The rule is written after the bill passes.
Most of what a law actually does to you is decided by an agency, months later, in a comment window you have to know about to use. We read the state registers and the Federal Register every day, and put the deadline on every rule.
A comment window is the last door that is still open.
Once a rule is final, the argument moves to a courtroom. While the window is open, a comment on the record is the cheapest influence available to anyone — and it closes on a date nobody announces to you.
Where the rules come from
Read straight from the source, every day — not licensed from a vendor and re-badged.
State registers
Each state publishes its proposed rules in its own register, in its own format — a weekly PDF here, a search form there. We parse them one at a time, which is why this is the half of rulemaking most trackers skip.
The Federal Register
Proposed and final rules from every federal agency, with the docket they belong to and the agency that issued them.
Regulations.gov dockets
The docket behind a rule — the other comments, the supporting documents, and the record your own comment would join.
Every rule carries its deadline
A rule has one actionable date on it, and it is the day the comment window shuts. We read it off the notice itself wherever the agency states one, show it inline rather than behind a click, and tell you which windows close this week — so the deadline reaches you while you can still act on it, not in the summary afterwards.
Closing soon
The rules whose comment windows shut in the next few weeks, across every agency and state you follow.
Follow an agency
Not just a rule — follow the agency, and hear about the next one before it has a number.
Alerts that name the jurisdiction
Every notification says which state or agency it came from, so a rule from one of thirty regulators is never ambiguous.
Put the open rules on your members’ page
The rule tracker embeds like the bill tracker does: pick the agencies and the rule status, paste one line of HTML, and the comment deadline renders inline beside each rule. Your members see what is open without leaving your site, and it keeps itself current.
See the embeddable trackers →Explore rulemaking before you buy anything
The public tracker breaks the whole corpus down the way you would actually search it — federal and all fifty states, updated daily.
Comments due soon
Rules whose window shuts in the next 3, 7 or 15 days — the list that decides what you work on this week.
Posted recently
What landed today, in the last three days, in the last week — so a new rule on your issue is never a month old before you see it.
By significance
Significant and major rules separated from routine ones, and proposed rules from final ones.
Bills and rules, one subscription
Regulation tracking is not a separate product with a separate price. It is part of Bill Radar — because the bill and the rule it authorises are the same fight, and watching one without the other is how an organisation wins in the legislature and loses at the agency.
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