Denver-based Web site tracks legislative bills in all 50 states

[Ian David]

Denver-based Web site tracks legislative bills in all 50 states."

Scott Yates and Peter Jones want to make work easier for lobbyists, lawmakers, political junkies and anybody who keeps tabs on bills meandering through a state legislature. The two are launching a Denver Internet company, LgDb, to allow users to track bills in all 50 states via one Web-based format rather than going to the individual Web sites of each state.

It's free for anyone wanting to call up a bill pending in Colorado or elsewhere to view the measure's contents, track its progress and see its sponsors. Users also can link to newspaper articles and blog postings related to a bill. By plugging in a keyword, such as "health care," users also can look at similar legislation pending in other states.

Lobbyists, trade associations and others can pay $450 a year for special features. Paid users, for example, can create a "bill sheet" to keep tabs on various bills without having to cut and paste information from other Web sites into a Word document or spreadsheet....

Paid subscribers also can be automatically alerted to changes in bills - either their status or language - that they've searched for previously in the database. LgDb will save the results of those searches and use them to run new searches automatically.

In addition, the service can zap an e-mail to alert users about pending action or changes related to a particular bill.

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