Track the New York City and State legislative activity that impacts your organization, in one place.
City Council, Assembly, Senate, and State Agencies
Council Legislation Tracking
- Full Council Record: ingests raw local sponsor memos, council summaries, and committee reports directly next to the introduction text.
- Hearing Video & Transcripts: council hearings, transcribed and searchable to the second.
- Sponsor & Committee Tracking: every sponsor, co-sponsor, and committee assignment, kept current.
- Committee Agenda Indexing: scans upcoming city committee calendars to instantly highlight your tracked issues the moment they are scheduled for a hearing.
- Historical Session Links: complete municipal backfill to 2022 to trace re-introduced legislation and dead committee fights across multiple sessions.
Assembly & Senate Tracking
- Committee Agenda Monitoring: flags the exact moment a piece of target legislation lands on an active committee calendar.
- Real-Time Amendment Tracking: delivers immediate notifications when a bill is modified, re-referred, or advanced through a committee room.
- Official Action Histories: full access to historical vote records, sponsor changes, and preceding session text variations.
- Agency Rulemaking Tracking: proposed and adopted agency regulations, so you can see how a bill plays out after it passes.
- Daily Capitol Insider Briefings: weekday analysis of the political dynamics, behind-the-scenes conversations, and personalities shaping the most important news in Albany politics.
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Get a live view of New York City or State legislative updates.
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USLege Tracks What's Said.
Some of Albany's most consequential shifts start with a sentence in a hearing, not a line of bill text.
- Judge complete issue context: hearings, bills, amendments, and agency action in one view.
- Move faster on response and alignment: automated cross-referencing surfaces implications and stakeholder impacts, not just bill updates.
- Deliver real-time client intelligence: instantly generate team and stakeholder-ready updates.
About Capitol Confidential Pro
Through an exclusive partnership between Hearst's Times Union and USLege, Capitol Confidential Pro delivers expert New York Capitol reporting alongside real-time legislative activity and policy signals. This gives you the context to understand what's happening, why it matters, and what to do next.
Track bills, votes, hearings, and headlines as they move, with live video, searchable transcripts, and instant alerts that surface developments early. Whether you're monitoring amendments, preparing for a committee, or responding to late-breaking developments, Capitol Confidential Pro gives you a clear advantage: the signal, the context, and the next move when it matters.
The voices behind the partnership
“With Capitol Confidential Pro, powered by USLege, professionals won't just know what's happening inside the Capitol, they'll understand why it matters, in real time. This partnership brings even more value to our users, who have needed breaking news, combining smart technology with trusted journalism to help them stay informed, ahead, and always ready to act.”
“Capitol Confidential has built a strong presence at the state Capitol, where we've become a trusted source for lawmakers, insiders, and newsmakers. Partnering with USLege will bring us to a whole new level with offerings we know our readers will crave. We couldn't be more thrilled to pair our reporting with tools from a platform with proven results.”
Local government coverage in New York.
USLege also tracks these New York government bodies directly: cities, counties, school boards, agencies, and more, all on video with searchable transcripts.
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Weekly, nonpartisan New York intelligence from The Political Spotlight: what moved, what is about to, and the hearing moments worth your time.
What teams ask about tracking New York.
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