Legislations
All about our legislative data, and how you can use it.
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All about our legislative data, and how you can use it.
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Legislations are the source data that nearly all OurGov data relies on. Each legislation possesses a series of events that we use to , lobbying positions that we show alongside a bill, and other workflows that we support, like or for bills.
is a fundamental concept in OurGov that serves to categorize legislation by subject matter:
When a bill is introduced, an OurGov team member will read through the bill and manually categorize it by assigning relevant tags. This is just one of many important pieces of metadata that we stamp on legislations.
Tagging legislation allows OurGov to suggest related bills and tags, based on the interest you or your organization have indicated via subscribing.
Some examples of algorithms we have in place to make you more efficient based on this data:
Suggesting legislators to reach out to when introducing new legislation on a particular topic.
Identifying other lobbying principals working or sharing interest in a particular topic.
Suggesting which bills to register positions on based on other registered positions.
...and many more.
Read more about tags below:
OurGov automatically identifies companion bills--that is, which bills are representative of another in a different chamber.
This is beneficial as it allows you to quickly compare the bill text of a bill from the other chamber, or even those of substitute amendments:
You can also create your own private tags, like , or .
One of the perks of being an user is the ability to see draft legislation before the text is released to the public. This gives you an opportunity to advise on a bill in its infancy, significantly improving your ability to have an impact.
Learn more about bill comparison .
