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Topic saved searches catch new bills# (Link to this update)

A topic saved search now notifies you when a new bill is tagged with its topic, even when the topic is assigned some time after the bill arrives.

Alerts no longer treat historical updates as news# (Link to this update)

Alerts and saved searches match only what changed in each update, not older records we reprocess later, and topic surges count recent parliamentary activity.

• Reprocessing past parliamentary terms no longer triggers keyword, legislator or status alerts
• Topic surges count bills acted on in the window, not bills whose summary or data was refreshed

Public API guide and clearer rate limits# (Link to this update)

The developer guide is now public. API limits are shared by all of a workspace's keys, with a per-minute limit next to the hourly one, and every response reports both.

• Limits by plan, rate-limit headers and 429 responses are documented in the guide
• Account → Usage shows your workspace's API requests this hour

Correct dates for national measures and adopted EU acts# (Link to this update)

The transposition tracker and EU files now show each national measure's and each adopted act's own dates. Some dates had been taken from other measures or acts.

• National measures show their own notification, gazette and entry-into-force dates
• A measure that transposes several directives shows its CELEX number for the directive you are viewing
• Adopted EU acts show their own signature, publication and end-of-validity dates
• Documents on EU files show their own dates

EU files from 2015 on show the same types and outcomes# (Link to this update)

EU procedures from 2015 to 2024 now use the same types and statuses as newer ones, and the status says how a file ended instead of staying active.

• Delegated and implementing act files are EU proposals in every year, no longer bills before 2025
• Resolutions show Passed when Parliament adopted a text, Withdrawn when the debate ended without one
• Delegated acts show Passed once scrutiny ends without objection, Failed when Parliament objected
• More EU files get their document text and an AI summary

See one day at a time in the calendar# (Link to this update)

The calendar has a Day view on the same time grid as the week, with each sitting's title, time, committee and room. Open it from the view menu, a day's header in the week, or a date in the month.

• Up to ten concurrent sittings sit side by side; busy days get wider columns and "+N more" opens the rest
• Choose a time scale from 60 to 5 minutes, or a Monday-to-Friday work week, in the view menu
• Hide the month panel to give the grid the full width; your choice is remembered

Use PoliData in German# (Link to this update)

Choose German in the language menu or Settings. Menus, labels and account screens are translated, and your saved preference follows you across devices.

German party leaders and parliamentary group chairs# (Link to this update)

See current national party leaders, including co-leaders and people outside the Bundestag, separately from parliamentary group chairs. CDU and CSU are distinct from their joint parliamentary group.

• Official sources and verification dates accompany current leadership
• Parliamentary totals count each member once across the listed parties and groups

Polish bill timelines keep up with Sejm# (Link to this update)

Readings, committee referrals and votes update Polish bill pages even when the bill's print has not changed. Later refreshes retain the published timeline.

• Older bills receive new process updates too
• Primary bill prints missing from Sejm's bills feed retain their process history

Find legislation as you type# (Link to this update)

Legislation search updates while you type on desktop and mobile. Polish titles also match without accents and when copied with different spacing or punctuation.

• Search icons remain visible above the search field
• Filters stay in place while searches update

Daily Brief loads with less waiting# (Link to this update)

Daily Brief loads its main sections without waiting for the full topic list. Topics load when you open filters, and the overview avoids repeated work.

Choose the topics you follow when you join# (Link to this update)

New accounts start by picking at least five topics from the policy areas we tag every bill with, busiest in your parliaments first. Explore suggests bills on them from day one.

• Each busy topic shows how many bills were active in your countries this month
• Followed topics are always from our list, so they match bills in every parliament
• Your picks become your Explore topics: change them any time in Settings or Explore

Recent EU MEP meeting declarations# (Link to this update)

EU lobbying views now collect meeting declarations directly from the European Parliament, with daily updates and regular checks of historical records.

• Separate attendee links retain the people and organizations named in each declaration
• Published MEP IDs and procedure references connect meetings to the correct member and legislative item

Germany: the Bundestag and Bundesrat in PoliData# (Link to this update)

Follow German federal legislation from DIP: every Bundestag and Bundesrat stage of a procedure, with committees, roll-call votes and plenary sittings in the calendar.

