We had a great year 2014 at BillTrack50. Over 4.2 million bills were served on our site, and we surpassed 10,000 registered users. We are thrilled to be able to inform so many people about topics they care about. Speaking of topics people care about, the top search terms were similar this year to last year:
Thanks, as always to http://www.wordle.net/ for the great word cloud tool.
The top five bills read this year are an interesting collection, some fun, some serious:
SC H4482 – Official State Fossil
HI SB3066 – Public-private Finance Initiative; Pilot Project; Appropriation ($)
CA AB1576 – Occupational safety and health: adult films.
HI SB2487 – Small Business Regulatory Review Board; Office of Small Business Regulatory Review; Director; Annual Report
WV SB379 – Reclassifying counties
Thank you particularly to Quena, Katie, and Matthew for reading the most bills of any of our users. Your diligence for your causes is impressive!
The bills being read were distributed pretty evenly across the country, with just a few states getting a little more attention. Here’s the top 10:
Our users are also pretty geographically spread out. Hi users! Thank you for dropping by!
Of course we also provide legislator information. The top 5 legislators our users looked at this year were:
Darrell E. Issa – (R) United States
Lee M. Zeldin – (R) New York
Fran J. Pavley – (D) California
Rudy Salas – (D) California
Henry T. Perea – (D) California
If you are curious how this year compares to last year, here is our wrap up for 2013.
About BillTrack50 – BillTrack50 is a user friendly free service that provides legislation research in all 50 states and federally. BillTrack50 also offers legislation and regulation tracking across the nation with tools to help organization stay on top of changes (bill sheets and alerts) and share legislation they are tracking with key stakeholders (legislator scorecards, widgets and stakeholder pages). If you are interested in learning more about how BillTrack50 saves organizations time and money, sign up for a demo and try it out BillTrack50 Pro for a month, for free.