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ballotbase.io/bill/CA/AB-1414
BallotBase bill page for AB 1414 showing status pipeline, vote analytics, bill summary and coalition map

A real tracked bill: AB 1414, a landlord-tenant broadband fight with a dozen organizations lobbying both sides.

The Money Network

Follow one bill all the way through the money.

Interest
Industry Trade Association
Registered lobbyist employer
Hires
Capitol Lobbying Firm
$35,000 a quarter
Lobbies
AB 1234, Housing
Named in quarterly disclosures
Meanwhile
$12,500 contributed
To members voting on the bill

Every link is public record, scattered across registration filings, quarterly disclosures, and campaign reports at the state and city level. BallotBase joins them into one picture, automatically.

Inside the Product

What your team sees.

Real data from AB 1414: who's lobbying, how the money maps to the vote, and the signals that fire before a fight goes public.

Who's lobbying this bill 13 ORGS · 28 FILINGS
Who's lobbying AB 1414: 13 organizations and 28 filings with the firms they hired and fees paid

Every employer, the firm they hired, and what they paid.

Issue portfolio BILL TRACKER
Issue portfolio with bill tracker, legislators and coalition, organized by client

Your issues, bills, legislators and coalition, organized the way a practice actually runs.

Contradictions · AB 1234 2 flagged
Asm. Member, D-14 VOTED NO $42,500
From 3 orgs lobbying this bill, last gift 11 days before the floor vote
Sen. Member, R-08 ABSTAINED $18,000
Employer PAC is the member's #2 career donor
116 of 119 voters money mapped
Every floor vote joined to contribution history, automatically

Votes and money, cross-referenced on every tracked bill.

Lobbying Signals 3 new
CLUSTER Forming around "Housing"
4 new registrations matched your issue in 14 days
NEW CLIENT Delivery platform retained Capitol firm
Activity names 2 of your tracked bills
MONEY + LOBBYING Combined signal
New registrant also gave to 2 committee members within 30 days

Daily signals from the registration record, matched to your issues.

What's Inside

Everything a government affairs practice runs on.

Built with the money layer underneath, so every bill, vote and stakeholder comes with financial context no other tracker has.

DraftedFloor VoteSigned
Floor vote alert+$12.5K to voters
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Money-Aware Bill Tracking
Track any California, Oregon, or federal bill. Every vote arrives with the legislator's donor history already attached.
Voted NO on AB 1234$42,500
Took money from 3 orgs lobbying the bill
Contradiction flagged
02
Contradiction Detection
When a member takes money from an org lobbying a bill they voted on, we flag it. Automatically, from public data.
Org
Firm
Bill
$
Member
03
The Full Money Network
Open any org into its full web: the firms it pays, the bills they work, and the checks flowing to sitting legislators.
NEW REGMatched your issue
CLUSTER4 registrations in 14 days
04
Registration Signals
See who entered the fight before it's public, the moment a new registration matches your issues.
⚡ Tripwire fired
Trade Assoc. PAC
Asm. D-14
$25K
05
Tripwire: money early warning
Watch a bill and we watch the money both ways. It fires the day it lands and names who's behind it.
CLIENT REPORT
Generated by AI
06
Client-Ready Workflow
Portfolios, contacts, and activity by client, plus AI reports that write themselves from the work you logged.
Data Coverage

Depth other trackers don't have. Layers they can't join.

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California Full stack
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Money Tripwire NEW

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Name the legislators a vote hinges on. Name the organizations you expect to move against you. BallotBase watches the public record and fires the moment their money reaches your targets, while there's still time to do something about it.

Tripwire · AB 1414 ⚡ Tripwire fired
Source you're watching
Statewide Trade Association PAC
Target you're watching
Asm. Member, D-14
$25,000
A source you're watching gave to a target you're watching. Flagged the day it hit the disclosure record, across state, federal and city filings.
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