Congress Bills Tracker: Recent US Bills and Status

Congress bills tracker: recently updated US Congress bills and resolutions from the free GovInfo bulk data, one row each with sponsor, party and state, latest action, plain-English status, policy area, subjects, cosponsor count and the congress.gov link. No API key.

Pull recently updated US Congress bills and resolutions into a clean table. Each row has the bill number and type, congress, title, sponsor with party and state, introduced date, latest action and its date, a plain-English status, policy area, legislative subjects, cosponsor count, lead committee and the congress.gov link. Data comes from the free public GovInfo bulk BILLSTATUS files. No login, no API key, no proxy, no personal data beyond the public officials named as sponsors.

What is Congress Bills Tracker: Recent US Bills and Status?

Track recently updated US Congress bills and resolutions from the free GovInfo bulk data: sponsor, latest action, status, policy area, subjects, cosponsor count, committee and congress.gov link. No login, no API key, no proxy. Run it from the Apify Console, the API or a schedule, and export the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

Output

One row per bill or resolution:

Field	Meaning
billId, billLabel, billType, billNumber, congress	Identity of the bill, for example 119-HR-1.
title, shortTitle	Official title and short title where one exists.
sponsor, sponsorParty, sponsorState	The sponsoring member of Congress (public official).
introducedDate, latestActionDate	Key dates in ISO format.
latestAction, daysSinceLatestAction	Latest recorded action and its age in days.
status	Introduced, In committee, Reported by committee, Passed House, Passed Senate, Passed both chambers, Sent to President, Vetoed or Became law. Derived from the recorded actions.
publicLawNumber	Public law number when enacted.
policyArea, subjects	Library of Congress policy area and legislative subjects.
cosponsorCount	Number of cosponsors.
committee, committees	First listed committee and all listed committees.
url	Link to the bill on congress.gov.
scrapedAt	When the run read the data.

Sample output

{
  "billId": "119-HR-1",
  "billLabel": "H.R. 1",
  "congress": 119,
  "title": "An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.",
  "sponsor": "Rep. Arrington, Jodey C. [R-TX-19]",
  "introducedDate": "2025-05-20",
  "latestActionDate": "2025-07-04",
  "latestAction": "Became Public Law No: 119-21.",
  "status": "Became law",
  "policyArea": "Economics and Public Finance",
  "cosponsorCount": 1,
  "committee": "Budget Committee",
  "url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1"
}

Input

Field	What it does
congress	Congress number, 113 or later. Default 119.
billTypes	hr, s, hjres, sjres, hconres, sconres, hres, sres. Default hr and s.
keyword	Optional. Every word must appear in the title, latest action, policy area, sponsor or subjects.
policyArea	Optional official policy area, for example Health or Taxation.
status	Optional status text, for example Passed House or Became law.
sinceDate	Optional YYYY-MM-DD. Keeps bills whose latest action is on or after this date.
minCosponsors	Optional minimum number of cosponsors.
maxItems	Stop after this many rows (most recent action first). Default 100.

Sample input:

{
  "congress": 119,
  "billTypes": ["hr", "s"],
  "policyArea": "Health",
  "sinceDate": "2026-09-01",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Pricing

Pay per event. You pay a small fixed amount per bill row delivered, listed on the Pricing tab, plus a tiny start fee per run. You can set a maximum cost per run in the run options.

What does this Actor do?

It lists the BILLSTATUS XML files for the Congress and bill types you choose on govinfo.gov/bulkdata, reads the most recently updated bills first, and turns each file into one flat row. By default it returns the 100 most recently updated House and Senate bills of the 119th Congress. You can narrow by keyword, policy area, status, latest-action date and minimum cosponsors. The actor reports what the official record says. It does not give legal or political advice.

Run in 30 seconds

1. Open the Actor and press Try for free (a free Apify account is enough).
2. Keep the prefilled input (Congress 119, House and Senate bills) and press Start. A run takes about a minute.
3. Open the Output tab. Use the table view or download CSV, Excel or JSON.

Use cases

• Send government-affairs, compliance or lobbying teams a weekly list of bills that moved in their policy area, with the latest action and sponsor.
• Build a legislative tracker, newsletter or dashboard that shows what passed a chamber, what is in committee and which bills have broad cosponsor support.
• Feed journalists, researchers and civic groups a dataset of bills by topic, sponsor party and state for analysis in a spreadsheet, notebook or BI tool.
• Watch a keyword such as "artificial intelligence" or "drug pricing" and push matches into Slack, email or a ticket system with n8n, Make or Zapier.

How rows are chosen

GovInfo publishes one file per bill. The actor sorts the files by when GovInfo last updated them, reads the newest ones and then applies your filters, so the default run is the most recently active legislation. Filters that need the content of the bill (keyword, policy area, status) read up to about 2,500 recent files per run. Sorting in the output is by latest action date, newest first.

Limits

• Covers bills and resolutions in the BILLSTATUS collection (Congress 113 and later). Amendments, nominations and treaties are not included.
• The status is a plain-English reading of the recorded actions, not an official field.
• This is information, not legal advice.

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Found a bug or need a field? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the run URL.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? GovInfo refreshes the bulk files about daily, typically within a day of the action being recorded.

Why do I get fewer rows than maxItems? Only bills matching your filters exist in the recent files that were read. Try an earlier sinceDate, a different Congress or fewer filters.

Is this an official government product? No. It is an independent tool that reads the public GovInfo bulk data. Check congress.gov for the authoritative record.

This Actor vs ponderable_hydrometer/congress-gov-scraper: that one also returns enacted laws and members, and you bring your own free api.data.gov key. Choose this one if you want recent bill status rows with no API key to set up.

Changelog

• 2026-10-25: Documentation updated: README refreshed.
• 2026-10-25: Initial release.
• 2026-10-25: Listing refresh: new Store icon, README reorganised (overview, data fields, pricing, FAQ) and changelog tab added. No code change.