Know Which State Laws Will Hit Your Member Cities. Before They Pass.
Civic Command tracks legislation in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska, scores municipal impact with 98%+ accuracy, and surfaces preemption risks, unfunded mandates, and funding changes that matter to leagues and the cities they represent. More states are coming soon.
Bills introduced in Missouri from 2021–2025, versus bills that became law. 97% never make it. The job is knowing early which 3% will.
Follow the path and watch the field shrink
Introduced
Every count above is real: all 12,314 bills from Missouri's nine legislative sessions, 2021–2025. Stage survival derived from each bill's official progress record. Legislative data provided by LegiScan (legiscan.com) under CC BY 4.0.
Live today: Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska. Every other state is coming soon, and new states can be added on request.
Every state has its own legislative calendar
State legislatures follow different cycles, and the cycle tells you when a state's bills can actually move. Here's how they break down, so you know what to watch and when.
Full-Time Legislatures
Long, professional sessions that run much of the year. Bills can move almost anytime, so these states call for continuous monitoring.
Fixed Annual Sessions
Convene in January and adjourn by a set spring deadline. Bills are filed early and the action is concentrated in a few months, the Missouri model (Jan 7 – May 15).
Biennial Legislatures
Hold regular sessions only in odd-numbered years. In the off years there is no regular session, so tracking is planned around the biennium.
Legislature classifications from the National Conference of State Legislatures. Exact session dates are set by each state.
Not another bill tracker.
Real municipal intelligence.
Preemption & Authority Erosion Detection
Identifies state bills that limit local control or override city ordinances, even when the language is indirect. Every bill is analyzed for its effect on municipal authority, not just keywords.
Unfunded Mandates & Fiscal Risk
Surfaces policies that increase costs or reduce revenue with no funding attached. Flags hidden fiscal exposure before it reaches your budget or your members’ budgets.
Ordinance-to-Bill Mapping
Shows exactly which of your cities’ codes are at risk from pending state legislation. Connects state bills to local ordinances so you know what actually changes on the ground.
Searchable Hearing Transcripts New
Every recorded committee hearing gets a full text transcript, generated automatically. Search a name, a comment, or a phrase and jump straight to what was said, with no more scrubbing through two-hour videos.
Hearing Video & Votes by Name, On the Bill New
Committee hearing video plays right on the bill, next to every recorded floor roll call, member by member, with party and district. The full story of a bill sits in one panel.
Deep Research Briefs
A balanced, plain-language brief on every bill: the case for, the case against, and how similar bills played out in other states. Every point is cited to a source and computed before you even open the bill.
Multi-Entity Intelligence
Every bill is scored for impact on cities, counties, regional planning commissions, and nonprofits at the same time. One view that reflects how leagues actually operate.
Agent Assistant League Level · Coming Soon
An AI assistant grounded in your league’s own tracked legislation. Ask it plain-language questions like “what moved on preemption this week?”, have it draft member briefings, and get short summaries of what changed. Every answer will be cited back to the specific bills it drew from, so your staff can verify before anything reaches the board.
Five States Live, Built to Scale
Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska are live today. The platform is built on data infrastructure that covers every state legislature, so new states come online quickly, and your league can request the next one.
Up and running in minutes. No IT department required.
Create your account
Sign up with your work email and select your league or municipality.
Set your profile
Choose the states, counties, and cities you need to watch. Your dashboard is ready immediately.
Get prioritized intelligence
Bills are scored for impact, tagged by department, and routed with clear action flags.
Stay ahead
Daily briefs, alerts, and hearing schedules keep you ahead of legislation that affects your members.
Who Uses Civic Command
Track legislation across your entire state. Deliver clear, prioritized briefs to your board and member cities without spending hours every week on bill review.
High-impact bills flagged with financial exposure and department assignments. Your next council briefing is already organized.
Revenue impact estimates, unfunded mandate detection, and preemption analysis so you know where to focus limited time and advocacy resources.
Legislation filtered by county and regional impact: transportation, housing, workforce, broadband, and aging services all in one view.
This isn’t theory. It was built in the seat you sit in.
Civic Command was designed by a sitting mayor who also serves on regional and state-level boards, a community advocate, U.S. military leader, licensed professional counselor, and systems analyst. The logic, classification process, and intelligence framework came from years of actually dealing with state legislation at the local level, not from a product team guessing what local government needs.
The right plan for leagues and municipalities
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Browse bills and basic tags.
- View all tracked bills
- Keyword search
- Official status & full bill history
- Committee hearing schedule
Track the bills you care about, with alerts and a watchlist for engaged citizens.
- Everything in Free
- Personal watchlist (up to 4 bills)
- Plain-language bill summaries
- City & county impact labels on every bill
- Email alerts when your bills move
Priced to your city's size and checked against Census data.
- Everything in Citizen Pro
- Unlimited watchlist
- Daily legislative brief
- Impact scoring & preemption detection
- Bill Research intelligence engine
- Hearing video & searchable transcripts
- Roll-call votes by name
- Team seats included (scale with city size)
- Priority support
For municipal leagues: a statewide plan sized to your membership.
- Everything in City Pro
- Department filtering & routing
- Admin dashboard & shared notes
- Cross-state comparison (coming soon)
- Agent Assistant (coming soon)
- Your league's website linked on every city account in your state
- Founding-member growth incentives
- Dedicated onboarding
Billed annually · sized to your member cities
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes Civic Command different from other legislative tracking tools?
Most tools are built for lobbyists. Civic Command was built by a sitting mayor and municipal league stakeholder specifically for the people who have to implement or respond to state legislation at the local level. The classification logic and impact scoring were developed from real municipal experience.
How accurate is the impact scoring?
In the 2026 Missouri Municipal League trial, Civic Command achieved 99.49% bill coverage and correctly identified every bill the League had flagged as high-priority in its Capitol Report.
Which states are covered?
Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska are live today, with more states coming soon. Data is synced daily from official legislative sources, and new states can be added on request.
Is there a free version?
Yes. The free tier includes bill browsing and basic impact tags. Paid plans start at $150/month for full scoring, preemption detection, daily briefs, and team tools.