Tool reference

Find bills by structured filters: policy issue, sponsor, committee, status, filing date, significance, whether the bill is currently moving, whether it grows or shrinks government authority, and which way it leans.

Status means the stage a bill has *reached*, not where it sits today — a bill that passed the House and died in the Senate did pass the House, and both are worth being able to ask for. Long result sets are paged, with a cursor rather than a silent stop.

query · issueSlugs · statuses · sponsorName · committeeName · filedAfter · minSignificance · onlyMoving · governmentScopeDirection · lean · minLeanScore · maxLeanScore · limit · cursor

Searches the full text of bills, amendments, and fiscal notes by meaning, for when a bill addresses a topic without using its obvious words. Returns passages with the bill they came from, and handles exact strings such as statute citations.

This is what keyword tracking systematically misses, and the reason a bill blindsides an organization in April.

query · documentTypes · topK

Full detail for one bill: sponsors, committee, status, action history, companions, policy tags, key provisions, scores, and which way the bill leans with the reasoning behind it. The right call before any specific factual claim.

The lean is a direction, not a recommendation — a bill can lean conservative and still be one an organization opposes. It carries a confidence, and is absent entirely for bills where the axis does not apply.

billNumber · billId

The actual text, by section and page. Use it when the exact wording matters — quoting a provision, checking what a section says, reading an amendment.

Long documents are paged and every response reports how much remains, so an agent cannot mistake page one for the whole bill.

billNumber · billId · documentRef · documentType · section · page · includeHistorical

Amendments filed against a bill, what each does, and whether it was adopted, withdrawn, or is still pending.

In Tennessee amendments are how bills change — there are no separately published revisions — so this is how you know a bill is still the bill you read.

billNumber · billId · adoptedOnly

What a bill changes about the law that already exists — the current statute text, the proposed text, and a redline between them, per cited code section. Amendatory drafting ("Section 39-17-1359(b) is amended by deleting the second sentence") says nothing about what the sentence said; this does.

The redline is generated by a model from scraped statute text, so it is a reading of the change rather than the enrolled language, and the source URL travels with it. Every response says whether the bill was analysed at all — "no changes" is reported differently from "not processed" and from "this state is out of scope", because an empty list otherwise reads as a bill that leaves current law alone.

billNumber · billId · sectionNumber · includeFullText · page

Two to five bills aligned side by side — provisions, statutes touched, status, scores — plus which are companions and how textually similar they are.

One call instead of several lined up by hand, which is where transcription errors creep in.

billNumbers · billIds

Bills whose text and policy resemble a given bill, ranked, with companions labelled.

Similarity shows resemblance only. It is never evidence of coordination or of model legislation.

billNumber · billId · limit

Totals by chamber and party, who voted against, who was absent, and any party defectors. Ask for every member and how they voted to build a whip count.

Where a source published only a tally, the member list comes back empty and flagged — so an empty dissenter list on a 12–4 vote reads as "the names were not published", never as "nobody dissented".

billNumber · billId · rollCallId · legislatorNames · includeAllVoters

A member’s profile plus sponsorship and voting activity this session: bill counts, top policy areas, and how often they vote against their own party. Omit the name to rank a whole caucus instead of asking member by member.

Breaking with the party counts only votes actually cast against it. Not Voting and Absent are reported separately, never as breaks — counting them was inflating members who simply miss votes into apparent mavericks.

name · peopleId · includeCommittees · party · chamber · sort · limit · cursor

The specific roll calls where a member voted against their own party — the bill, the date, how they voted, what their party voted, what the other party voted, and which way the bill leans. Filter to breaks on conservative-leaning bills where the member crossed to the other side, and the scorecard question answers itself.

Each break says whether the member crossed to the other party’s majority, and how many of their own party broke with them. A lone crossover and a break twenty colleagues joined are different findings, and a rate alone cannot tell them apart.

name · peopleId · crossedOnly · billLean · minSignificance · limit · cursor

How closely two voting records agree — one member against another, a whole caucus ranked by how often they vote with someone, or every member ranked against your own recorded support and oppose positions. The whip-count tool: who is reliable, who is a swing, and which bloc a member actually votes with.

Quote the contested rate, not the raw one. Roughly four in five roll calls pass unanimously, so raw agreement mostly measures uncontroversial business — it makes a Republican and a Democrat who oppose each other on everything contested look like 86% allies. On contested votes that same pair is 28%. Both numbers are returned; only one of them means anything.

name · peopleId · compareToName · compareToPeopleId · compareToPortfolio · party · chamber · issueSlugs · billLean · minSignificance · limit

Membership with chair and vice chair, bills pending before it, and scheduled hearings. Searching bills tells you what sits in a committee; only this tells you who decides.

The roster is reconstructed from the roll-call record for the session — who actually sat on the panel, not who sits today. 43% of the member-committee pairs the Tennessee record evidences are absent from present-day rosters.

name · committeeId · include · limit · asOf

The conservative position framework this organization measures legislation against — scope, principles, the bright-line support and oppose rules, Tennessee’s legal landscape, and the traps — across 13 policy domains. Ask for a domain by name, or pass a bill and get the framework for its own domain.

The bill tools are deliberately descriptive and carry no position. Without this an assistant judging whether something is "conservative" is using its own idea of the word rather than yours.

domain · billNumber · billId · includePrinciples

Bills filed, actions taken, votes recorded, amendments filed, hearings scheduled. The starting point for "what changed this week", rather than searching text.

sinceDays · issueSlugs · limit · cursor

What is scheduled and when, across every bill at once — committee and floor calendars, filterable to a committee, an issue, named bills, or just the ones your organization tracks. One call in place of asking each committee separately and merging the answers.

The structured calendar feed this state publishes is nearly empty, so most events are recovered from the wording of the action record itself. Each event says which source it came from. An empty result reports the dates the record does cover, so a recess reads as a recess rather than as an absence of data.

from · to · committeeName · issueSlugs · billNumbers · minSignificance · onlyTracked · limit

Counts, averages, and outcome rates across the session, computed in the database rather than sampled from a page of results — grouped by issue, committee, sponsor, party, status, month, or which way bills lean. Pass and fail rates by referring committee answer the chokepoint question: where do our bills actually die. Filters combine, so two-dimensional questions are a single call.

Models miscount, so anything that can be arithmetic is done in SQL. Rates come with their denominator and are associations rather than causes — a committee with a high pass rate may be advancing bills, or may simply be where bills are sent once leadership has already decided to move them, and this data cannot tell the two apart.

metric · groupBy · issueSlugs · party · lean · statuses · committeeName · filedAfter · filedBefore · limit

Your organization’s own tracked bills, issue portfolios, and positions — what you support, what you oppose, and how much you care.

Reachable only through a connection you signed in to from the AI app. A pasted token can never read it.

portfolioName · onlyTracked · limit · cursor

What your organization knows about one legislator that the public record does not — the notes your staff recorded, how many of your supporters live in their district and how many have contacted them, and how they voted on the bills you took a position on. The brief you want before a district meeting.

Reachable only through a connection you signed in to from the AI app; a pasted token cannot see it at all. A zero supporter count usually means addresses have not been geocoded rather than that nobody there supports you, and the response says so — the two read identically and lead to opposite decisions.

name · peopleId · noteType · limit