• Printed papers (Drucksachen) with full text; search in German or by number, e.g. BT-Drs. 21/6561
• Enactment in the Federal Law Gazette (BGBl), linked to the EU directives a law transposes
• Results of the 2025 Bundestag election in Elections
• Not included yet: lobbying register (Lobbyregister) entries

Choose which suggestions Explore shows you# (Link to this update)

Turn Continue where you left off, Related bills and Compare across countries on or off in Search & personalization. Your analytics choice is now saved to your account.

• Related bills now appear in For you: bills like the ones you opened, in the same parliament
• Compare across countries runs your recent search in every other parliament in your plan
• Hiding a suggestion type deletes nothing; recording switches stay under History
• Your analytics choice follows you to every device you sign in on

Sign up with Google or Microsoft# (Link to this update)

Create your account with Google or Microsoft: we fill in your name and email, you pick a plan and accept the Terms, and you go straight to setting up your trial.

• Your name comes from Google or Microsoft, and you can change it before you continue
• Gmail and Google Workspace addresses need no confirmation email
• Email already in use? Sign in and connect Google or Microsoft instead
• No password needed: set one any time with Forgot password

More reliable Polish document and election updates# (Link to this update)

A temporarily unnamed Sejm attachment no longer delays other document links. Polish election data checks now run on their weekly schedule.

Change plan in a few clicks, and see your card# (Link to this update)

Upgrade or switch plan from Plan & billing: Stripe shows the exact charge before you confirm. Your subscription now shows the card it's billed to.

• Upgrade and Switch open Stripe for the plan you picked
• See the card on file, with a warning when it's about to expire
• Enterprise still goes through our sales team

Webhooks for new bills, votes and committee meetings# (Link to this update)

Subscribe your webhook endpoints to bill.introduced, bill.updated, vote.recorded and committee.scheduled, alongside the existing record events.

• Each event is described in Settings → API & webhooks
• Only current activity: loading old records never sends introduced or recorded events

What an EU procedure adopted, and when it applies# (Link to this update)

A concluded EU procedure now shows the act it produced: whether it is in force, when each part starts to apply, and the documents before and after adoption.

• Entry-into-force and application dates by article, past and upcoming
• Proposal, impact assessment, opinions and Parliament position in one list
• Implementing and delegated acts, reports, amendments and consolidated versions

EU transposition tracker# (Link to this update)

See when each EU member state notified the European Commission of the national laws that transpose a directive, and how that compares with the deadline.

• Filter by member state, status, deadline or directive
• Open a directive to compare all 27 member states and their notified measures
• Polish and Dutch laws show how their country did on each directive they transpose
• An EU flag tag on bill cards marks laws that transpose a directive or implement a regulation

Bill text: every document, in your language# (Link to this update)

The Bill text tab opens the main document in the language you use PoliData in, when the parliament publishes it, and lists every other document so you can switch between them.

• Reports, amendments, opinions, explanatory memoranda and annexes are grouped by type
• Pick another language from the language filter when a document comes in several
• European Parliament procedures now show their documents instead of “no text”

See when a bill is up for debate or a vote# (Link to this update)

A bill's page now shows the sittings it's scheduled for, and each calendar event links to the bills on its agenda. The card appears only where the parliament publishes a schedule.

• European Parliament votes without a roll call now appear, with their outcome and counts
• European Parliament files list shadow rapporteurs and every committee that gave an opinion

Readable EU procedure stages and Dutch bill numbers# (Link to this update)

The EU procedure card names the stage a file is at instead of showing a raw link, and Dutch bills in calendar events show their bill number instead of an internal ID.

Invite several people at once, and turn email off# (Link to this update)

Paste a list of addresses to invite a whole team in one go, with the seats you have left shown as you type. One switch in Notifications now stops all notification email.

• Pending invites count as used seats, and Invite says when every seat is taken
• Search (⌘K) now finds pages and settings, including ones hidden from the sidebar
• Sign-in & security shows when you last changed your password
• Usage shows your billing period, and Reset to default also removes your photo

Passkeys, two-step verification and device control# (Link to this update)

Protect your account with an authenticator app or a passkey, and see every device that's signed in to it. Sign out any one of them, or all the others, from Sign-in & security.

