Cities, Counties, Special Districts & State Agencies
See the Bills That Hit Your Jurisdiction Before They Have a Number
Intelligence on the whole legislation lifecycle, from draft to vote to the money and people behind it. BallotBase watches the drafts, interim hearings, executive orders and lobbyist registrations that come before a bill exists, flags the ones that touch your budget or your authority, and turns them into a council briefing you can hand over in minutes.
Your bill tracker starts when the bill is filed. Your fights start earlier.
✕ Drafts, interim hearings and executive orders never show up in a tracker keyed on bill numbers
✕ A bill gets heard without anyone from your jurisdiction in the record, and you find out after
✕ Council asks "who is pushing this and why" and the tracker has no answer
✕ Preemption and revenue hits are buried in bill text nobody has time to read
✕ The briefing memo still gets written by hand, every week, from five browser tabs
The BallotBase solution
Know what's coming, who's behind it, and what it does to you
✓ Early warning on drafts, interim hearings, executive orders and new lobbyist registrations, before a bill number exists
✓ "Heard without us": every hearing on your issues where your jurisdiction was not in the record
✓ Who is behind it, from the official lobbying and campaign finance record, stated as fact, never inferred
✓ Bills that preempt local authority or touch a revenue source, with the clause quoted
✓ Council briefing, positions and testimony drafts built from the record in one click
Live: a government issue portfolio, bills and lobbying and pre-bill drafts in one view
ballotbase.io/or
Real data from the state's own systems. A draft that became a bill, the session's lobbying spend, and every bill's status, together.
What your team gets
Before, during, and after the bill.
Bill trackers cover the middle. BallotBase covers the whole lifecycle, sourced straight from the official record, so every line in your briefing has a citation behind it.
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Early Warning
Legislative Concept drafts on interim agendas, executive orders briefed to committee, hearings posted with short notice, and new lobbyist registrations on your issues. A morning digest of what moved before it had a number.
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Heard Without Us
Every hearing on an issue you own where nobody from your jurisdiction appeared in the testimony record. The gap report your council never sees until it is too late.
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What It Does to You
Bills that preempt local authority, change a revenue source, or carry a local fiscal note, flagged with the exact clause quoted. Suggested by the text, confirmed by your analyst, never guessed.
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Council Briefing & Positions
Take a position with its basis and authority, route it through your approval chain, draft testimony, and generate the council briefing with a readiness meter. Printable one-pagers per issue.
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Your Meetings and Theirs
Legislative hearings and your own council and county meetings in one posted-first feed, with searchable transcripts and a deep link to the moment a bill came up. Subscribe by calendar.
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Who Is Behind It
Who testified and where they stood, who registered to lobby, and the campaign money around the members voting, joined from the official lobbying and campaign finance record and shown as fact.
Live: every bill on an issue, ranked by the money and testimony behind it, with your presence in the record
ballotbase.io/or/bills
Rank an issue's bills by the organized attention behind them, and see at a glance whether your jurisdiction was in the record.
What's in the box
Sourced directly from the official systems. No third-party aggregator, no inference.
Government affairs and city manager's office staff who brief council, take positions, and cannot afford to learn about a preemption bill after committee.
Special Districts
Water, parks, school, transit and utility districts with one person watching the legislature and a board that wants a briefing, not a link.
State Agencies
Legislative affairs offices that are the subject of bills, not the sponsor. Know your legislative exposure, the fiscal notes, and who is pushing, by program.
Councils of Governments & Associations
Regional bodies and member associations that watch on behalf of many jurisdictions and need to show each one what happened on their issues.
Built for public procurement
Simple to buy, simple to defend.
An annual subscription sized for a department budget, one invoice, no seat games. Every figure traces to a public filing, so the briefing you hand council can be checked by anyone who asks. Coverage today is Oregon, California and federal; we go deep in the states we cover rather than wide.
See it on an issue your jurisdiction actually owns.
Pick one issue, water, housing, land use, transportation, and we will show you what moved on it before it had a bill number, and who was in the record.
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