Bills

Bill timeline

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

The milestones a bill has passed and the steps still ahead of it, ready to draw as a progress bar.

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

Response 200

{
  "billId": "119-hr-6644",
  "outcome": "enacted",
  "events": [
    {
      "kind": "introduced",
      "chamber": "House",
      "date": "2025-12-11",
      "label": "Introduced",
      "outcome": "neutral"
    },
    {
      "kind": "reported",
      "chamber": "House",
      "date": "2025-12-17",
      "label": "Reported by committee",
      "outcome": "neutral"
    },
    {
      "kind": "discharged",
      "chamber": "House",
      "date": "2026-01-15",
      "label": "Discharged from committee",
      "outcome": "agreed"
    }
  ],
  "pending": [],
  "omittedCount": 0,
  "asOf": "2026-07-11",
  "behind": false
}

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
outcomestring	active, enacted, adopted, failed, vetoed, tabled or died.
eventsobject[]
events[].kindstring
events[].chamberstring \| null
events[].datestring
events[].labelstring
events[].outcomestring
events[].tallyobject
events[].suffixstring
pendingobject[]
pending[].kindstring
pending[].labelstring
omittedCountinteger
closingNotestring
asOfstring \| null
behindboolean	True when the bill's latest action is newer than the action history we hold.