Data Collection

billcommons.org

Provides API tools to search and retrieve legislative information including bills, versions, and vote details.

1 endpoint11 known toolsFirst detected July 29, 2026Last detected August 29, 2026

ENDPOINT 1

https://mcp.billcommons.org/mcp

No auth detected

MCP server metadata

Name: billcommons
Version: 1.28.1

Capabilities

experimentalpromptsresourcestools

Server instructions

Bill Commons: public, open-source legislative search for all 50 US states + DC. Tools return structured JSON with canonical ids, official source_url fields, retrieved_at freshness timestamps, and explicit official-vs-derived labeling. Coverage is uneven while ingestion is in progress -- call get_jurisdiction_coverage before relying on an empty result to mean 'no such legislation exists'. SCOPE -- what is NOT here. Do not answer these from Bill Commons, and do not report an empty result as evidence that the legislation does not exist: - US CONGRESS. State legislatures only. No federal bills, no H.R./S. numbers, no Congressional committees. - CITY AND COUNTY ORDINANCES. Nothing below the state legislature. A question about a municipal code, city commission, or county board is out of scope even for a state we cover well. (State bills that REGULATE cities -- preemption, home rule, municipal finance -- are in scope and are searchable.) - CURRENT SESSION ONLY. Not an archive; no prior-year sessions. - HEARINGS AND COMMITTEE CALENDARS. Not collected for any state. - LEGISLATOR AND COMMITTEE RECORDS. Not collected. Bill sponsors are available per bill, as bare names without party or district. Bill status is DERIVED by Bill Commons from the action record, not reported by the state. Attribute it accordingly.

Known tools 11

search_legislation

Search FULL BILL TEXT -- not just known-bill-number lookup.

Inferred read-only

get_bill_record

Fetch the full record for one bill: metadata, sponsors, subjects, actions, versions, and vote-event summaries.

Inferred read-only

compare_bill_versions

Deterministic diff (unified + structured) between two versions of a bill's extracted text.

Inferred read-only

find_similar_bills

Find bills with similar titles via deterministic trigram similarity, across jurisdictions.

Inferred read-only

get_vote_details

Fetch vote event(s) with member-level (yes/no/other/absent) vote records.

Inferred read-only

get_upcoming_hearings

List upcoming (future-dated) legislative hearings/events, optionally filtered by jurisdiction and/or bill.

Inferred read-only

trace_legislative_history

Full chronological legislative history for a bill: merged timeline of actions, version publications, and votes, plus related-bill links.

Inferred read-only

build_legislative_evidence_packet

Compile a citation-ready evidence packet for a bill: full official record, legislative history timeline, votes with member-level detail, and hearings -- each explicitly labeled official vs.

Inferred read-only

get_jurisdiction_coverage

Return the jurisdiction_coverage state-machine status for one state (abbreviation or name), or the full 51-jurisdiction coverage matrix if state is omitted.

Inferred read-only

get_active_sessions

List legislative sessions currently flagged active, optionally filtered by jurisdiction (two-letter state code or name).

Inferred read-only

list_topics

List Bill Commons' curated cross-state topic trackers (e.

Inferred read-only

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.billcommons]
url = "https://mcp.billcommons.org/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "billcommons": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.billcommons.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: billcommons
Remote MCP URL: https://mcp.billcommons.org/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "billcommons": {
      "url": "https://mcp.billcommons.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "billcommons": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.billcommons.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "billcommons",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://mcp.billcommons.org/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

TRUST AND VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

Trust Data Available

BuiltWith Trust API v2 evidence for billcommons.org was fetched 2026-08-23T23:58:23.056Z.

Trust status Neutral

billcommons.org is assessed as Neutral: No suspicious signals found, but no strong positive signal either

Indexed

Evidence is source-attributed and does not guarantee that a third-party server is safe. Risk labels are conservative metadata heuristics.