How do position statements work?

A position statement is your organization's public explanation of where you stand on a bill. It is public. It appears on your website, in reports, and as the body of the bill's action pages. For private thoughts, use the internal notes instead, which are never shown publicly.

Write a statement

The bill must be tracked first.

• On the bill's page, under Position statement, type in the box and click Save.
• Or on Tracked Bills, click the pencil (Edit) on the bill, fill in Position statement, and click Save.

A statement can be up to 5,000 characters. The counter under the box shows how many you have used.

In states with companion bills, the statement belongs to the one bill you write it on. Position and priority apply to both bills of the pair.

Write with AI

On the bill's page, click Write with AI next to Position statement. The AI drafts a statement that argues your position, in a few paragraphs, using the same writer as action page text.

• The button appears only when your position is Support, Oppose or Amend. Neutral and No position have nothing to argue, so set a position first.
• The draft goes into the box. Nothing is saved until you click Save, so read it and edit it first.
• Check what the AI wrote against the bill text before you publish it.

How the statement fills your action pages

The statement leads. When you save a new statement, it is copied into the body of your action pages about that one bill, when:

• the page is not archived,
• the page asks for the same position as your tracked position, or has no position set (an Oppose page never gets a Support statement), and
• the page's body is empty, or is still the previous statement.

A page whose body someone rewrote keeps its own text. Clearing the statement changes no page. Editing a page's body never changes the statement. These updates show in Activity.

When you create an action page for a bill, the form fills an empty body with the bill's statement, and offers Use the bill's position statement to bring it back. See the article on action pages.

Who can write or change a statement

• Owners and Editors can write, edit and draft statements with AI.
• Analysts and Viewers can read statements but not change them.
• Once a bill is shown on your website, only an Owner can change its statement, because it changes what the public sees.

If this does not solve it, email support@conservativestates.app and tell us your organization's name.