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Legislation and laws impact the daily life of everyone in one way or another. Hence, it's important to remain up to date and engaged with the legislation in both your state and federal governments. LegiScan aims to "Bring People to the Process" and provides a variety of ways to remain involved and updated with legislation nationwide. 

LegiScan: What Is It?

As the first impartial, real-time legislative tracking service for both public citizens and professionals,
LegiScan provides monitoring of every bill in the 50 states and on the federal level. LegiScan believes an informed electorate is an "essential part of a democracy to make decisions on how citizens choose to be represented with our tools to follow and research the legislative process." Their mission statement states:

"Bringing People to the Process without bias or conflict; we believe that each individual in a democracy has a voice, and it is through increased awareness and engagement that you facilitate that voice, enabled by the data and tools provided at LegiScan."


LegisScan also promotes three pillars:

  • Research
    • "Identify legislation of interest or concern through the LegiScan national search engine, receive alerts based on saved full text keyword searches when bills are introduced that match your criteria."
  • Monitor
    • "Build a personalized and categorized list of monitored legislation to follow through the process and receive updates when there are changes or activity to your tracked bills."
  • Report
    • "Generate dynamic status reports of monitored bills with numerous reporting and formatting options that can also be shared with clients or other interested parties."

Legislation Tracking Features

There are multiple ways LegiScan offers legislation tracking features. With over 175,000 bills each year, it can be difficult to track them on your own. There are three types of tracking features available to patrons:
  • OneVote
    • Free public service for individuals 
  • OneVote+
    • For more active users that require tracking multiple states or expanded monitoring lists
    • Single State: $25/yr and up to 50 States & Congress: $1000/yr
  • GAITS Pro
    • Professional service with custom client/issue tracking and advanced reporting features
    • Single State: $100/yr and up to 50 States & Congress: $3000/yr
LegiScan Datasets

Each Sunday, session data, which includes the legislation, bills, and the details, is updated as needed. That data is within the datasets LegiScan provides as .csv files. They are set up by States and by year and sessions. The datasets are free to download. 


Bill Tracking

A separate and simple way of finding certain legislation by year and state is using the LegiScan Bill Tracking feature. It can also be filtered through status of a bill and type of bill. 

Extra Resources

The LegiScan General Search is a search box to find legislation using bill number or full text search.

The LegiScan Webinar provides a video on how to navigate the scan and it's resources.
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