jersey law provides. New Jersey's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• New Mexico's laws, with when they take effect. Every New Mexico law since 2023 now shows its effective date. A law takes effect 90 days after the session adjourns, unless it names its own date; an act with an emergency clause, and the general appropriation act, take effect when the governor approves them. New Mexico's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• North Dakota's laws, with when they take effect. Every North Dakota law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The Legislative Council publishes each law's effective date, and that date is shown. Otherwise a law takes effect August 1 after it's filed with the Secretary of State; an appropriation for state agencies or a tax or fee measure, July 1; an emergency measure on filing; and a special session's law only on a date it names. North Dakota's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Maine's laws, with when they take effect. Every Maine law since 2023 now shows its effective date. A Maine law takes effect 90 days after the sitting that passed it recesses, unless it names its own date; an emergency law takes effect when it's approved. A bill the governor holds becomes law at the Legislature's next sitting and takes that sitting's date, as the Revisor of Statutes gives it. A part that takes effect on another date is listed beside the main one. Maine's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Maryland's laws, with when they take effect. Every Maryland law since 2023 now shows its effective date. Most Maryland acts name their own date; an act that doesn't takes effect June 1 after the session, never sooner than 31 days after passage. An emergency act takes effect when it's enacted, and a law passed over a veto or without signature 30 days after it takes force, or on its own later date. A constitutional amendment, or a law that waits on one, is left undated until the voters decide. Maryland's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Mississippi's laws, with when they take effect. Every Mississippi law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The Legislature publishes most laws' effective dates, and that date is shown; otherwise it comes from the act's own clause ("from and after July 1, 2025", or "from and after its passage", which counts from approval). Mississippi's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Montana's laws, with when they take effect. Every Montana law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The Legislature publishes nearly every law's effective date, and that date is shown. Otherwise a law takes effect October 1 after passage and approval, an appropriation July 1, and a special session's law on passage and approval. Montana's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Nevada's laws, with when they take effect. Every Nevada law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The Legislature publishes most laws' effective dates, and that date is shown. Otherwise a law takes effect October 1 after passage, special sessions included; where a law names one date for adopting regulations and another "for all other purposes", the second is shown. Nevada's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Louisiana's laws, with when they take effect. Every Louisiana law since 2023 now shows its effective date. The Legislature writes most laws' effective dates on their bill pages, and that date is shown; where a law's own text dates the whole act differently, the act's date is shown, as Louisiana's constitution provides. Otherwise a regular session's law takes effect August 1, and an extraordinary session's on the 60th day after the session adjourns. A law that takes effect on the governor's signature takes the day it was signed, or the day it became law without one. A part that takes effect on another date is listed beside the main one. Louisiana's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Louisiana's full record. Every Louisiana bill, resolution, concurrent resolution and study request since 2023, in the regular sessions and the five extraordinary sessions, now carries its whole history: prefiling and introduction, referral, each committee's report, the readings, every floor vote, concurrence and conference committees, enrolling, and the governor's signature or veto with the Act number. Every floor roll call is there with each member's vote, amendments' and motions' roll calls included, and the House's committee roll calls from 2023 to 2025. Each printing, from original to enrolled and the Act, is there to read and compare, with struck language left out. Committee meetings with the measures on their agendas, and each chamber's floor days, are on the calendar.
• Alaska's, Arkansas's, Connecticut's and Kentucky's laws, with when they take effect. Every law of these four states' 2025 and 2026 sessions now shows its effective date, and Alaska's 2023–24 laws too. Alaska publishes many laws' dates, and that date is shown; otherwise a law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law, counted from the day after the governor signs it, and a law without signature counts from the end of the governor's time to act. Arkansas's laws take effect the day after the deadline for a referendum petition, unless an emergency clause or the law names another date. Connecticut dates each section of a public act in its heading, and the date shown is the one most sections share ("from passage" is the governor's signature); a special act takes effect on approval. Kentucky's laws take effect 90 full days after the session adjourns, unless an emergency clause or the law names another date, and the branch budgets on becoming law. A part that takes effect on another date is listed beside the main one. All four passed the same hand check as the others.
