Data Sources

CivicsHQ aggregates publicly available civic and legislative data from the sources below. We normalize and present this information for easier discovery; authoritative records remain with the original publishers.

• Congress.gov

  Federal bill metadata, actions, sponsors, and legislative identifiers for U.S. Congress bills.

  U.S. Government work; see Congress.gov terms of use.

• GovInfo

  Federal bill text and legislative documents where linked from Congress.gov.

  U.S. Government work.

• Open States

  State bill and legislator data for covered U.S. states and local bodies.

  See Open States terms and data license.

• LegiScan

  State bill sync and roll-call enrichment for select jurisdictions.

  Commercial API; attribution per LegiScan license.

• U.S. House Clerk & U.S. Senate

  Official roll-call XML and member contact directories for federal legislators.

  U.S. Government work.

• U.S. Census Geocoder

  Address and ZIP geocoding for district lookup (My District, Match Score).

  U.S. Government work.

• Google Civic Information API

  Election dates, polling places, and ballot logistics where configured.

  Subject to Google API Terms of Service.

• City Scrapers

  Municipal meeting and agenda feeds for local council explorer cities.

  Open-source project; see repository license.

• ui-avatars.com

  Generated placeholder avatars when official politician photos are unavailable.

Bill summaries on CivicsHQ may be generated by automated language models from official bill text. Always verify important details on the official source linked from each bill page.