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Compile a citation-ready evidence packet for a bill: full official record, legislative history timeline, votes with member-level detail, and hearings -- each explicitly labeled official vs. derived with source URLs. Returns a `how_to_cite` block with a one-line `cite_as` sentence, a human `permalink`, a JSON `download_url`, and a `snapshot_id` that changes if and only if a cited fact about the bill changes -- so a reader can check later whether the citation still holds. Snapshots are NOT archived; the id is a change detector, not a way to retrieve an older packet. Pass `question` to record what the packet was assembled to answer; it is echoed into the artifact so a filed packet carries its own scope.
Compile a citation-ready evidence packet for a bill: full official record, legislative history timeline, votes with member-level detail, and hearings -- each explicitly labeled official vs. derived with source URLs. Returns a `how_to_cite` block with a one-line `cite_as` sentence, a human `permalink`, a JSON `download_url`, and a `snapshot_id` that changes if and only if a cited fact about the bill changes -- so a reader can check later whether the citation still holds. Snapshots are NOT archived; the id is a change detector, not a way to retrieve an older packet. Pass `question` to record what the packet was assembled to answer; it is echoed into the artifact so a filed packet carries its own scope.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| bill_id* | string | |
| question | any | |
| include_full_text | boolean |
{
"type": "object",
"title": "build_legislative_evidence_packetArguments",
"required": [
"bill_id"
],
"properties": {
"bill_id": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Bill Id"
},
"question": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Question",
"default": null
},
"include_full_text": {
"type": "boolean",
"title": "Include Full Text",
"default": false
}
}
}Deterministic diff (unified + structured) between two versions of a bill's extracted text. Defaults to earliest vs. latest texted version if version ids are omitted. Errors if fewer than 2 versions have extracted text. Result is labeled 'derived' (computed by Bill Commons, not an official document).
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| bill_id* | string | |
| version_id_a | any | |
| version_id_b | any |
{
"type": "object",
"title": "compare_bill_versionsArguments",
"required": [
"bill_id"
],
"properties": {
"bill_id": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Bill Id"
},
"version_id_a": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Version Id A",
"default": null
},
"version_id_b": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Version Id B",
"default": null
}
}
}Find bills with similar titles via deterministic trigram similarity, across jurisdictions. Labeled 'derived' -- not an official cross-reference or companion-bill designation.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | any | |
| bill_id* | string |
{
"type": "object",
"title": "find_similar_billsArguments",
"required": [
"bill_id"
],
"properties": {
"limit": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "integer"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Limit",
"default": null
},
"bill_id": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Bill Id"
}
}
}List legislative sessions currently flagged active, optionally filtered by jurisdiction (two-letter state code or name).
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| jurisdiction | any |
{
"type": "object",
"title": "get_active_sessionsArguments",
"properties": {
"jurisdiction": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Jurisdiction",
"default": null
}
}
}Fetch the full record for one bill: metadata, sponsors, subjects, actions, versions, and vote-event summaries. Look up by canonical bill_id (UUID), or by jurisdiction + identifier (+ optional session to disambiguate). For a human bill number like HB 123, use jurisdiction="NC", identifier="HB 123"; bill_id is for UUIDs.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| bill_id | any | |
| session | any | |
| identifier | any | |
| jurisdiction | any | |
| include_full_text | boolean |
{
"type": "object",
"title": "get_bill_recordArguments",
"properties": {
"bill_id": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Bill Id",
"default": null
},
"session": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Session",
"default": null
},
"identifier": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Identifier",
"default": null
},
"jurisdiction": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Jurisdiction",
"default": null
},
"include_full_text": {
"type": "boolean",
"title": "Include Full Text",
"default": false
}
}
}Return the jurisdiction_coverage state-machine status for one state (abbreviation or name), or the full stored coverage matrix if state is omitted. Public-registry and unlisted row counts are explicit. Includes bounded retained official-source observation health and evidence links. Coverage status measures stored bill/text availability; local coverage timestamps can advance on count recomputation. Statewide semantic freshness remains unverified, including for GREEN coverage.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| state | any |
{
"type": "object",
"title": "get_jurisdiction_coverageArguments",
"properties": {
"state": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "State",
"default": null
}
}
}Fetch vote event(s) with member-level (yes/no/other/absent) vote records. Provide vote_event_id for one vote, or bill_id for all recorded votes on that bill.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| bill_id | any | |
| vote_event_id | any |
{
"type": "object",
"title": "get_vote_detailsArguments",
"properties": {
"bill_id": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Bill Id",
"default": null
},
"vote_event_id": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Vote Event Id",
"default": null
}
}
}List Bill Commons' curated cross-state topic trackers (e.g. artificial intelligence, youth online safety, platform accountability, cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, data privacy, local government & preemption) -- the entry point for "what subjects does Bill Commons track across all 50 states + DC" and "how do I get every bill in one". Each topic is a title/subject membership rule tuned for precision over recall, with a live bill_count and how_to_fetch_bills. This tool does not itself return bill rows -- pair it with search_legislation or the REST API's /topics/{slug} for the bills.
No arguments.
{
"type": "object",
"title": "list_topicsArguments",
"properties": {}
}Search FULL BILL TEXT -- not just known-bill-number lookup. `q` is matched against titles, descriptions, AND ingested document text via Postgres websearch_to_tsquery (supports "quoted phrases", OR, and -exclusion, same syntax as a search engine), with a fuzzy pg_trgm title-similarity fallback when the exact query has no hits. `q` can ALSO be a bill number ("HB 123", "H.B. 123", "hb123" all match) and that fast path is tried first. Optionally filter by jurisdiction (two-letter state code or name), chamber, and status. For a curated cross-state slice of a subject (e.g. "every AI bill in the country") rather than an ad-hoc keyword search, call list_topics first -- its membership rules also match on structured subject tags this full-text search does not see.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| q* | string | |
| limit | any | |
| status | any | |
| chamber | any | |
| jurisdiction | any |
{
"type": "object",
"title": "search_legislationArguments",
"required": [
"q"
],
"properties": {
"q": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Q"
},
"limit": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "integer"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Limit",
"default": null
},
"status": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Status",
"default": null
},
"chamber": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Chamber",
"default": null
},
"jurisdiction": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Jurisdiction",
"default": null
}
}
}Full chronological legislative history for a bill: merged timeline of actions, version publications, and votes, plus related-bill links.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| bill_id* | string |
{
"type": "object",
"title": "trace_legislative_historyArguments",
"required": [
"bill_id"
],
"properties": {
"bill_id": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Bill Id"
}
}
}