• Sign in with a passkey, or use one as your second step
• Recovery codes get you back in if you lose your authenticator app
• Workspace owners can require two-step verification for every member
• Sensitive changes, like new API keys or deleting a workspace, ask you to confirm it's you

Account, settings and team, redesigned# (Link to this update)

Account, Settings and Team now share one layout, with a tab for each area. Your preferences are saved to your account, so they follow you to any device.

• Choose your start page, default parliament, light or night theme, and sidebar order
• See your plan and usage: seats, parliaments and API requests per key
• Webhooks: choose event types, send a test, see recent deliveries and rotate the secret
• Review or delete your search history in Settings

A faster Daily Brief# (Link to this update)

The Daily Brief opens faster, and pages across PoliData no longer slow down while party statistics refresh in the background.

What's new, in one place# (Link to this update)

Every new feature, improvement and fix now lands on this page, newest first. Follow it by RSS, or open it from Help in the account menu.

• A dot on Help in the account menu marks updates you haven't seen
• Link straight to any update from its heading

Explore: search in plain language# (Link to this update)

Explore replaces Search. Type what you mean, like “pensions Poland” or “who voted for the nitrogen bill”, and phrases such as “last month” or “passed” become filters you can see and undo.

• Typos are fixed for you, with a one-click way to search your exact words
• Search in English, Polish or Dutch and find matching records in the other two languages
• Suggestions as you type: your recent searches, completions, people and committees
• ⌘K now searches every parliament in your workspace

Reports that answer a question# (Link to this update)

Start a report by choosing a question, like what moved on your watchlists or where a member stands. You get a print-quality PDF in which every row says why it's there.

• 10 report types, from Week ahead and Committee report to Member dossier
• Mark watchlist bills Support or Oppose; Session outcomes counts your wins, losses and bills at risk
• Export a one-page brief from any bill
• Find bills to track by number or title, like druk 643 or H.R. 1744, ranked by relevance

See why an alert or saved search matched# (Link to this update)

Notifications now show the keywords that matched with a highlighted excerpt, and the item page opens a “Why this matched” panel that points to the passage.

• Saved searches and keyword alerts match on any one keyword, not all of them
• A keyword of several words matches only as that exact phrase
• Alerts that aren't on a watchlist now appear in your inbox, each in its own folder
• The bell shows 20+ when more than 20 notifications are unread

Full text for CRS and committee reports# (Link to this update)

CRS reports and congressional committee reports now open their official file in PoliData and show the extracted text, instead of saying no text is ready.

A better way to read documents# (Link to this update)

Each document card now opens a reader with the official file and the records it's linked to. Search, filters and paging live in the URL, so you can share exactly what you see.

• Group Dutch documents by their parliamentary dossier
• Open the official file when its format can't be previewed
• Browsing a parliament's documents is faster

Read and compare official bill text# (Link to this update)

Bill pages have a Bill text tab. Read the official PDF or web version inside PoliData, or compare two published versions with every changed passage marked.

• Step through changes with Next and Previous, or jump from the overview of edits
• Open a change's page in the original PDF where page references are reliable
• Incomplete or unverified scans are labelled and left out of comparisons

Members, sponsors and statuses checked at the source# (Link to this update)

We compared each parliament's records with its official source and corrected what differed, including current members, sponsors, committees and bill statuses.

• US bills list withdrawn cosponsors separately, with the date they withdrew
• When another member takes over a US bill, it shows the new lead sponsor and keeps the original
• EU procedures now carry a status, and departed MEPs no longer show as current
• New parliamentary terms are picked up automatically in all five parliaments

Daily Brief puts what needs action first# (Link to this update)

Act today now lists only items with a concrete reason: a vote or hearing today, movement on something you watch, a major status change or a target you track.

