# Legislative Alerts: Bill and Hearing Radar | USLege > Get alerted when a bill matches your issues, when a hearing mentions them, or when a committee schedules a meeting. Set it up in plain English. Canonical: https://www.uslege.ai/legislative-alerts --- Legislative Alerts # Find out when _your issue shows up_, in a bill or a hearing USLege Radar watches bills, hearing transcripts, and committee calendars for the issues you care about and alerts your team when something matches, so nothing slips by between check-ins. [Book a demo](/demo) [See the full platform](/platform) SOC 2 Type IIBills, hearings, and calendarsSet up from Claude Animated illustration with example names and data. Trusted by Fortune 500 teams, lobby firms, associations, law firms, and government The problem ## The mention that matters happens when you are not looking A new bill quietly adds a fee. A witness raises your issue in a hearing you did not know was scheduled. A committee posts a meeting with a day's notice. Checking by hand means you find out after the fact. See it in the product ## Describe the issue once, then let it find you A Bill Radar rule holds your keywords, states, and instructions. Matches land on the track your team already works from. Bill Radar rule and track inboxExample data **Data center bills**Bill Radar rule (example) StatesTX LA Keywordsdata center, large load Policy areaElectric utilities and grid, High relevancy AI instructionOnly bills that create a new fee DigestDaily Send toMy team **Energy track**Recommended bills, unreviewed (example) HB 1234 Relating to fees for large electric loads. Data center bills SB 567 Relating to interconnection requirements. Data center bills HB 890 Relating to grid reliability standards. Data center bills Grid watch Illustration with example rules and fictional bill numbers. The settings shown are the ones a Bill Radar rule has. How it works ## Describe it once, get alerted from then on STEP 1 ### Describe what you care about Keywords and policy areas for bills, or plain English for hearings, scoped to the states and bodies you choose. STEP 2 ### Choose who hears about it Alert just you, your whole organization, or a custom list of teammates, on the schedule you choose. STEP 3 ### Review what comes in Link a rule to a track and new matches queue up there for your team to review. Before and after ## From checking to being told The job Before With USLege A hearing gets scheduled Refresh committee calendars A calendar alert at the institutions you choose Someone raises your issue in a hearing Watch hours of video Video Radar watches the transcripts for you A new bill touches your issue Run the same keyword search each morning A Bill Radar digest, with matches queued on the track What's included ## Three kinds of Radar, one inbox ◆ ### Bill Radar Save a bill search with keywords, policy areas, and an AI instruction in your own words, scoped to the states you choose. Matches arrive as a digest every four hours, daily, or weekly. ◆ ### Video Radar Describe what you want to hear about in plain English, and USLege watches hearing transcripts for it across the legislatures, agencies, counties, cities, and school districts you pick. ◆ ### Hearing calendar alerts Get notified when a committee schedules a meeting at the legislatures or institutions you choose, before the notice reaches your inbox. ◆ ### Recommended bills on every track Link a Radar rule to a track and new matches queue up there, one row per bill with the rules that matched it, so your team reviews instead of searches. ◆ ### Tune out the noise Set a minimum relevancy for policy areas, choose how sensitive a hearing match should be, and add an AI instruction, such as only bills that create a new fee. ◆ ### Send alerts to the right people Alert just you, your whole organization, or a custom list of teammates. ◆ ### Cadence you control From instant alerts to weekly digests, depending on the rule. ◆ ### Email, in-app, and push Alerts arrive by email, in the app, and as push notifications, with daily or weekly digests delivered at the hour you choose. ◆ ### Workflows that create tasks Rules that turn a bill event into a task for the right teammate, so an alert becomes an owner and a due date. ◆ ### Set it up by asking Describe the rule to Claude or ChatGPT and USLege MCP creates it for you. USLege MCP ## Set up an alert _by asking for it_ Radar rules are part of USLege MCP, so you can create and review them without opening a settings page. Create a Radar rule for data center bills in Texas and Louisiana, daily, to my team. Alert me when anyone mentions pharmacy benefit managers in a hearing in any state legislature. What new bills are waiting on my Energy track? Tell me whenever the Louisiana House schedules a new committee meeting. Examples. Works from Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools connected to [USLege MCP](/mcp). Who it is for ## For teams that cannot afford to miss it [Lobbyists](/for/lobbyists)[Trade associations](/for/trade-associations)[Corporations](/for/corporations)[Legislative offices](/for/legislative-offices) Questions ## What do teams ask about legislative alerts? What is Bill Radar? + Bill Radar is a saved bill search that keeps running. You choose the states, keywords, policy areas, and an optional AI instruction, and USLege sends you the bills that match as a digest every four hours, daily, or weekly. What is Video Radar? + Video Radar watches hearing transcripts for a topic you describe in plain English. You choose which legislatures, agencies, counties, cities, or school districts to watch and how sensitive the match should be. Can I get alerted when a hearing is scheduled? + Yes. Calendar alerts notify you when a committee schedules a meeting at the legislatures or institutions you choose. Do calendar alerts filter by keyword? + No. Calendar alerts are based on where a meeting happens, such as a legislature or committee. For topic-based alerts, use Bill Radar for bills or Video Radar for hearings. Who receives the alerts? + You choose for each rule: just you, your whole organization, or a custom list of teammates. Can I create alerts from Claude or ChatGPT? + Yes. USLege MCP can create Bill Radar and Video Radar rules from a plain-English description and show you the bills waiting on a track. See it on your issues ## Let the _issue find you_ Tell us the three issues you can never afford to miss. In a few minutes we will set up Radar for them. Want the wider picture first? See the [full USLege platform](/platform). [Book a demo](/demo) [See the full platform](/platform) [Just comparing options? See pricing →](/pricing) More of the platform [Bill Tracking](/bill-tracking) [Hearing Intelligence](/hearing-intelligence) [Legislative CRM](/legislative-crm) [Legislative Calendar](/legislative-calendar) [USLege MCP](/mcp) [Full Platform Overview](/platform) Made with USLege ### Check out this _intelligence report._ An AI Overview of the United States A full AI-policy intelligence report across all 50 states: curated AI bills, an AI-Friendliness Index for every state, verified legislative hearing clips in a growing set of states, and the sponsors driving both sides of the debate. This is the type of report USLege builds fast. Something went wrong. Please try again. We'll email the report and occasional product updates. Independent analysis built from public legislative records.