Where every fact on this site comes from
Vote Impact does not host an original legislative record. Everything factual on a bill page — text, sponsors, actions, votes, status — is retrieved from one of the providers below and linked back to its source. This page names all of them.
Last reviewed August 2026
Federal legislation
- Congress.gov
- The Library of Congress's official service for federal legislation: bill metadata, sponsors and cosponsors, official summaries, and the full action history. This is the default provenance for every federal bill, and the link on a federal bill page points here. congress.gov
- GovInfo
- The U.S. Government Publishing Office's repository, used to retrieve full bill text in its published formats when a complete document is needed for analysis. A federal analysis marked full bill text most often read a GovInfo document. govinfo.gov
State legislation
- Open States
- Bill records across all 50 state legislatures plus DC and Puerto Rico — identifiers, titles, sessions, subjects, sponsors and action history. Open States is the baseline for state coverage and the provenance shown when no fuller document was available. openstates.org
- LegiScan
- Full state bill text and supplemental documents. When a state analysis is marked full bill text or cites a state summary, the document came from LegiScan, and the link resolves to the legislature's own page for that bill wherever one is published. legiscan.com
State legislatures publish on their own schedules and in their own formats. A bill that exists in the record but has no retrievable text will still appear — with its analysis limited to what was actually available, and labelled that way.
The plain-language layer
Summaries, risk and impact scores, sector outlooks and the bill Q&A are generated by Google's Gemini models reading the source document described above. They are not retrieved from any provider and are not part of the official record.
Where no document could be retrieved at all, an analysis may fall back to a grounded reading built from metadata and public search results. That case is always labelled, always carries a low confidence band, and is the weakest thing on the site — how the bands work.
Using this data
The underlying legislative records are public. Vote Impact claims no ownership of them, and if you need the record itself, take it from the provider — every bill page links out to the original.
The plain-language summaries, scores and rubric are our own work. Quote them with attribution and a link back, the way you would any other source. If you are writing about a bill and want to check a score before you publish it, get in touch — we would rather answer the question than see the number used blind.
Reporting an error
Wrong link, wrong status, wrong summary, wrong score: report it with the bill number and what you expected to see. Errors in our layer we fix. Errors in the official record have to be corrected by the body that published it, and we will point you to the right desk.