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How to track State Legislation

Trying to track State legislation? Check out these links!

Tools for tracking state level legislation:

NCSL Tracking Database: The National Conference of State Legislators developed the Education Bill Tracking Database that monitoring state education legislation. http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/education-bill-tracking-database.aspx
See also the Early Education and Child Care Bill Tracking.
Minnesota Legislative Reference Library: Designed for Minnesota legislators, this site tracks web resources helpful in finding Minnesota-based state agencies, nonprofits, advocacy groups, and other organizations by topic. So, though designed for public officials, this could be helpful to you in finding additional sources of information about what is happening in the policy area in your state. https://www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl/links/links
Minnesota Legislature: The Office of the Revisor of Statutes allows users to search for Minnesota Statutes, Session Laws, and Rules by keyword, Topic Index, and bill numbers. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/pubs/

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Here are some resources for tracking legislation.

National Conference of State Legislatures

GovTrack

Education Week

National Education Association

Legislative Action Center: http://edadvocacy.nea.org/home
National Level: https://www.countable.us/ – can see what Congress is voting on and provides ways to take action
State Level: https://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/trackbill – search for bills, track bills and see what is scheduled for the house and senate (could also use: https://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/legis)
State Level: https://mn.gov/governor/resources/legislation/ – shows bills that have been signed or vetoed.
Education for State – http://cqrcengage.com/neamn/legislature – this is part of Education Minnesota’s

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Trying to track federal legislation? Check out these links!

Tools for tracking federal legislation:

GovTrack.us: This is a free legislative tracking tool created by Joshua Tauberer; it is unaffiliated with government and is used by many congressional transparency websites. Use it to track federal legislation by issue area and set up alerts.
https://www.govtrack.us/
Congress.gov: The website of the United States Congress, this site includes a searchable database for federal legislation. For those of us who do not know bill numbers by heart, the Advanced Search function offers a Subject Search by Policy Area and Legislative Subject Terms.
https://www.congress.gov/advanced-search/legislation

Subscription databases for federal legislation include the following:

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