• Arizona's laws, with when they take effect. Every Arizona law of the 2025 and 2026 sessions now shows its effective date. Most take effect on the general effective date, the 91st day after the session ends (September 26, 2025; September 12, 2026). An emergency measure or a tax measure passed by two-thirds takes effect on the governor's signature, as do the general appropriations act, the capital outlay bill and supplemental appropriations. A law that names a later date takes it, and one that names an earlier date without being an emergency measure still waits for the general effective date, as Arizona law provides. A part that takes effect on another date is listed beside the main one. Arizona's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Alabama's laws, with when they take effect. Every Alabama law of the 2025 and 2026 sessions now shows its effective date. The Legislature publishes most laws' effective dates, and that date is shown; otherwise it comes from the law's own text, which nearly always names one. A law whose text names none takes effect when it becomes law, except a penal act, which waits 60 days after approval, so a silent act whose kind isn't recorded is left undated and says why. A part that takes effect on another date is listed beside the main one. Alabama's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Indiana's laws, with when they take effect. Every Indiana law of the 2025 and 2026 sessions now shows its effective date. Indiana dates each section of an act in its own heading, so the date shown is the one most of the act's sections take effect on, and a part that takes effect on another date is listed beside it. A section that names no date takes effect July 1 after the act became law, as Indiana law provides. Indiana's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Kansas's laws, with when they take effect. Every Kansas law of the 2025–26 Legislature now shows its effective date. Kansas's Secretary of State publishes each law's effective date, and that date is shown: a law takes effect on its publication, in the statute book on July 1 or in the Kansas Register on the day it appears there, unless it names a later date. Where the published date is the law's July 1 publication but its own text names a later date, the text's date is shown, as Kansas law provides. A part that takes effect on another date is listed beside the main one. Kansas's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Kentucky's full record. Every Kentucky bill, joint resolution, concurrent resolution and resolution of the 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 regular sessions, proposed constitutional amendments included, now carries its whole history: introduction, referral, each committee's report, the readings, every floor vote, concurrence and conference committee reports, the governor's signature or veto, each override, and delivery to the Secretary of State with the Acts chapter. Every floor roll call is there with each member's vote, amendments' and motions' roll calls included. Each printing, as introduced, each committee substitute, and enrolled, is there to read and compare, with struck language left out. Committee meetings with the measures on their agendas, the interim joint committees, statutory committees and task forces included, and each chamber's legislative days are on the calendar.
• Kansas's full record. Every Kansas bill, resolution and concurrent resolution of the 2023–24 and 2025–26 Legislatures, constitutional amendments included, now carries its whole history: introduction and referral, hearings, committee reports, the Committee of the Whole, every final action, conference committee reports, the governor's approval or veto, and each override, line-item vetoes included. Every floor roll call is there with each member's vote. Each printing, as introduced, as amended in committee and on the floor, and enrolled, is there to read and compare, with struck language left out. Hearings with the bills heard, every committee meeting the minutes record, and each chamber's session days are on the calendar.
• Indiana's full record. Every Indiana bill, resolution, joint resolution and concurrent resolution of the 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 sessions now carries its whole history: authors and sponsors, readings, assignment to committee, each committee's report and vote, amendments, every floor vote, concurrence and conference committee reports, the presiding officers' signatures, and the governor's signature or veto with the Public Law number. Every floor roll call is there with each member's vote, and every committee roll call too, read from each committee's vote sheet. Each printing, introduced, as amended in committee and on the floor, and enrolled, is there to read and compare, with struck language left out. Committee meetings with their agendas, the interim committees' included, and each chamber's session days with the bills on its calendar, are on the calendar.
• Illinois's and Iowa's laws, with when they take effect. Every Illinois and Iowa law of the 2025–26 session now shows its effective date. Illinois publishes one for most laws, and that date is shown; where it doesn't, the law's own text is read for its date, and a law whose text names none takes effect as Illinois's Effective Date of Laws Act provides: January 1 after passage, or June 1 of the next year for a bill passed after May 31. Iowa publishes none, so each law's own text is read, and a law whose text is silent takes effect on July 1 after passage, or 45 days after signing if the governor signs it on or after July 1, as Iowa Code §3.7 provides. In both states a part that takes effect on another date is listed beside the main one. Each state's dates passed the same hand check as the others.
• Iowa's full record. Every Iowa bill, resolution, joint resolution and concurrent resolution of the 90th and 91st General Assemblies now carries its whole history: introduction, referral, subcommittee assignments and meetings, each committee's report and vote, amendments, every floor vote, messages between the chambers, and the governor's signature or veto. A bill that ends under its own number, replaced by a committee bill, attached to another or withdrawn, is shown as ended. Every floor roll call is there with each member's vote, read from the House and Senate journals, and committee votes with each member's vote wherever the journals print them. Each printing, as introduced, reprinted and enrolled, is there to read and compare, with struck language left out. Committee and subcommittee meetings with their agendas, and each chamber's session days, are on the calendar.
