The General Assembly's current working session.

During the interim this is the upcoming session, not the one that just ended; continued bills and new prefiles accumulate there. For retrospective work on a finished session, pass that session's code to the other tools instead of relying on this default.

Legislative sessions for a calendar year.

Returns each session's code, e.g. 20261 = 2026 Regular Session and 20262 = 2026 Special Session I. The reference list reaches back to 1994.

List bills in a session, optionally filtered by a search term.

query is a case-insensitive substring match against the bill number, description, and title. limit is capped at 200; page through larger result sets with offset. total_matching counts all matches, not just the returned page.

Full detail for one bill: title, status, dates, patrons, session lineage.

patrons groups member names by role (Chief Patron, Co-Patron, ...); get_bill_patrons returns the same list with member ids. sessions lists every session the bill appears in; two entries mean it was carried over from the even-year session into the odd-year session.

Every patron of a bill with their member ids, in LIS display order.

role is Chief Patron, Chief Co-Patron, or Co-Patron. member_id chains into get_member, get_member_bills, get_member_votes, and get_member_committees. get_bill lists the same names grouped by role, without ids.

Plain-text summaries of a bill (as introduced, as passed, ...).

The entry with is_active true is the current summary. An empty list means LIS has published no summary for that bill and session.

Full text of one bill version, HTML stripped to plain text.

document_code selects a version (e.g. "HB1" = introduced, "HB1ER" = enrolled); the default is the most recent version. available_versions lists every version that can be requested. Long texts are cut at 15,000 characters with truncated set true. Amendment markup (additions and strikethrough deletions) is flattened to plain text.

Chronological action history for a bill, from prefiling to governor action.

Passage dates live here (the bill detail's passage date fields are always null in LIS): look for events with is_passage true and read date and vote_tally. is_passage marks the events whose resulting status is a passage status (Passed House, Passed Senate, ...). status is the bill's status after each event. committee names the committee that acted; this is the only place LIS records which committee holds a bill. vote_id links an event to its vote: pass it to get_roll_call.

Every recorded vote on a bill, in both chambers, in chronological order.

Floor, committee, and subcommittee votes all appear. is_roll_call is true when the recorded members voted on this bill alone; it is false for a voice vote (no members recorded) and for a block vote (one motion that disposed of bills_in_vote bills at once, which is not a position on any one of them). Pass a vote_id to get_roll_call for the member by member record. Costs one request per vote.

Who voted which way on a bill, with party and district, one entry per vote.

Members are grouped under yea, nay, abstain, and not_voting. statements are corrections members filed ("recorded as yea. Intended to vote nay."); the recorded response still stands. Only votes that record members on this bill alone are included: voice votes and block votes are left out (get_bill_votes lists those too). vote_id narrows the result to one vote.

Every vote one member cast in a session, or their votes on one bill.

Floor, committee, and subcommittee votes all appear, in LIS order. A row is one (vote, bill) pair: a block vote that disposed of 105 bills appears 105 times, each with is_block true and bills_in_vote set. A block vote is a real vote, but not a considered position on any one bill; exclude_block_votes drops them. total_matching counts rows and distinct_votes counts votes cast. Attendance roll calls are omitted. limit is capped at 200; page with offset.

The session's member roster, searchable by name.

query matches any part of a name, ignoring case ("schmidt", "Charlie Schmidt", "Schmidt, C"); omit it for the whole roster. The roster deliberately includes members who left or arrived mid-session (service_end_date and service_end_reason mark a departure): they cast the votes recorded before they left. member_id is the key for the member tools.

One member's roster record: name, chamber, party, district, status, contact.

Reads the session roster, which is the authoritative source (LIS's by-id endpoint answers nothing for some sitting members). Use get_member_committees for seats, get_member_bills for patronage, and get_member_votes for the voting record.

Every bill a member patrons in a session, in any role.

The session bill list names only chief patrons, so this is the route to a member's co-patronage. is_chief_patron marks the bills the member sponsors; role restricts the list to one role. query is a case-insensitive substring match against the bill number, description, and title. limit is capped at 200; page with offset.

Every committee seat one member holds in a session, with the role.

LIS has no member-first committee endpoint, so this reads every seat list in the member's chamber: 14 requests cold for a House member, 67 with subcommittees, all cached afterwards.

The standing committees of one or both chambers, optionally with subcommittees.

The list is not session scoped: it describes the committees that exist now. Who sits on them is session scoped; see get_committee. Use a committee's number ("H08") or name with get_committee, list_meetings, and list_dockets.

A committee's roster for a session: each member's role, party, and district.

committee is a number ("H08", "S13") or any part of a name ("Courts of Justice", "courts"). Both chambers have some names, so pass chamber or the number when a name is ambiguous. Seats come back in LIS order, chair first. meeting_note is the committee's regular meeting time when LIS records one, and subcommittees lists the subcommittees, which this tool accepts by number too.

Meetings on the master schedule in a date range: committees, floor, caucuses.

Dates are YYYY-MM-DD and inclusive; keep the range short, since a week in session is about 150 meetings. committee narrows the list to one committee by number or name (chamber disambiguates a name found in both chambers). time is free text as the clerk entered it ("15 minutes after adjournment") and may be blank. Cancelled meetings stay listed with cancelled true. limit is capped at 200; page with offset.

A Senate committee's dockets for a session: each meeting and the bills on it.

Dockets are the Senate's committee agendas, newest first as LIS lists them. The House keeps none in the API: read a House bill's committee from get_bill_history and the committee's meetings from list_meetings. committee is a Senate committee number ("S13") or name. A docket and its linked schedule can disagree on the hour, so both times are reported. Costs one request per docket cold, cached afterwards.

A chamber's floor calendars for a session, one per sitting.

A floor calendar is the day's order of business: the bills up for a reading or a vote. Pass a calendar_id to get_floor_calendar for the bills on it. Several calendars can share a date.

One floor calendar: the bills up for action, by section, with the votes taken.

calendar_id comes from list_floor_calendars. Each bill carries its calendar section (e.g. "Senate Bills on Third Reading") and the actions recorded against it, with a vote_id where a vote was taken; pass that with the bill number and session code to get_roll_call.

Validate the configured LIS API key.

LIS heartbeat endpoints accept any key, so this is the only real check: it asks the PartnerAuthentication service whether the key is registered and active.