BillTrack50 Help Center
Filtering Bills
Help with using bill types, progress categories, the session timeline, committees and bill sponsors to filter your searches.
- Blog Post
- Estimated Read Time 4:00
- Getting Started
Bill Type Definitions
An explanation of the bill types on the Query tab.
- Blog Post
- Estimated Read Time 3:15
- Getting Started
Meet the Bill Progress Categories
An explanation of the bill progress categories on the query tab.
- Blog Post
- Estimated Read Time 1:31
- Intermediate
How to Search or Filter By Committee
An explanation of how to find bills that have been sent to a specific committee, or filter a bill search to just include those bills.
- Video
- Estimated Watch Time 4:40
- Intermediate
How to Filter a Search by Committee
A demonstration of how to filter the bills on a bill sheet by a broad committee category or specific committees.
- Blog Post
- Intermediate
How Legislative Sessions Work
An explanation of how the states organize their sessions and how that affects searching using the timeline.
- Blog Post
- Estimated Read Time 2:45
- Intermediate
Filter Your Bill Sheet by Session
An explanation of how to use a template and then filter to identify bills from a specific session.
- Blog Post
- Estimated Read Time 2:04
- Getting Started
How to Search For Bills From A Previous Session
An explanation of how to use the timeline to search for bills from previous years.
- Video
- Estimated Watch Time 2:52
- Intermediate
How to Search for Bills from A Previous Session
A demonstration of how to use the timeline to search for bills from previous years.
- Blog Post
- Estimated Read Time 2:52
- Advanced
Managing Prefiled Bills Using the Timeline
An explanation of how to filter out prefiled bills or just select them using the filter timeline.
- Video
- Estimated Watch Time 4:44
- Intermediate
Managing Prefiled Bills Using the Timeline
A demonstration of how to use the timeline to manage prefile bills before the start of a new session.
- Video
- Estimated Watch Time 1:54
- Intermediate
Handling Special Sessions
A demonstration showing how to modify your bill sheet to add a column showing which session a bill is associated with, so that you can tell special session bills, regular session bills, and pre-filed bills apart.