• Illinois's full record. Every Illinois bill, resolution and joint resolution of the 103rd and 104th General Assemblies, constitutional amendments included, now carries its whole history: filing, readings, assignment to committee, each committee's report with its tally, amendments, every floor vote, concurrence, and the governor's signature, veto or amendatory veto with the Public Act number and the date the law takes effect, as Illinois publishes it. Every floor roll call is there with each member's vote, and committee roll calls with each member's vote wherever Illinois publishes them, every one for 2025–26. Each printing, from introduced to enrolled, is there to read and compare, with struck language left out. Committee hearings with their agendas, and each chamber's session days, are on the calendar.
• Colorado's and Hawaii's laws, with when they take effect. Every Colorado and Hawaii law of the 2025–26 session now shows its effective date. Colorado publishes one for each law, and that date is shown. Hawaii publishes none, so each law's own text is read for its date, and a law whose text names none takes effect on becoming law, as Hawaii's constitution provides. In both states a part that takes effect on another date is listed beside the main one. Each state's dates passed the same hand check as the others, with no wrong date in a sample of 60.
• Idaho's laws, with when they take effect. Every Idaho law of the 2025 and 2026 sessions now shows its effective date. Idaho publishes one for each law, and that date is shown. Where it publishes only the dates of separate sections (an appropriation's emergency clause, and July 1 for the rest), each law's own text is read for its date, and the rest takes effect as Idaho Code §67-510 provides: July 1, or 60 days after the session adjourns if that is later. Idaho's dates passed the same hand check as the others.

Week of October 12, 2026#

• Effective dates in the API, the MCP server and the datasets. Bills from /v1/bill-search now carry effective, with their next and last effective dates and how the main provisions' date was worked out, and /v1/bill-detail returns every provision's date with its basis: the published date, the clause it quotes or the rule's steps. Search for laws taking effect with takes-effect-window (the last or next 30 or 90 days, the last 365, this year) or your own range with takes-effect-from and takes-effect-to, and by basis with effective-status. The MCP server's search_bills and get_bill do the same, so an assistant can answer "which new laws take effect on January 1?". The request shown for a filtered bill list now includes both filters. A new Effective dates bulk dataset has every date as a row, in CSV and Parquet, with the quoted clause or the rule and its steps, joining to Bills by location, session and bill number. See Effective dates.
• Alabama's full record. Every Alabama bill since 2023, in the regular sessions and the three special sessions, now carries its whole history: referrals, committee substitutes, every floor roll call with each member's vote (budget isolation resolutions as their own votes), concurrence, enrollment, and the governor's signature, dated the day it was given, or the day a bill became law without one. Each printed version of a bill is there to read and compare, with struck language left out as it would leave the law. Committee meetings with their agendas, and each chamber's floor days, are on the calendar.
• Alaska's full record. Every Alaska bill and resolution of the 33rd and 34th Legislatures now carries its whole history: referrals, hearings, committee reports with each member's recommendation, every roll call from the journals with each member's vote (amendments, passage, concurrence, and veto overrides in joint session), and the governor's signature or veto, dated the day it was given. Each printed version is there to read and compare, without the deleted law Alaska prints in brackets. Committee meetings with their agendas, and each chamber's floor sessions, are on the calendar.
• Arizona's full record. Every Arizona bill since 2023 now carries its whole history: readings, each committee's referral and report with its roll call (reconsiderations included), Committee of the Whole, third and final readings with each member's vote, and the governor's signature or veto, dated the day it was given. Each printed version is there to read and compare, with struck language left out as it would leave the law. Committee agendas with their bills, and each chamber's floor days, are on the calendar.
• Arkansas's full record. Every Arkansas bill since 2023, in the regular and fiscal sessions and the three extraordinary sessions, now carries its whole history: readings, referrals, committee reports, every floor roll call with each member's vote, concurrence, enrollment, and the governor's signature, dated the day it was given, with the act number. Sponsors from both chambers are told apart from cosponsors. Each printed version is there to read and compare, with struck language left out. Committee meetings with the bills on them, and each chamber's floor sessions, are on the calendar.
