What’s New We’ve been hard at work adding new tools and features to CapitolTrack this break. Find what you might have missed on the What’s New page by clicking on your Username at the top-right of the page: Web Reports, Formats and Links Use this Fall to switch to the new version of CapitolTrack and ensure all your reports’ formats and web links are ready for session. If you’d like to…
Category Archives: Tip of the Week
Vote Scorecards
Vote Scorecards With the Legislature on break and the Governor’s desk clear of bills, now’s the best time for an analysis of the 2025 session. Try the Vote Scorecards format in CapitolTrack Version 3.5. Easily find the Members who voted with your interests and those who did not. Run a Vote Scorecard by following these steps: (or watch the video!) Mark each measure by which you’d like Members scored on the Tracking Form….
Political Calendar Feed
Political Calendar Feed Find a new feature just above the Political Calendar. A filterable Calendar Feed allows you to choose which parts of the Political Calendar you would like to feed to an external calendar like Outlook: Choose the item from the Political Calendar you would like to feed to your personal calendar and click, ‘Copy Feed Link to Clipboard.’ The dropdown menu allows the following choices: All items on the…
Introducing LocalTrack
Try LocalTrack You may have noticed a new feature added to CapitolTrack. We’re proud to introduce LocalTrack; Search local agendas and set email alerts to notify you when a topic of interest is mentioned! Add LocalTrack to your account today and search a repository of local agendas for topics of interest. Save your searches to begin receiving emails notifying you of agendas which mention your search terms and phrases. Manage the…
May and June Deadline Graphs
Deadline Comparison Graphs With the recent collection of deadlines requiring bills be out of their Policy Committees, Fiscal Committees and House of Origin, here’s a collection of how all the bills which failed these deadlines compare to past sessions: Last Friday brought Deadline 61(a)(8) which requires all bills be out of their House of Origin. Eleven bills failed this year’s deadline while 18 bills failed this same deadline in 2023 and…
May Revise
The Governor’s May Revise This time of year the Governor is reviewing the Budget and making updates and proposals. Yesterday, he published the May Revision 2025-26 Budget Summary. BudgetTrack users had this document at 10:50 am, yesterday. Did you get your copy? Sign up for a 2-week free trial of BudgetTrack, click ‘Register’ at the bottom of the page!
May 2nd Deadline
May 2nd Deadline Last Friday, May 2nd brought the first Legislative Deadline for the 2025-26 session. J.R. 61(a)(2) requires all Fiscal Bills move on to Appropriations. Any Fiscal Bills remaining in their policy committees were marked 2-Year in CapitolTrack and may not be heard again until January of 2026. 280 Bills failed to pass the deadline this year while 319 Bills failed this same deadline in 2023 and 423 Bills failed…
Mentions and Member Pages
New Member Page Check out our new, shiny Member pages! They continue to show all the great information you need, in a sleek new format; Including Navigation to Committees, Staff, Authored Bills and a new feature making its debut, Mentions: Find State Affairs articles referencing the Author under the Mentions section! State Affairs journalism is exclusive to CapitolTrack and can be found under the News tab. Articles referencing Bills or Authors…
Appropriations Deadline
Appropriations Deadlines Friday, May 23rd was the last day for bills to remain in their first house fiscal committees. The big Appropriations deadline has passed and all bills which failed have been marked 2-Year in CapitolTrack. Here’s how the numbers compare to past sessions: 337 bills failed last Friday’s deadline while 306 bills failed this same deadline in 2023 and 213 failed in 2021. To control for our totals, this represents…
Legislative Deadlines
Deadlines are Coming Friday, May 2nd brings our first major Legislative Deadline of the 2025-26 Session. Since these deadlines drive the California Legislature, CapitolTrack provides several tools and nuances to help you navigate this crucial process. Tomorrow’s deadline requires all Fiscal Bills to be out of their Policy Committees and move on to Appropriations. Here’s how Deadlines are managed in CapitolTrack: Bills which fail a deadline in the first year of…