• Next 7 days steps through your parliaments one at a time
• Calendar links from the brief open the exact event
• Change volume shows the last 7 days by default
• Fixed the Daily Brief running off the screen on phones

Election results for the UK and the Netherlands# (Link to this update)

A new Elections page maps results: UK constituencies with every candidate's vote share, and Dutch municipalities and electoral districts with the national seat allocation.

• UK: drill from region to seat and see the sitting MP; click outside the shape to step back
• UK: find a constituency by full postcode
• Netherlands: see which party leads each area, by how much, and whether it held or gained the lead
• Dutch member profiles now show their national list seat

Watchlist notifications in one feed# (Link to this update)

A watchlist's Notifications tab now lists everything that fired for it, newest first, with unread markers. Signal settings moved to the Settings tab.

• Add several bills, people or committees to a watchlist at once
• Latest signal shows when something last fired, not when the list was edited
• Opening a notification marks it read; Mark all read clears the rest

Dutch votes shown the way they're cast# (Link to this update)

Most Tweede Kamer votes are a show of hands by party, with no individual ballots. Vote pages now say so and show each party's position and seats, not member tallies.

• Each Dutch vote is labelled Hand-raise · by faction or Roll-call
• Party totals are weighted by seats, so a 140–10 vote reads 140–10
• Party history follows official seat records, including members who switched party
• Dutch member profiles now show official portraits

The right lead sponsor on Polish bills# (Link to this update)

Polish bills now name as lead sponsor the MP the signatories authorised to represent them, not the first name on the signature list, which was almost never the lead.

• Government, Presidium, Senate and citizens' bills no longer list MPs as sponsors
• Committee bills and committee reports name the committee, including joint committees
• Committees are matched under their former names too

Daily Brief: what changed and what's next# (Link to this update)

The Daily Brief gathers what changed across your parliaments: a filterable queue, an AI-written overnight summary, yesterday's votes and the next 7 days. You land on it after signing in.

• Mark changes read, save them to a watchlist or create an alert, one at a time or in bulk
• Set a reminder before a committee hearing
• Next 7 days includes UK chamber business, Sejm sittings, US floor votes and EU plenary votes
• Set up a morning digest email

A faster calendar# (Link to this update)

The calendar now loads about a tenth of the data for a month and fetches the months either side in the background, so moving between weeks doesn't wait on the network.

• Event details load when you open an event
• Quiet recess weeks say so and offer Jump to next event
• Fixed busy months cutting off events after the first 1,000

Analytics in tabs, and each member's topics# (Link to this update)

Analytics now has Overview, Bills, Topics, Parties and Committees tabs that share one Term and Topic filter, and loads only the tab you open.

• Scope bill panels to a topic and share the link
• Opens on the current parliamentary term
• Member pages add a Topics tab: bills sponsored per topic, and votes with or against their party

Every cosponsor on US bills# (Link to this update)

US bills now list all their active cosponsors, each linked to their profile and party. Before, nearly every US bill showed only its primary sponsor.

Lobbying: who lobbies, funds and meets politicians# (Link to this update)

A new Lobbying workspace lists US lobbying firms and their clients, Super-PACs and EU lobby groups, with the bills they lobby on, the politicians they back and the MEPs they meet.

• See which politicians each Super-PAC supports or opposes, and how much it spent
• US politician pages show funding mix, top donor employers and outside spending
• EU lobby groups show their budget band and MEP meetings; UK ministers' meetings show too
• Basic view on Team and Pro; full detail on Business, Enterprise and Research Access

European Parliament votes, MEPs and transpositions# (Link to this update)

PoliData now covers the European Parliament: MEP profiles, how each MEP voted in roll-call votes, plenary sittings on the calendar, and links between EU directives and national laws.

• MEP profiles with political group, member state, committees and photo
• How each MEP voted, for roll-call votes
• EU directives link to the Polish and Dutch laws that transpose them, and back
• AI summaries of EU procedures draw on the adopted text where it's available

Documents: reports and questions beside the bills# (Link to this update)

A new Documents page holds records that aren't bills, like reports and written questions, and bill pages gain a Documents tab listing the ones linked to them.

• US CRS reports and congressional committee reports, with topics and related bills
• UK written questions
• Legislation now lists bills by default; related records move to Documents