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Analysis Notifications Sign up for notification emails on your favorite bills to be alerted each time they have a new status, are set for hearing, have a new version of text and now – when they get a new Analysis Document for an upcoming hearing! That’s right, notifications will now include published analysis documents. Choose the Current Analysis option when editing your reports to display links to each document next to
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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
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Introduction Deadline The deadline to introduce bills is Friday, February 20th. While both houses adopted new rules limiting Members to authoring 35 total bills for the 2025-26 session, there’s room for 1,200 more bills to be introduced through this deadline. With so much to read, CapitolTrack has tools to help! Last Review Note: That’s right, clicking the ‘Review’ button now gives a prompt to leave a short note for your colleagues!
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January Deadline Graphs The first three Legislative Deadlines of January have passed, taking with them many of the Bills from 2025 which failed to either pass their committees or out of their house of origin. Here is how these January deadlines stack up against their 2024 and 2022 counterparts: The first deadline, on January 16th required all fiscal bills in their first house be out of their policy committees – had
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Last Reviewed Note It’s bill review season and the Legislature has introduced 225 measures so far in 2026. We expect hundreds more before the February 20th Introduction Deadline. Try our latest feature Last Reviewed Notes to communicate with your colleagues! That’s right, clicking the ‘Review’ button now gives a prompt to leave a short note for your colleagues! To enable this feature, click on your username at the top right, Settings
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Back to Session Reminders We’re back to session for 2026; deadlines are looming for 1st year bills still in their house of origin and calendars are busy! Be sure you’re prepared with this short list: Enable your Scheduled Reports Set your Last Review filters Review What’s New in CapitolTrack Enable your Scheduled Reports by Clicking on your Username, then Settings and Tools and finally Scheduled Report Management. Use the left column
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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
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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.
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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
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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
