The 2014 session is already, statistically, about halfway done. We’ve seen well over 40,000 bills introduced in the last six weeks. Seems like a good time to take a quick peek at the topics that have been interesting to our users.
To start with, here’s a word cloud of the topics that have been covered by the bills introduced in 2014 so far. Looks like previous years, more or less.
Here’s a look at the things our users are searching for:
The top ten bills read on our site so far this year, a motley assortment:
SC S0087 Life Beginning at Conception Act
SC S0457 Personhood Act of South Carolina
SC S0623 Relating To Abortions, To Enact The “south Carolina Human Heartbeat Protection Act”
VA HB133 Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; eligibility criteria.
FL H0215 Dependent Children
FL H0365 Pharmacy
MO HB1624 Designates the “high five” as the official state greeting
CO HB1013 Advanced Industries Workforce Development Program
FL H0373 Hospitals
MS SB2850 Appointments to state agency boards and commissions; shall give due regard to race and gender.
And the top five legislators that our users have been checking out this year:
Cindy Agidius – (R) Idaho
Shawn A. Keough – (R) Idaho
Robert Patrick Casey, Jr. – (D) United States – PA
J.D. Sheffield – (R) Texas
Elaine Nekritz – (D) Illinois
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