Bills

Bill amendments

GET/v1/bills/{billId}/amendmentsAll plans

Amendments offered to the bill, with sponsor, purpose and status, up to 100 a page.

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

Response 200

{
  "billId": "119-hr-6644",
  "data": [
    {
      "amendmentId": "119-samdt-5824",
      "congress": 119,
      "chamber": "Senate",
      "type": "SAMDT",
      "number": "5824",
      "purpose": "To improve the bill.",
      "description": null,
      "amendedBillId": "119-hr-6644",
      "sponsors": [
        {
          "bioguideId": "T000250",
          "name": "Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]",
          "party": "R",
          "state": "SD"
        }
      ],
      "proposedDate": "2026-06-16",
      "submittedDate": "2026-06-16",
      "status": "withdrawn",
      "latestAction": {
        "date": "2026-06-22",
        "text": "Proposed amendment SA 5824 withdrawn in Senate."
      },
      "updateDate": "2026-06-23T15:44:02.000Z"
    },
    {
      "amendmentId": "119-samdt-5823",
      "congress": 119,
      "chamber": "Senate",
      "type": "SAMDT",
      "number": "5823",
      "purpose": "In the nature of a substitute.",
      "description": null,
      "amendedBillId": "119-hr-6644",
      "sponsors": [
        {
          "bioguideId": "S001184",
          "name": "Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]",
          "party": "R",
          "state": "SC"
        }
      ],
      "proposedDate": "2026-06-16",
      "submittedDate": "2026-06-16",
      "status": "agreed_to",
      "latestAction": {
        "date": "2026-06-22",
        "text": "Amendment SA 5823 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 85 - 5. Record Vote Number: 182."
      },
      "updateDate": "2026-06-23T15:43:47.000Z"
    },
    {
      "amendmentId": "119-samdt-5827",
      "congress": 119,
      "chamber": "Senate",
      "type": "SAMDT",
      "number": "5827",
      "purpose": "To improve the bill.",
      "description": null,
      "amendedBillId": "119-hr-6644",
      "sponsors": [
        {
          "bioguideId": "T000250",
          "name": "Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]",
          "party": "R",
          "state": "SD"
        }
      ],
      "proposedDate": "2026-06-16",
      "submittedDate": "2026-06-16",
      "status": "failed",
      "latestAction": {
        "date": "2026-06-18",
        "text": "SA 5827 fell when SA 5826 fell."
      },
      "updateDate": "2026-06-22T15:44:23.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "nextCursor": "eyJ2IjoxLCJsIjoiYmlsbC1hbWVuZG1lbnRzOjExOS1oci02NjQ0IiwiayI6WyIiLCJjbXYxM3dlaGcxNTFobnMwZmlvcjU5bnpxIl19"
}

A real response, trimmed for length: lists cut to three items, long text shortened.

Path parameters

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

Query parameters

Name	Description
cursorstring	nextCursor from the previous page
limitinteger	Page size, 1 to 100 (default 100)

Response

Field	Description
billIdstring
dataAmendmentSummary[]
data[].amendmentIdstring	Congress, type and number: 119-samdt-6831.
data[].congressinteger
data[].chamberstring
data[].typestring \| null
data[].numberstring
data[].purposestring \| null
data[].descriptionstring \| null
data[].amendedBillIdstring \| null
data[].sponsorsobject[]
data[].proposedDatestring \| null
data[].submittedDatestring \| null
data[].statusstring \| null
data[].latestActionLatestAction \| null
data[].updateDatestring \| null
nextCursorstring \| null	Pass as `cursor` for the next page; null on the last page.