December 18, 2006

LgDb.com Makes Tracking Tennessee Legislation Easier than Ever

LgDb.com, which bills itself as "the USA's best legislative database," emailed today to say that it has added bill data from the Tennessee General Assembly to its fast-growing Legislative Database as of today. A company rep says the site is "updated daily and more often if needed." Also, LgDb will be operating in all 50 states by January.

Now anyone interested in legislation going through the statehouse in Nashville can search for free on LgDb.com. The full text of the bill is there, along with easy links to sponsors and more. If users want the security of knowing they are looking at the official state version of the bill, there's a link to that, too, on each bill's page on LgDb.com. This means that anyone can search on LgDb.com rather than search on the state's page, and still see the text of the bill from the state, and then quickly find similar bills in other states, or contact information for bill sponsors.

For the professional there's much more. Lobbyists can set up bill sheets, adding just the bills they want and letting LgDb update the status of each bill. LgDb Pro subscribers can also set up stakeholder groups, dramatically improving communication among Legislative Advisory Committees. LgDb Pro subscribers can also choose the option of displaying their bill sheet on their own web page, so that associations and membership groups can keep members informed all the time, rather than with a monthly newsletter.

Visit tht LgDb.com home page and you'll see a prominent link titled Writers, Editors, Bloggers. It links to a page headlined "For the Media," which merely asks the media - including bloggers - to credit LgDb.com when appropriate. Nice to see they consider bloggers are part of the media because, well, because we are.

I suspect I'll be using - and crediting - LgDb.com often.