Terms of use
The deal, in plain words
BillTracking republishes the official legislative record of the US Congress and the European Union. It is free, there is nothing to buy, and it is run by one person, not a company. These terms are short because the arrangement is simple.
What this is
What you're getting
Automated feeds and an app that report steps in the legislative process, taken from official sources — Congress.gov, the European Parliament's open data, the Publications Office and the OEIL Legislative Observatory. Plain-English summaries are AI-written and labelled [AI-Generated]. Procedural facts, dates and vote tallies are copied from the record and are not AI-written.
This is not legal advice, and it is not the official record. It is a convenience layer over public sources. Every post links to its source. If a decision matters — legally, professionally, financially — read the source, not us.
It will contain errors
Automatically classifying legislative stages is genuinely difficult, and the record itself is sometimes amended after the fact. We do not promise accuracy; we promise that errors are corrected in the open and logged publicly. See Accuracy & corrections, and please report anything that looks wrong to accuracy@billtracking.org.
No guarantee it keeps running
It is a free service run by one person on free infrastructure. It may be interrupted, delayed, or discontinued. If an upstream source changes or goes down, the feeds may go quiet. Please do not build anything you depend on around its continued availability without talking to us first.
Accounts and voting
If you sign in and vote
- Reading never requires an account. An account exists so that a vote on a bill counts once per person.
- One account per person. Do not create multiple accounts to vote more than once, and do not use automated means to influence the counts. It corrupts the only thing the counts are for.
- Votes are reader sentiment, not a poll. They are a show of hands among whoever happens to use this app — self-selected, unweighted and unrepresentative. Please do not present them as public opinion research, and be careful citing them as anything more than what they are.
- You may withdraw a vote or delete your account at any time, from the You tab or via the deletion page.
- We may remove votes we believe are automated or duplicated, and may suspend an account doing it.
How votes are stored and published is set out on the privacy page. In short: who voted which way is never published, shown or attached to a profile.
Using our stuff, and us using yours
Content and reuse
The underlying legislative record is public and is not ours. US federal government works are not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. § 105); EU documents are reusable under the European Commission's reuse decision and the European Parliament's reuse notice. Where you need the authoritative version, go to api.congress.gov, the OEIL Legislative Observatory, or the EU Publications Office directly.
Our own writing, design and code are ours. Teachers and students: use it. Quote it, screenshot it, put it in a lecture, build a class exercise on it — that is what it is for, and there is a page of ready-made exercises. A credit and a link is all we ask. If you want a bulk dataset, write to us rather than scraping.
Do not use the service to break the law, to attack the infrastructure, or to misrepresent what it says.
The legal bit
Liability, and your rights
The service is provided as-is. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for losses arising from your use of it — including decisions taken on the basis of a post that turned out to be wrong or late.
What we do not exclude, because it cannot be and should not be: liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for damage caused intentionally, and any liability that the law of your country does not permit to be excluded. If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, nothing here takes away rights you have under your own national law, including the right to bring a claim in your own courts.
We may update these terms. If we change something that matters we will say so on this page and update the date. If you keep using the service after a change, that is acceptance; if you would rather not, you can stop, and delete your account.
Contact
BillTracking is an independent project run by one person, not a company. Reach us at contact@billtracking.org; a postal address is available on request.
Last updated 20 July 2026.