Filtering Bills

Help with using bill types, progress categories, the session timeline, committees and bill sponsors to filter your searches.

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How Legislative Sessions Work

An explanation of how the states organize their sessions and how that affects searching using the timeline.

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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.

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Committee Categories on the Bill Sheet Query Tab

An explanation of what the different committee categories include.

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  • 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.

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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.

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How to Search For Bills From A Previous Session

An explanation of how to use the timeline to search for bills from previous years.

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Managing Prefiled Bills Using the Timeline

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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.

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Bill Type Definitions

An explanation of the bill types on the Query tab.

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Meet the Bill Progress Categories

An explanation of the bill progress categories on the query tab.

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Managing Prefiled Bills Using the Timeline

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Filter Your Bill Sheet by Session

An explanation of how to use a template and then filter to identify bills from a specific session.

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How to Search For Bills From A Previous Session