# US Legislation & Bill Tracker — Congress Data API (`nexgendata/us-legislation-bill-tracker`) Actor

Track US federal legislation from official Congress data — bills by topic, keyword, sponsor, or status, with sponsor party/state, timeline, and enacted-law numbers. For lobbying, public affairs, legal, and policy research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/us-legislation-bill-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$100.00 / 1,000 bill records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## US Legislation & Bill Tracker

Track US federal legislation — bills, chambers, status and history from Congress data.

> Factual public records — assembled for research and monitoring.

### ⏰ Run this as a monitoring subscription (recommended)

Regulatory data is monitoring data. Schedule a weekly sweep (`0 8 * * 1`) and catch new bills as they post — an always-on official-records feed.

### 📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per bill (full output has 18 fields):

- `bill_number` — Bill number
- `title` — Title
- `congress` — Congress
- `bill_type` — Bill type
- `chamber` — Chamber
- `status` — Status
- `status_label` — Status label
- `status_date` — Status date
- `introduced_date` — Introduced date
- `is_alive` — Is alive

**Pricing:** $0.100 per bill (Pay-Per-Event) — about **10 bills per $1**.

### 🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and pull official records on demand.

**Agentic payments (x402):** Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

### 🔗 Related regulatory actors

**Regulatory & enforcement records:**

[UK FCA Notices](https://apify.com/nexgendata/uk-fca-enforcement-tracker) · [UK FCA Register](https://apify.com/nexgendata/uk-fca-enforcement-register) · [EPA ECHO](https://apify.com/nexgendata/epa-echo-enforcement-scraper) · [EPA TRI](https://apify.com/nexgendata/epa-tri-toxic-release-facilities) · [FEMA NFIP](https://apify.com/nexgendata/openfema-nfip-flood-claims) · [CFPB Complaints](https://apify.com/nexgendata/cfpb-consumer-complaints-scraper) · [CFPB HMDA](https://apify.com/nexgendata/cfpb-hmda-mortgage-lender-disparity-tracker)

**Related:** [SAM.gov Exclusions](https://apify.com/nexgendata/sam-gov-federal-contractor-exclusions)

## *This actor is currently private — treated and ready for review.*

*Public official records and enforcement data, assembled for research and monitoring.*

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Full-text search across bills (e.g. 'artificial intelligence', 'crypto', a company or topic). Leave empty for all recent bills.

## `congress` (type: `integer`):

Congress session to search (e.g. 119 = 2025-2026). Empty = all.

## `status` (type: `string`):

Filter by current status code (e.g. introduced, referred, passed\_house, enacted\_signed). Empty = all.

## `alive_only` (type: `boolean`):

Only return bills still alive in the legislative process.

## `sponsor_id` (type: `integer`):

GovTrack sponsor (legislator) ID to filter by. Empty = all.

## `max_results` (type: `integer`):

Maximum bills to return.

## `include_raw` (type: `boolean`):

Attach the raw GovTrack record.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "alive_only": false,
  "max_results": 25,
  "include_raw": false
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "artificial intelligence",
    "max_results": 25
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/us-legislation-bill-tracker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "query": "artificial intelligence",
    "max_results": 25,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgendata/us-legislation-bill-tracker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "max_results": 25
}' |
apify call nexgendata/us-legislation-bill-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgendata/us-legislation-bill-tracker",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/IeuhWjyOHlVusceAN/builds/UvEafi6h9PVbDG0Rz/openapi.json