Taiwan Legislative Yuan Monitor

Structured data access to Taiwan's Legislative Yuan (立法院) — bills, legislators, and meetings. Monitor legislative activity, track individual lawmakers, analyze party voting patterns. Powered by the open-data ly.govapi.tw API.

Why this data matters

Taiwan's Legislative Yuan is the core of its democratic process. Every bill, every legislator's record, every committee meeting is public information — but buried in government portals that are hard to query programmatically. This Actor gives you clean JSON access to:

• 145,000+ bills across all terms
• 1,650+ legislators (current + historical)
• 7,900+ meetings including committee sessions

Who this is for

Use case	User
Legal research & due diligence	Law firms tracking legislative changes affecting clients
Investigative journalism	Reporters covering lawmakers' proposal histories
Policy analysis & lobbying	Think tanks, industry associations monitoring bills
Political science research	Academics studying legislative behavior, party discipline
Civic tech	Building apps that track your representative's activity
Corporate regulatory monitoring	Compliance teams tracking sector-relevant bills

Resources & what you get

1. Bills (議案)

Every piece of proposed legislation, including:

• 議案名稱 (bill title)
• 議案狀態 (current status)
• 提案人 (proposer/sponsor)
• 提案單位/提案委員 (proposing unit or legislator)
• 最新進度日期 (latest progress date)
• 法律編號 / 法律編號:str (affected laws)
• 相關附件 (related PDFs)

2. Legislators (立委)

All legislators serving in the target term:

• 委員姓名 / 委員英文姓名 (Chinese + English names)
• 性別 (gender)
• 黨籍 / 黨團 (party + caucus)
• 選區名稱 (electoral district)
• 委員會 (committees served)
• 到職日 (start date)
• 學歷 (education)

3. Meetings (會議)

Committee and plenary session records:

• 會議種類 (meeting type)
• 委員會代號:str (committee name)
• 會期 / 會次 (session + round)
• 日期 (date)
• 會議標題 (meeting title)
• 會議資料 (related documents)

Input parameters

{
  "resource": "bills",
  "term": 11,
  "keyword": "健康",
  "party": "",
  "proposer": "",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Field	Type	Description
resource	enum	bills / legislators / meets (required)
term	int	Legislative term number (current = 11). Set 0 for no filter
keyword	string	Title keyword filter (bills: 議案名稱; legislators: 委員姓名; meets: 會議標題)
party	string	Party filter for legislators (e.g., 民主進步黨, 中國國民黨, 台灣民眾黨)
proposer	string	Filter bills by proposer name
maxResults	int	Max records to return (0 = unlimited)

Output examples

Bills query — Bills containing "健康" in term 11:

{
  "屆": 11,
  "議案編號": "202110200590000",
  "議案名稱": "全民健康保險法部分條文修正草案",
  "提案人": "王鴻薇",
  "議案狀態": "交付審查",
  "最新進度日期": "2026-03-15",
  "法律編號:str": ["全民健康保險法"],
  "相關附件": [{"網址": "https://ppg.ly.gov.tw/...", "名稱": "提案書"}],
  "_resource": "bills"
}

Legislators query — TPP legislators in current term:

{
  "屆": 11,
  "委員姓名": "黃珊珊",
  "委員英文姓名": "Huang Shan-shan",
  "性別": "女",
  "黨籍": "台灣民眾黨",
  "選區名稱": "全國不分區及僑居國外國民",
  "委員會": ["司法及法制委員會"],
  "到職日": "2024-02-01",
  "_resource": "legislators"
}

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.50 per 1,000 records. Extremely affordable for such rich B2B data.

Typical usage:

• All current-term legislators (120 records): **$0.06**
• Bills mentioning a specific law (200-500): **$0.10-0.25**
• Complete current-term bill database (10,000): **$5.00**

Common queries

"Show me all health-related bills this term"

{"resource":"bills","term":11,"keyword":"健康","maxResults":200}

"List all KMT legislators currently serving"

{"resource":"legislators","term":11,"party":"中國國民黨"}

"What has legislator X proposed?"

{"resource":"bills","proposer":"黃國昌","maxResults":500}

"Get all committee meetings in this session"

{"resource":"meets","term":11,"maxResults":1000}

Data source & license

• Source: ly.govapi.tw — community-maintained open data API
• Original data: Taiwan's Legislative Yuan public records (ppg.ly.gov.tw, data.ly.gov.tw)
• License: Public domain / open government data
• Commercial use: Permitted for journalism, research, civic tech, and policy analysis

Tips

• For time-series analysis: query the same term multiple times with keyword filters to build history
• For party comparison: pull legislators by party, then cross-reference with bills by proposer
• The API is free but please respect rate limits — this Actor adds 0.5s delay between pages

Keywords

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