What Does "Introduced Bills" Mean in My Recommendations?

How Are My Bill Recommendations Chosen?

It can feel like magic when the perfect bill recommendation appears on your dashboard. We want to pull back the curtain and show you how our system works to find bills that are most relevant to you. It’s a smart system designed to act as your personalized legislative search engine.

It Starts with Your Preferences

Our recommendation system tailors its suggestions based on the preferences you set. It primarily looks at three key things:

• Keywords: This is the most important part. The system actively scans the titles, descriptions, summaries, and text of bills to find matches for the keywords you've saved.
• States: Recommendations are limited to only the states you have selected to follow.
• Citations: If you are tracking specific legal codes, the system will recommend bills that reference those citations.

When a bill is recommended, you can see which of your keywords it matched in the Matched Keywords column, helping you understand exactly why it was suggested.

Understanding Bill Statuses Like Introduced

Bills go through many stages in the legislative process. Introduced is one of the very first steps, meaning a bill has been formally presented to a legislative chamber for consideration.

Our recommendation system finds bills that match your keywords regardless of their current status. This means you'll see newly Introduced bills alongside others that may be further along in the process, ensuring you never miss important legislation from the moment it appears.

How We Rank Your Recommendations

For Enterprise users, we add another layer of intelligence. After finding bills that match your keywords, our system analyzes them to provide a Relevancy Score. This score helps you quickly identify which bills are most likely to be significant to your work, allowing you to focus on what matters most.

Your Personalized Bill Feed

Think of your recommendations as a constantly updated feed built just for you. By setting your keywords and states, you tell our system what to look for, and it delivers a curated list of relevant bills. If you ever see a bill that isn't relevant, you can use the Remove action to hide it and further refine your future recommendations.