Bills

Get a bill

GET/v1/bills/{billId}All plans

The record behind a bill page: title, sponsor, status, latest action, policy area and links. Start here, then follow the sub-resources you need.

curl "https://api.thelobbynews.com/v1/bills/119-hr-6644" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer lobby_live_..."

Response 200

{
  "billId": "119-hr-6644",
  "congress": 119,
  "type": "HR",
  "number": 6644,
  "title": "21st Century ROAD to Housing Act",
  "originChamber": "House",
  "introducedDate": "2025-12-11",
  "latestAction": {
    "date": "2026-07-11",
    "text": "Became Public Law No: 119-101."
  },
  "policyArea": "Housing and Community Development",
  "sponsor": {
    "bioguideId": "H001072",
    "name": "J. French Hill",
    "party": "Republican",
    "state": "AR",
    "district": 2
  },
  "publicLaws": [
    "119-101"
  ],
  "updateDate": "2026-10-26T13:02:08.000Z",
  "webUrl": "https://thelobbynews.com/congress/bills/119/house-bill/6644",
  "counts": {
    "actions": 69,
    "cosponsors": 31,
    "textVersions": 8,
    "committees": 6,
    "subjects": 23
  },
  "freshness": {
    "source": "congress.gov",
    "sourceUpdatedAt": "2026-10-26T13:02:08.000Z",
    "fetchedAt": "2026-10-27T06:06:55.371Z"
  }
}

A real response.

Path parameters

Name	Description
billIdrequiredstring	Congress, type and number, e.g. 119-hr-1234.

Response

Field	Description
billIdstring	Congress, type and number: 119-hr-1234.
congressinteger
typestring	HR, S, HJRES, SJRES, HRES, SRES, HCONRES or SCONRES.
numberinteger
titlestring
originChamberstring \| null
introducedDatestring \| null
latestActionLatestAction \| null
latestAction.datestring \| null
latestAction.textstring
policyAreastring \| null
sponsorMemberRef \| null
sponsor.bioguideIdstring
sponsor.namestring
sponsor.partystring \| null
sponsor.statestring \| null
sponsor.districtinteger \| null
publicLawsstring[]	Public law numbers, e.g. 119-21. Empty unless enacted.
updateDatestring \| null	Congress.gov's last update to the bill record.
webUrlstring
countsobject
counts.actionsinteger
counts.cosponsorsinteger
counts.textVersionsinteger
counts.committeesinteger
counts.subjectsinteger
freshnessFreshness
freshness.sourcestring
freshness.sourceUpdatedAtstring \| null	When Congress.gov last changed this record, by its own updateDate.
freshness.fetchedAtstring \| null	When we last fetched it from Congress.gov.