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billcommons

https://mcp.billcommons.org

Registry code: 928b2b1138b1c01f

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Bill Commons: public, open-source legislative search for all 50 US states + DC. Tools return structured JSON with canonical ids, official source_url fields, retrieved_at freshness timestamps, and explicit official-vs-derived labeling. Coverage is uneven while ingestion is in progress -- call get_jurisdiction_coverage before relying on an empty result to mean 'no such legislation exists'.

SCOPE -- what is NOT here. Do not answer these from Bill Commons, and do not report an empty result as evidence that the legislation does not exist:

endpoint
https://mcp.billcommons.org/mcp
protocol
http-sse ·2025-06-18
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_ used through this hub 30 days

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_ what it can do 11 tools
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  • get_jurisdiction_coverage open 1h ago

    Return the jurisdiction_coverage state-machine status for one state (abbreviation or name), or the full 51-jurisdiction coverage matrix if state is omitted.

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "title": "get_jurisdiction_coverageArguments",
  "properties": {
    "state": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "title": "State",
      "default": null
    }
  }
}
    arguments 18 lines
  • get_active_sessions open 1h ago

    List legislative sessions currently flagged active, optionally filtered by jurisdiction (two-letter state code or name).

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "title": "get_active_sessionsArguments",
  "properties": {
    "jurisdiction": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "title": "Jurisdiction",
      "default": null
    }
  }
}
    arguments 18 lines
  • get_bill_record open 1h ago

    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.

    mcp-tool

    {
  "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
    }
  }
}
    arguments 59 lines
  • search_legislation unknown never probed

    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.

    mcp-tool

    {
  "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
    }
  }
}
    arguments 61 lines
  • compare_bill_versions unknown never probed

    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).

    mcp-tool

    {
  "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
    }
  }
}
    arguments 37 lines
  • find_similar_bills unknown never probed

    Find bills with similar titles via deterministic trigram similarity, across jurisdictions. Labeled 'derived' -- not an official cross-reference or companion-bill designation.

    mcp-tool

    {
  "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"
    }
  }
}
    arguments 25 lines
  • get_vote_details unknown never probed

    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.

    mcp-tool

    {
  "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
    }
  }
}
    arguments 30 lines
  • get_upcoming_hearings unknown never probed

    List upcoming (future-dated) legislative hearings/events, optionally filtered by jurisdiction and/or bill.

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "title": "get_upcoming_hearingsArguments",
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "title": "Limit",
      "default": null
    },
    "bill_id": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "title": "Bill Id",
      "default": null
    },
    "jurisdiction": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "title": "Jurisdiction",
      "default": null
    }
  }
}
    arguments 42 lines
  • trace_legislative_history unknown never probed

    Full chronological legislative history for a bill: merged timeline of actions, version publications, and votes, plus related-bill links.

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "title": "trace_legislative_historyArguments",
  "required": [
    "bill_id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "bill_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Bill Id"
    }
  }
}
    arguments 13 lines
  • build_legislative_evidence_packet unknown never probed

    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.

    mcp-tool

    {
  "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
    }
  }
}
    arguments 30 lines
  • list_topics unknown never probed

    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.

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "title": "list_topicsArguments",
  "properties": {}
}
    arguments 5 lines
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