We Are Your Search Engine For Democracy
OUR MISSION
We strive to make our democracy more democratic by helping everyone understand and participate in the legislative process.
We make it easy to find bills and regulations
and then share them
What We Do
We make complicated legislative information as accessible as possible:
- Search results from all states and Congress are presented in an easy to understand grid that includes links to more detailed information
- Our bill pages include plain English AI-generated summaries, available to everyone
- We present bills in the same format across all states
- We also provide full contact details for all current legislators to encourage citizens to get involved
Our Business Model
BillTrack50 offers both a free and a paid service to help you with following legislation. Our genuinely free service allows citizens to search by keyword or bill number to discover and review an unlimited number of state and federal bills. Unlimited free access to bill data is fundamental to the working of our sharing tools and is fundamental to our mission. It won’t be going away.
BillTrack50 does not sell your data to third parties or accept paid advertising. We make our money from our subscription services.
Why We Are Special
BillTrack50 wants it to be easy to share important bills with others. We provide a consistent, permanent version of every bill, making links to our bill pages ideal for citizens to share on social media or journalists to use in stories.
BillTrack50’s more powerful paid tools are available by subscription and allow for saving searches, receiving alerts, and collaborating internally.
But we think what really sets us apart are our simple, elegant tools for sharing legislation online. These tools are designed for organizations that need to keep others, including the general public, informed about bills as they progress.
For fancier sharing we offer a variety of specialty services including our mobile app, legislator scorecards, and an API so you can build exactly what you need.
Visit our inspirations help post to see what people have built using the myriad BillTrack50 sharing tools.
Our Impacts
Who We Are
BillTrack50 was founded as a Colorado Corporation in 2011 by Karen Suhaka and her small team of data wranglers. We have been cheerfully helping advocates advocate ever since. We take intense care with our data to ensure it is timely and accurate but we also never take our eye off the real prize — helping our clients shine like superstars. Register for a free account and start a free trial to try out the tracking and sharing tools, or reach out to us anytime for a demo.