On 20 July 2025 we launched Regulations 2.0, a complete rebuild of our regulation tracking service designed to mirror the bill tracking experience. Every regulation now lives as a discrete record with descriptive titles, structured metadata, AI summaries and the same filtering and alerting tools long-time users already know from bills. A year on, we have a clean twelve-month window to look at.
Everything below covers regulations published between 1 July 2025 and 25 June 2026, indexed on each regulation’s version date.
The headlines
In twelve months the system ingested 618 bulletins and produced 56,934 individual regulations from 4,156 agencies across all 50 states, DC and the federal government.
Volume and cadence
Monthly output sits in a tight band between roughly 3,600 and 5,900, averaging around 4,700. Unlike bills, which cluster heavily into legislative sessions and go quiet over the summer, regulatory output runs all year. Agencies follow fiscal calendars and statutory deadlines that do not line up with one another, so the firehose never really stops.
Where they come from
Federal agencies account for 38 percent of everything tracked — more than the next eight states combined. Ohio leads at state level. This is a sharper federal tilt than the bill universe, where Congress is one of 52 producers and contributes a smaller share of total volume.
Document types
Just over half are formal regulations; two in five are notices — a category that covers tax administration, license actions and agency announcements. At publication, 23,235 regulations were already final, 8,455 were proposed and 423 had been withdrawn. The proposed-to-final ratio is the closest analogue to a bill’s introduction-to-enactment journey, but on the regulatory side publishing is much closer to adopting.
Policy areas
Agriculture and Natural Resources tops the list at 10,864, followed almost exactly by Health and Human Services at 10,642. Two patterns stand out in the type mix: Budget and Finance is two-thirds notices, reflecting the volume of tax and securities filings; and State Affairs is the home of nearly every executive document tracked, because that category captures governors’ offices and secretaries of state.
The busiest agencies
On the bill side, the headline producers are individual legislators. On the regulatory side, the producers are agencies — and the federal economic regulators top the list by a wide margin.
Top 5 federal agencies
| Agency | Category | Regulations |
|---|---|---|
| Securities and Exchange Commission | Budget and Finance | 2,292 |
| Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | Agriculture and Natural Resources | 1,183 |
| National Institutes of Health | Health and Human Services | 1,057 |
| Federal Aviation Administration | Transportation and Infrastructure | 1,023 |
| National Park Service | Agriculture and Natural Resources | 1,002 |
Top 5 state agencies
| Agency | State | Category | Regulations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Environmental Protection Agency | OH | Agriculture and Natural Resources | 485 |
| Secretary of State, Notary Public Division | NC | State Affairs | 425 |
| Public Service Commission | NY | Transportation and Infrastructure | 398 |
| Governor’s Office | GA | State Affairs | 390 |
| Department of State | NY | State Affairs | 379 |
From publication to in force
For the 14,951 regulations with an effective date in the window, the average gap between publication and the rule actually biting is about two weeks. A fifth take effect the same day they are published; a further third within thirty days. By contrast, bills that become law typically have months between passage and effective date, usually tied to a fiscal year or a delayed implementation clause. Regulations move faster.