About & methodology

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Sources and coverage

Bill text, actions, committee material, and other legislative records come from Oregon Legislature sources linked on bill pages. Campaign finance pages use Oregon Secretary of State ORESTAR data and disclose their own coverage limits. Bill catalog coverage depends on the stored sessions and indexed source documents; filters show the session and status in use. The default is the most recent published regular or special session and all statuses.

Official documents are linked separately from this site’s summaries. “Latest available text” means the latest indexed bill version available here, not current law. Proposed amendments remain separate until official adoption evidence supports them.

Updates and dates

Production ingestion and measure-text indexing are scheduled hourly; campaign finance sync is scheduled daily. Jobs can fail or lag. The Bills workspace shows the available data refresh date when known. Legislative action dates, source publication dates, analysis dates, and legal effective dates mean different things. A bill becoming law does not establish when each provision takes effect.

Generated analysis and review

Plain-language decision briefs, affected-group descriptions, and some research assessments are generated by AI from stored sources. Model confidence is a self-rating, not independent verification. A source link supports inspection; it does not mean a human checked every generated claim. No general human review of every brief is established. Research notes and replacement assessments display their own review or evidence status when available.

Personalized results use indexed bill text to find potential topic connections. A match does not establish that a bill applies to a visitor. Keyword fallback can miss relevant bills, and semantic thresholds have not been calibrated for complete precision or recall.

Known limits and corrections

Records may be missing, stale, or difficult to interpret. Some bills lack a current generated brief; their official summary or a labeled text excerpt may be shown instead. Failed proposals did not become law, and pending proposals describe possible effects. Bill replacement research is a separate assessment, not an official legislative status.

Use Bills to check the linked official record. “Report a problem” lets you review a report before it is stored by this service. A receipt confirms storage, not a response or human review. See the privacy notice for information handling.