LegiScan is the heart of Government Affairs Information Tracking Service (GAITS), providing the normalized legislative data that drives the system. These interactions are handled over a web-based API that we are testing to make available to developers.

We will provide further details as we get closer to finalizing the release this fall. You will be have to sign up a free API key that will allow you to query and retrieve legislative information. For now here is the preliminary view of the upcoming exposed API.

Until then you may be interested in the Legislative Data Export snapshots.

LegiScan API Calls

getSessionList (STATE)

Will return a list of session descriptions for the given state.

getMasterList (SESSION_ID)

Will return a list of the bills from a particular session.

getBill (BILL_ID)

Will return the bill detail information for the specified bill_id.

getSponsor (PEOPLE_ID)

Will return details for a particular person.

getBillText (BILL_TEXT_ID)

Will return the bill text for the specified text_id.

getRollCall (ROLL_CALL_ID)

Will return a list of the people_id and vote cast for the specified roll_call_id.