• Colorado's full record. Every Colorado bill, resolution and memorial since 2023, in the regular sessions and the 2023, 2024 and 2025 extraordinary sessions, now carries its whole history: introduction and assignment, each committee's hearing with its roll call (amendments included), Committee of the Whole, third reading, concurrence, conference and repassage, and the governor's signature or veto, with the session law. Every floor and committee roll call is there with each member's vote. Each printing, from introduced to the signed act, is there to read and compare. Committee hearings with their agendas, and each chamber's floor days, are on the calendar.
• Connecticut's full record. Every Connecticut bill since 2023, in the regular sessions and the three special sessions, now carries its whole history: referrals to the joint committees, public hearings, each committee's vote with every member's yea, nay or absence, the file copies, amendments, every floor roll call with each member's vote, and the governor's signature or veto, dated the day it was given. Each printed version is there to read and compare, with deleted law left out. Committee meetings and public hearings with the bills on their agendas, and each chamber's sessions, are on the calendar.
• Delaware's full record. Every Delaware bill, substitute and resolution of the 152nd and 153rd General Assemblies now carries its whole history: introduction and assignment, committee reports with how many members signed favorable, on its merits or unfavorable, amendments, every floor roll call with each member's vote (amendments' and overrides' included), and the governor's signature or veto, with the chapter of the Laws of Delaware and the date the act takes effect. A substitute is a bill of its own, named for the bill it replaces ("HS 1 for HB 427"). Each printed version is there to read and compare, with struck language left out. Committee meetings with their agendas, and each chamber's floor days, are on the calendar.
• Georgia's full record. Every Georgia bill of the 2023–24 and 2025–26 sessions, and of the 2023 and 2026 special sessions, now carries its whole history: the hopper, each reading, committee reports and committee substitutes, passage or loss in each chamber, agreeing to the other chamber's version, reconsideration, and the governor's signature or veto with the act number. Every floor vote is there with each member's vote. Each printed version is there to read and compare, with struck language left out. Committee meetings with the bills on their agendas, and each chamber's floor sessions, are on the calendar.
• Hawaii's full record. Every Hawaii bill and resolution since 2023, both years of each Legislature, now carries its whole history: referrals, hearings and decision making, committee reports, each reading, conference, and the governor's act, veto or line-item veto. Every committee vote is there with each member's vote, in both chambers and in conference, and every floor vote too. A bill carried into the second year dies at that year's sine die; a resolution, which doesn't carry over, at its own year's. Each printing (HD, SD, CD) is there to read and compare, with struck language left out. Committee hearings with their agendas, and each chamber's floor days, are on the calendar.
• Idaho's full record. Every Idaho bill, resolution and memorial since 2023 now carries its whole history: introduction and printing, referral, committee reports, each reading, the amending order, concurrence, and the governor's signature or veto, with the session law chapter and the date the law takes effect, as Idaho publishes it. Every floor roll call is there with each member's vote, and each committee roll call the minutes record. Each printing, as introduced and as amended, is there to read and compare, with struck language left out. Committee meetings with their agendas, and each chamber's floor days, are on the calendar.
• Delaware's and Georgia's laws, with when they take effect. Every Delaware and Georgia law of the 2025–26 session now shows its effective date. Both states publish one for each law, and that date is shown; each law's text is read as well, so a part that takes effect on another date is listed beside it. Delaware's laws otherwise take effect on becoming law. Each state's dates passed the same hand check as the others, with no wrong date in a sample of 60.
• Ohio's laws, with when they take effect. Every Ohio law of the 2025–26 session now shows its effective date: the date Ohio publishes, usually the 91st day after the governor files the law, or immediately for emergency acts and current-expense appropriations. Laws whose parts take effect on other dates are marked staggered, with each part's date. They're on each bill, in the Legislation list's Takes effect filter and column, and on Ohio's legislature page.
• When new laws take effect. For California, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania and Congress, every enacted bill now shows when it takes effect: the date its main provisions take effect, how sure that date is, and how it was worked out, from the enacted text or the state's own rule. Acts that take effect in stages say so. In the bill list, filter by Takes effect (the last or next 30, 90 or 365 days, this year, or your own range) and by Effective-date basis, and sort the table by its Takes effect column. Each jurisdiction was checked by hand against its enacted laws before going live. The other states follow. See Effective dates.
• Every legislature, in public. capitolmath.ai/legislatures has a page for each of the 52 legislatures: whether it's sitting, what it has introduced and enacted this session, hearings in the coming week, and, where effective dates are live, the laws taking effect in the next 90 days. Each year has a session-dates guide, and January 1 and July 1 have a page of the new laws taking effect, state by state and nationally, each with a JSON version. They refresh as the data does, and say when they were last updated.
