Category Archives: Tip of the Week

Code Section Compare      The 2023-24 Session wrapped up over the weekend with hundreds of Bills being signed into law. While the Extraordinary Session 2 is still underway, here is a recap of all the Code Sections impacted by new laws in 2024:      Find more details of the above graph and the measures creating these new laws using the California Law Code Index under CTAnalyze. This Index lists all new code sections…

Historical Reports      Take a look at our latest feature! Under CTAnalyze, find the Report History link and use this page to pick a recent date and report. The report we produce will be a snapshot of how CapitolTrack reports looked on that day: Choose from six reports we have available: All Bills Daily Amendments Daily Calendar Daily ECV Daily Introduced Yesterdays Actions      Click ‘View Report’ and the chosen report will populate…

<!– ContributionTrack Events      Do you have all 189 events on your calendar of fundraisers? Demo ContribtuionTrack today to see our calendar and a calendar feed of all state-wide fundraising events! That’s right – import a calendar feed to your Outlook or Google calendar and all new events will be added and updated within your own calendar: With Appropriations Around the Corner, Don’t Foget the Passed-Thru Filter:      The Passed-Thru filter can be…

<!– Password Help      Did you forget your login over break? Clear your cookies and it’s not being remembered anymore? Maybe you have a new computer and you haven’t needed to type it in manually in a while. Reset your password right on the login screen for CapitolTrack version 3.5:      Clicking ‘Forgot password’ will send you an email to verify who you are, and then a second email to reset your password…

July 3rd Deadline Graphs Deadline Review:      July 3rd brought another deadline; J.R. 61(b)(13) which requires all bills to be out of their policy committees and move to fiscal committees or the floor. The bills which failed to advance  were marked Dead in CapitolTrack. Here’s how last Wednesday’s deadline compares with the same deadline from 2022 and 2020:     143 bills failed this deadline as compared to 187 in 2022 and 144 bills…

  Subject and Budget Calendars      The CapitolTrack Calendar has options to include both Floor and Committee hearings. In the same way, include Subject and Budget items alongside the measures which are set for hearing. Select ‘Subject Budget’ when setting the Format to Calendar to include these events:      Review all the hearings which don’t feature votes alongside your Committee and Floor calendar events, or keep a separate calendar report of only Subject…

New Location Filter      Bills are moving quickly through their second house with twelve hundred bills set for hearing in the Assembly and Senate Daily Files. As committees meet and pass bills to Appropriations and the Floor, you’ll often be interested in the measures which were heard by a particular committee of interest. Find those measures with our new, ‘Passed-Thru’ Location Filter.      The Passed-Thru filter can be found at the bottom-right of…

Request Comments from your Colleagues      Have you tried the collaboration tool in CapitolTrack Version 3.5? It’s a great feature called Request for Comment which you can find at the bottom of every bill text.      Discuss the bill with colleagues, even those who aren’t CapitolTrack users, by sending a Request for Comment email! Fill out the email addresses and add a due date to reply. The request fields show right on the bill…

Search Analyses      Frequent committee hearings means the legislature is producing Analysis Documents at the fastest pace of the year. Search these analyses and download the resulting documents with a new tool under CTAnalyze: Analysis Search.      Search for a keyword or organization to recieve a table with the measure, location and date of the analysis, how many times your search was mentioned in each document and a button to download the file….

Sort By Text Date      As bills head to their policy committees you can bet they’ll be amended by the hundreds. It’s easy to fall behind this time of year but we can help you manage the workload! Sort your amended bills reports by Text Date to see the most recently amended text, first.      Work from the most recently amended text backward or from the past, forward. Either way, take your review…