INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

find_similar_bills

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

billcommons.orgnone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://mcp.billcommons.org/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for find_similar_bills and invoke it with your own arguments.

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Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

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.

search_legislation — Search FULL BILL TEXT -- not just known-bill-number lookup.
get_bill_record — Fetch the full record for one bill: metadata, sponsors, subjects, actions, versions, and vote-event summaries.
compare_bill_versions — Deterministic diff (unified + structured) between two versions of a bill's extracted text.
get_vote_details — Fetch vote event(s) with member-level (yes/no/other/absent) vote records.
get_upcoming_hearings — List upcoming (future-dated) legislative hearings/events, optionally filtered by jurisdiction and/or bill.
trace_legislative_history — Full chronological legislative history for a bill: merged timeline of actions, version publications, and votes, plus related-bill links.
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.
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.