Filtering Bills
Help with using bill types, progress categories, the session timeline, committees and bill sponsors to filter your searches.
- Blog Post
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- Intermediate
How Legislative Sessions Work ★
An explanation of how the states organize their sessions and how that affects searching using the timeline.
- Blog Post
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- Intermediate
How to Search or Filter By Committee ★
An explanation of how to find bills that have been sent to a specific committee, or filter a bill search to just include those bills.
- Blog Post
- Estimated Read Time 2.00
- Intermediate
Committee Categories on the Bill Sheet Query Tab
An explanation of what the different committee categories include.
- Video
- Estimated Watch Time 10:06
- Getting Started
BillTrack50 Paid Features
A run through of the features you get with a BillTrack50 subscription - bill searching, bill tracking, sharing, and legislator scorecards.
- Video
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- Intermediate
How to Filter a Search by Committee
A demonstration of how to filter the bills on a bill sheet by a broad committee category or specific committees.
- Video
- Estimated Watch Time 0:02:52
- Intermediate
How to Search For Bills From A Previous Session
An explanation of how to use the timeline to search for bills from previous years.
- Video
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- Intermediate
Managing Prefiled Bills Using the Timeline
- Video
- Estimated Watch Time 0:01:54
- Intermediate
Handling Special Sessions
A demonstration showing how to modify your bill sheet to add a column showing which session a bill is associated with, so that you can tell special session bills, regular session bills, and pre-filed bills apart.
- Blog Post
- Estimated Read Time 0:04:00
- Getting Started
Bill Type Definitions
An explanation of the bill types on the Query tab.
- Blog Post
- Estimated Read Time 0:03:15
- Getting Started
Meet the Bill Progress Categories
An explanation of the bill progress categories on the query tab.
- Blog Post
- Estimated Read Time 0:02:52
- Advanced
Managing Prefiled Bills Using the Timeline
- Blog Post
- Estimated Read Time 0:02:45
- Intermediate
Filter Your Bill Sheet by Session
An explanation of how to use a template and then filter to identify bills from a specific session.
- Blog Post
- Estimated Read Time 0:02:04
- Getting Started