New: Legislative Data Catalogs

Legislative Data Catalogs and Regulatory Intelligence in One Platform 

Thousands of bills move through Congress and the 50 state legislatures every year. For energy professionals, only a fraction of them matter: the ones that could reshape rates, siting, reliability standards, or market structure. Finding that fraction has meant checking dozens of separate legislative websites, tracking each one by hand and, too often, catching a bill only after it has already advanced.

HData is pleased to announce the release of its legislative data catalogs, a new addition to the HData Library that brings legislation into the platform alongside regulatory energy data. Now, you can monitor the legislation that shapes your regulatory landscape in the same place you track proceedings, dockets and rate cases.

What's in the Legislative Catalogs

The legislative data catalogs cover legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress and all 50 state legislatures, plus Washington, D.C., mostly going back to the 2009-2010 sessions. That includes bills, resolutions, statutes, acts, and other formal legislative measures, with the detail you need to act:

• Full bill text and every amended version, from introduced to engrossed to enrolled
• Sponsor and co-sponsor information
• Committee assignments and referral history
• Status at every stage, from pre-introduction through introduction, engrossment, enrollment, and final action
• Vote records and roll calls
• Session and hearing schedules tied to specific bills

Legislatures run on their own calendars. Some meet year-round; others convene for a matter of weeks, with activity fastest in a session's final days. HData ingests and updates bill activity as it happens rather than on a fixed publication schedule, so the status you see reflects where a bill actually stands.

Legislation and Regulation, Connected

Tracking bills in one tool and dockets in another leaves a gap, and that gap is where risk hides. Legislatures routinely direct commissions to open proceedings, adopt standards, or report findings by statutory deadlines. A bill introduced this month can become the rulemaking you're responding to next year.

HData closes that gap. It's the energy industry's only centralized resource for legislative and regulatory intelligence in a single platform, connecting bills to the dockets and proceedings they affect. That means you can trace a policy shift from the moment a bill is filed through the proceeding it eventually shapes, allowing you to thread the two.

Who it's for

The legislative data catalogs were built for the range of professionals who work across regulated energy:

• Power and utilities. Government affairs and regulatory teams get visibility into bills that could change rates, siting, reliability standards or market structure, often before a bill reaches committee.
• Regulators. Commission staff can track legislative mandates and deadlines that affect commission authority or trigger new rulemaking obligations.
• Advocacy and policy. Advocates can identify bills to support, oppose, or amend, compare similar measures across states, and time interventions to committee hearings.
• Professional services. Analysts and consultants can benchmark how comparable legislation performs across jurisdictions to advise clients on strategy and likely outcomes.
• Grid software and services. Vendors can spot policy shifts on interconnection, data centers, storage, and distributed energy that open or close markets, and time their engagement accordingly.
  
  

Analyze Bill Text with Regulatory AI

Bill text is dense, and it changes as legislation moves through committees and chambers. HData users can start a Regulatory AI session on a single bill, or they can add it to the RegAI Queue, build a file set from other bills and HData files, and ask questions of the whole set. Users can summarize provisions, compare versions to see what an amendment changed, or ask targeted questions about a bill's content and context in minutes, with downloadable citations.

Available Now to HData Users

The legislative data catalogs are available today to all users with a license at no add-on cost. If you have HData Library access, the catalogs are ready to use.