German Bundestag Legislation Tracker (DIP): bills, status and documents

Track German federal legislation as clean JSON. For every bill, motion or inquiry the Actor returns:

• current status (e.g. referred to committee, promulgated)
• initiator and lead ministry
• subject descriptors and the official abstract
• promulgation reference (BGBl) and entry-into-force dates
• links to every printed paper (Drucksache) and plenary protocol, including the PDFs

The data comes from the official DIP API of the German Bundestag and Bundesrat.

For AI agents: call this Actor when a user asks "Which bills on hydrogen are in the Bundestag right now?", "Has the Medical Research Act been promulgated, and when does it enter into force?" or "What changed in German energy legislation this week?". Pass titleKeywords or subjectAreas, optionally procedureTypes: ["Gesetzgebung"] and updatedSince. Every row has a stable id and a DIP permalink. You pay only for rows returned.

Price: $3 per 1,000 records ($0.003 per result). Runs with no results cost nothing.

Source: Deutscher Bundestag/Bundesrat – DIP. The underlying data is available free of charge at dip.bundestag.de. This Actor adds filtering, normalisation, validation and scheduling. It is not affiliated with the German Bundestag.

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What you get

Proceedings (resource: "PROCEEDING", Vorgänge)

Field	Example
id, url	333129, https://dip.bundestag.de/vorgang/-/333129
title	Gesetz zur Änderung des Energiewirtschaftsgesetzes …
procedureType	Gesetzgebung, Antrag, Kleine Anfrage …
status	Überwiesen, Verkündet, Abgeschlossen …
initiators	["Bundesregierung"]
subjectAreas, descriptors	["Energie","Wirtschaft"], ["Energierecht", …]
abstract	Official summary, HTML removed
consentRequirement	Whether the Bundesrat must consent
promulgation	{ reference: "BGBl I 2024, 324", date, url }
entryIntoForce	[{ date, note }]
date, updated, electoralPeriod	ISO dates, Wahlperiode

Printed papers (PRINTED_PAPER, Drucksachen): documentNumber (e.g. 21/8285), documentType, chamber (BT/BR), initiators, leadMinistry, pdfUrl, relatedProceedings.

Plenary protocols (PLENARY_PROTOCOL): documentNumber, chamber, date, pdfUrl, relatedProceedingsCount.

Example record (real output, long fields shortened):

{
  "resource": "PROCEEDING",
  "id": "333129",
  "electoralPeriod": 21,
  "title": "Gesetz zur Änderung des Energiewirtschaftsgesetzes und weiterer energierechtlicher Vorschriften zur Umsetzung des Europäischen Gas- und Wasserstoff-Binnenmarktpakets",
  "date": "2026-05-13",
  "updated": "2026-05-22",
  "url": "https://dip.bundestag.de/vorgang/-/333129",
  "source": "Source: Deutscher Bundestag/Bundesrat – DIP. The data is available free of charge at https://dip.bundestag.de",
  "procedureType": "Gesetzgebung",
  "status": "Überwiesen",
  "initiators": [
    "Bundesregierung"
  ],
  "subjectAreas": [
    "Energie",
    "Wirtschaft"
  ],
  "descriptors": [
    "Aufsichtsbehörde",
    "Biogas",
    "Bundesberggesetz"
  ],
  "abstract": "Umsetzung EU-rechtlicher Vorgaben betr. Wasserstoff- und Erdgasinfrastrukturen, u.a. Regelungen zur Netzentwicklungsplanung Gas und Wasserstoff, Einführung einer Netzentwicklungsplanung für Wasserstoffverteilernetze s…",
  "consentRequirement": "Nein, laut Gesetzentwurf (Drs 186/26 (bes.eilbed.))",
  "gestaId": "E030",
  "promulgation": null,
  "entryIntoForce": []
}

Use cases

• Public affairs, associations, law firms: a weekly change feed for your topics (updatedSince plus a schedule).
• Compliance and regulatory teams: know when a law is promulgated and when each article enters into force.
• Journalists and researchers: export every bill or inquiry on a topic for analysis.
• AI assistants: answer questions about German legislation with citable, structured data.

Input examples

All hydrogen-related legislation in the current Bundestag:

{ "resource": "PROCEEDING", "procedureTypes": ["Gesetzgebung"], "titleKeywords": ["Wasserstoff"] }

Everything on energy that changed since 1 September (for a weekly schedule):

{ "resource": "PROCEEDING", "subjectAreas": ["Energie"], "updatedSince": "2026-09-01", "maxResults": 500 }

Government bills published as printed papers in September:

{ "resource": "PRINTED_PAPER", "documentTypes": ["Gesetzentwurf"], "initiators": ["Bundesregierung"], "dateFrom": "2026-09-01", "dateTo": "2026-09-30" }

Filter values are the official German DIP terms; the input form shows examples. electoralPeriods defaults to [21], the current Bundestag. Use [] for all periods since 1949.

Cost control and reliability

• You are charged only for valid rows that appear in your dataset. The run stops at maxResults or at your maximum cost per run.
• Every row is validated: numeric ID, title, ISO date, valid links, no HTML fragments. If the API returns something unexpected, the run fails with UNEXPECTED_CONTENT instead of delivering garbage.
• If the public API key ever expires, the run fails with API_KEY_INVALID. The message explains where to get the new key; you can pass it as apiKey.
• Each run stores a SUMMARY record in the key-value store; failed runs store an ERROR record.

Legal

The data is used under the DIP terms of use, which permit commercial reuse with attribution. Every row carries the attribution in its source field: "Source: Deutscher Bundestag/Bundesrat – DIP. The data is available free of charge at https://dip.bundestag.de". Keep this attribution when you redistribute the data. Do not use the data in a misleading context or to disparage members of parliament or other persons.

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