Bills and petitions by state

Bills by state

    Arrow keys move between states. Enter opens a state's record. The table below lists the same figures.

    Shaded by bills in the legislative session we track for each state, so a 0 can mean a state is between sessions; the table names the session. Petitions aren't shaded because screening isn't finished.

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    Bills, passed bills, petitions and latest bill action for the 50 states and DC

    Source and notes

    Bills
    From LegiScan searches for patient-safety terms, checked for relevance. We follow one LegiScan session per state; when a state moves to a special or next-year session, bills from the earlier one leave these counts. “Passed” is LegiScan's own status; open a state for each bill's latest step.
    Petitions
    From Change.org searches by state name, screened for patient-safety relevance by an automated classifier. “Not screened” means most of that state's petitions haven't been checked yet. A petition can be listed under more than one state, so the state counts add up to more than the total. DC isn't searched.
    Updates
    Bills and petitions refresh every Monday.

    How this is tracked