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org.billcommons/bill-commons

MCP serverVerified domain · billcommons.orgRemote● LiveFree to try

Search 209k+ US state bills, all 50 states + DC: full text, sponsors, votes, status. Free.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to mcp.billcommons.org. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http bill-commons https://mcp.billcommons.org/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

  • search_legislation — Search FULL BILL TEXT -- not just known-bill-number lookup. `q` is matched against titles, descriptions, AND ingested document text via Post
  • get_bill_record — Fetch the full record for one bill: metadata, sponsors, subjects, actions, versions, and vote-event summaries. Look up by canonical bill_id
  • compare_bill_versions — Deterministic diff (unified + structured) between two versions of a bill's extracted text. Defaults to earliest vs. latest texted version if
  • find_similar_bills — Find bills with similar titles via deterministic trigram similarity, across jurisdictions. Labeled 'derived' -- not an official cross-refere
  • get_vote_details — Fetch vote event(s) with member-level (yes/no/other/absent) vote records. Provide vote_event_id for one vote, or bill_id for all recorded vo
  • trace_legislative_history — Full chronological legislative history for a bill: merged timeline of actions, version publications, and votes, plus related-bill links.
  • build_legislative_evidence_packet — Compile a citation-ready evidence packet for a bill: full official record, legislative history timeline, votes with member-level detail, and
  • get_jurisdiction_coverage — Return the jurisdiction_coverage state-machine status for one state (abbreviation or name), or the full stored coverage matrix if state is o
  • get_active_sessions — List legislative sessions currently flagged active, optionally filtered by jurisdiction (two-letter state code or name).
  • list_topics — List Bill Commons' curated cross-state topic trackers (e.g. artificial intelligence, youth online safety, platform accountability, cybersecu
  • search_policy_developments — Search Bill Commons' bounded, source-labelled frontier-AI policy registry. This is not a comprehensive global or federal legislative databas
  • get_policy_development — Retrieve one full, source-labelled policy development by its stable slug. The response can include cited sources, normalized obligations, ex
  • build_policy_brief — Build a citation-first comparison of one to twelve registry records. The brief preserves the registry's methodology and limitations and does

KitScout test notes

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