Changelog
What changed, and when
Data changes are product changes here, so they are recorded in public. Every entry names something specific that moved, including the corrections. A changelog that only ever reports improvements is not a record of anything.
Last updated 18 August 2026
The whole back catalogue was rebuilt, and the corrections it carried are gone
Every published issue was regenerated from the corrected record, so the correction notices fifty of them had carried since 12 August are gone.
Every issue now says who published it
Issues now open with a masthead and close with a line naming the tracker, so the PDF a client is forwarded no longer arrives anonymous.
Regulatory Watch now has a register behind every issue
September 2025 through April 2026 of the Federal Register was read and classified, around 20,000 documents, so no issue now says federal coverage is unavailable.
A report could cite a rule published after it
Federal documents are now bounded by the issue’s own month, so a September 2025 issue can no longer open with a rule published in May 2026.
Every published issue now carries a correction where the status changed
Each of the fifty published issues gained a dated correction naming the bills whose status the record now shows differently, added when the issue is served rather than by editing the stored document.
Bills signed by a governor no longer read “Dead”
A failure now ends a bill only when nothing afterwards carries it further, correcting 28,198 bills across all 51 jurisdictions, 1,530 of which read Dead while carrying a governor’s signature.
Committee referrals read from the whole action
Every label on an action is now read rather than only the first, correcting 23,133 bills that were sitting in committee while listed as merely introduced, and 1,872 that had passed a chamber.
Regulatory Watch leads with open comment windows
The section now opens with comment windows still open when the issue publishes, then rules taking effect, then the month’s publications, so a May rule closing in September appears in September where it is useful.
Executive orders are now read
The Federal Register publishes no summary for Presidential Documents, so the text of the roughly 25 executive orders a month is now read directly rather than left unclassified.
Cannabis tracker added
A sixth practice area covering licensing, intoxicating hemp, testing and labelling, social equity, impaired driving and banking access, and the largest tracker by matched volume.
Scoring now accounts for bill length
Scores are now adjusted for bill length, which had let a 60-section bill reach the threshold at fourteen times the rate of a one-section bill, raising precision across the six trackers from 0.656 to 0.786 on a judged sample with no tracker getting worse.
Intellectual property scope corrected
The profile now names what the tracker protects, a person’s name, voice, image and likeness, an employer’s trade secrets and marks in trade, removing all seventeen Illinois income-tax bills it had been matching.
Report archive opened
Every issue past its quarter gate is now listed and linked in one place, instead of existing at a URL nobody could find.
Corpus extended to 51 jurisdictions
All remaining state legislatures were imported, taking the corpus to every state, the District of Columbia and Congress, at a depth that still varies by state.
Children’s online safety tracker added
A fifth practice area covering age verification and age assurance, age-appropriate design codes, engagement design on minor accounts, app store accountability and parental consent.
Effective date calendar
An absolute effective date stated in an enacted bill’s own text is now extracted and reported, agreeing with the Texas Legislature’s published lists on 789 of 789.
Texas bill text imported
Texas held 12,788 bills with no text at all, every one matched on its title alone, and text read from the Legislature’s bulk archive now covers 98.8% of them.
Regulatory Watch
Federal rulemaking on each tracker’s subject, read from the Federal Register, led by open comment deadlines and classified document by document rather than by similarity score.
News matching removed
The layer matching news articles to practice areas was withdrawn from every surface, because it rested on headline-only analysis with nothing corroborating it.
How the data is built
Most entries here are corrections, and they are only meaningful against the method that produced them. The methodology page states how bills are selected, where the data comes from, exactly which jurisdictions are covered today, and what is deliberately out of scope.
Read the methodology