Bills

Bill facts

GET/v1/bills/{billId}/factsData + Analysis

What the bill does, as discrete facts read from its text: funding, deadlines, agencies, required reports, penalties, definitions and more, each with the words it came from.

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

Response 200

{
  "billId": "119-hr-6644",
  "textVersion": "Enrolled Bill",
  "data": [
    {
      "type": "acronym",
      "label": "BUILD acronym",
      "detail": "BUILD is the abbreviation used in the short title of the Better Use of Intergovernmental and Local Development Housing Act.",
      "source": {
        "sectionPath": "t-ii.s-205",
        "subsectionPath": null,
        "sectionNumber": "205.",
        "quote": "Better Use of Intergovernmental and Local Development (BUILD) Housing Act"
      },
      "status": "fresh"
    },
    {
      "type": "acronym",
      "label": "NEPA",
      "detail": "Abbreviation for the National Environmental Policy Act, referenced in the section 206 streamlining provisions.",
      "source": {
        "sectionPath": "t-ii.s-206",
        "subsectionPath": "b-1",
        "sectionNumber": "206.",
        "quote": "section 103 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4333)"
      },
      "status": "fresh"
    },
    {
      "type": "acronym",
      "label": "RESIDE Act",
      "detail": "Short name for the Revitalizing Empty Structures Into Desirable Environments Act.",
      "source": {
        "sectionPath": "t-ii.s-210",
        "subsectionPath": null,
        "sectionNumber": "210.",
        "quote": "Revitalizing Empty Structures Into Desirable Environments (RESIDE) Act"
      },
      "status": "fresh"
    }
  ]
}

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.

Response

Field	Description
billIdstring
textVersionstring \| null
dataBillFact[]
data[].typestring	One of: agency, funding, deadline, required_action, usc_citation, required_report, created_entity, sunset_or_repeal, covered_entity_definition, carve_out, penalty, rulemaking_requirement, glossary_term, acronym.
data[].labelstring
data[].detailstring
data[].sourceobject \| null	Where in the bill it comes from; null for facts read from the bill record rather than its text.
data[].status"fresh" \| "stale" \| "unresolved"