• Whip counts, held to account. Every whip count is recorded before anyone sees it and scored against the roll call, and the results go on the public accuracy scoreboard on a fixed schedule from March 1, 2027, under a methodology registered in advance. A chamber whose whip counts fall below their baseline has them withdrawn, in the bill panel, widgets, the API and the MCP server, until they've done better than it twice. Every projection links to its chamber's record. Early in a session, a chamber's whip counts use its previous session's model until there are enough contested votes for its own, and members seated since aren't projected. See Whip counts.

Week of October 5, 2026#

• How current the data is, in public. The status page now shows when each jurisdiction's bills were last refreshed, how often that happens, and whether it's up to date. The front page's coverage table has a Last updated column. After every refresh, consistency checks look for a refresh that succeeded but came back incomplete. See Coverage.
• Find a bill by its number. Search results now lead with the bill whose number you typed, then close matches, then titles. Type the number however you like: S56, S 56 and s. 56 all find S 56. See Searching bills.
• Every version of a bill, dated. A bill's Full text heading says how many versions it has, and Compare versions opens on the previous version against the current one, each dated. What an amendment added now reads as added. New York's versions carry their print dates. See Reading a bill.
• Click through the Dashboard for several states. On the Dashboard for several jurisdictions or All, choose a state on the map, a month's column or a slice to list those bills. A link above the list takes you back to the chart. The map zooms and pans like a district map. See About the bill list.
• Dead when the session's scheduled end has passed. Where a legislature hasn't recorded its adjournment, bills now count as Dead once the session's scheduled end has passed, marked with an ⓘ that says so. If the legislature keeps voting, they go back to In progress. See Status and outcome labels.
• Webhook payloads, documented and held to their version. Help now lists every field each event sends, and every body is in its webhook's payload version. New fields can be added to a version; any other change to a payload comes as a new version, and your webhook keeps receiving the one it's on. Test sends now have every field the real event carries. When a new version comes, a webhook's page compares the two formats event by event and lets you test the new one before switching, with Switch back for 30 days. See When CapitolMath changes.
• Your published scorecard stays put while you edit. Saving a scorecard no longer changes the widgets that publish it. You're asked whether to update them, with what changed and where each one is shown, and can skip until you're ready. The votes stay live either way. See When the scorecard changes.
• Widgets stay as you made them. Saving a widget you haven't changed now changes nothing, and a chart or option CapitolMath stops offering stays on the widgets already showing it. Paid panels a widget shows also stay if your plan no longer includes them. A widget with older options says so, and Update this widget shows it updated beside how it is now, with Undo update for 30 days. See When CapitolMath changes.
• Chart widgets match the Dashboard. A saved view of several jurisdictions, of All, or a list now offers the charts its own Dashboard shows, including the map of bills by state and bills updated each month, in the Dashboard's order. A new chart widget starts on the Dashboard's first chart: the map, for several jurisdictions. Widgets state when their data was last refreshed, without a warning that it may be out of date. See Widget types.
• Exports hold what the list shows. A CSV export now applies every filter on the list, including Currently with, a committee's bills and a search of the bill text. A committee's bills also stay scoped when you search or sort them.
• Velocity for Congress. Nearly every federal bill now has a legislative velocity. It's worked out from the bill's dated history, counting passage by voice vote and unanimous consent. See Legislative velocity.
• Bills like. A new filter on Legislation, just under Location: choose one bill from any jurisdiction, or one of your lists of up to 20 bills, and see the bills in your chosen locations that are like it — near-identical text or the same subject. Pick a Pennsylvania bill with California chosen to see California's versions; choose All and a list to see the whole country's. It saves with a view, and a saved view reads its list fresh each time. See Bill facets.
• Accessibility. CapitolMath is built to WCAG 2.2 AA, and the conformance report (a VPAT) rates every Level A and AA criterion, says how it was tested, and how to report a barrier. Every page starts with Skip to main content; charts, maps and the calendar have tables of their data; and widgets warn before an accent color would fail contrast. See Accessibility.
• The app has its own address. CapitolMath — the data, views, lists, scorecards, widgets and the rest — is at app.capitolmath.ai, for registered users only: open any of its pages signed out and you're asked to sign in, then taken where you were going. capitolmath.ai is the public site: the home page, Pricing, the legal and trust pages, Help and the API docs. Old links still work. See Finding your way around.
• Questions before you sign up. On the public site, the help button's assistant answers questions about CapitolMath — what it does, what each plan includes and costs — and passes anything it can't answer to a person. See Getting help.
• One help button. The help button at the bottom right now opens the assistant first, and puts a person one step away: Message support from any answer, with your conversation attached and no email address to type. Support's replies show under My profile › Support requests, with a dot on the help button until you read them. See Getting help.
• The assistant. Select the help button at the bottom right of any page, or press ⌘J, and ask how to do something. Answers come from Help, cite the sections they come from, and take you to the right place. On paid plans it also answers questions about bills, legislators and hearings, checked against the data before you see them, and turns a sentence into a search you can review and save with Save this search. See The assistant.
• Organization is the new name for what CapitolMath used to call your account — the Account page is now Organization. See About your organization.
• The calendar, by your legislation. Choose any number of your saved bill views under Legislation and the calendar shows the meetings their bills are on; Location fills with the places they cover, and you can take any out — or choose All for every jurisdiction. The calendar also has saved views of its own, like Legislation and Elected Officials — and they run from code too, through /v1/saved-calendar-view-search and the MCP tool search_events_by_calendar_view. See About the calendar and API quickstart.
• Help. You're reading it: articles for every part of CapitolMath, searchable from any page with ⌘K, and opening beside what you're doing.
• Find similar. With a list open, Find similar walks you through three steps — where to look, which sessions and stages, then which bills to keep — and adds the bills you pick to a list. See Lists.
• Outcome and furthest stage, as pies. The bill Dashboard shows bills by outcome and by furthest stage as two pie charts, and both are available as widgets — including for a list.
• Outcome in bill-list widgets. Each bill's outcome now shows on its card and as the last column of the table.
• Groups when you invite. Choose the groups someone joins when you invite them, and change them later in Edit member. See Inviting members.
• Sponsor effectiveness now leaves resolutions out, in the panel, the API and the dashboard.
• Your logo in the organization chooser, beside each organization's name.
• Find my legislators. Beside a scorecard's tabs, in CapitolMath and in widgets, an address box suggests full street addresses as you type and narrow to the legislators whose districts contain the one you choose — on the district lines the session was elected on. It replaces the ZIP code lookup, which used each ZIP code's center and could pick the wrong district. It's a display option of its own. See Finding your representatives by address.

Week of September 28, 2026#

• Legislator scorecards. Grade legislators on the votes you care about: start from a saved view, a list or earlier rules, weight each bill, choose how missing votes count, and review before you save. Results open on tabs — Legislators, Bills, Matrix, Distribution, Map, Tiles and Methodology — and a Filters panel narrows them. See About legislator scorecards.
• Lists and Favorites. Hand-pick bills into a list with Select items, in your own order; Favorites is your private list. See Lists and Favorites.
• Widgets for every kind of data — bill, event, official, chart, session and scorecard widgets — built in an editor that asks for the topic, a single item or a collection, the source, then options. See About widgets.
• The Integration menu gathers every way to take the data out — widgets, webhooks, datasets and the API. See Ways to take data out.
• Webhooks tell your systems, Slack, Teams or an inbox when something you track changes. See About webhooks.
• The audit log records who did what in your organization. See The audit log.
• All locations on the bill list, and Last updated as its own facet, opening on the last 365 days.
• Single sign-on for Pro and Scale organizations, once CapitolMath turns it on for you.
• Export and close your organization yourself, from Organization.
• Saved views of officials, and the bill and officials lists as sortable tables.
• Calendar times in your own time zone, with the zone named.

Week of September 21, 2026#

• Sign in with Google, Microsoft, Slack or GitHub, and accept an invitation with any of them. See Signing in.
• Share saved views with members, groups or everyone in your organization, and file them in categories. See Sharing a saved view.
• Plans side by side on Pricing, a State plan for one state's API and exports, and changing plan in place. See Plans and what they include.
• Bulk datasets, rebuilt nightly, for Pro and Scale.
• Invitations you can resend, change and rescind, and an organization chooser for people in more than one organization. See Choosing and switching organizations.
• API quota alerts by email at 80% and 100% of the month's calls.

Week of September 14, 2026#

• CapitolMath is the new name for LegisData.
• Organizations, with roles and licenses kept separate, and five plans billed to the organization. See Roles and licenses.
• Add to calendar on every hearing and session.