Legislation Intelligence

The Money Network

Follow one bill all the way through the money.

Interest

Industry Trade Association

Registered lobbyist employer

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Hires

Capitol Lobbying Firm

$35,000 in quarterly fees

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Lobbies

AB 1234, Housing

Named in quarterly disclosures

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Meanwhile

$12,500 in contributions

To members voting on the bill

Every link in this chain 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.

Live data from a real tracked bill, AB 1414, a landlord-tenant broadband fight with a dozen organizations lobbying both sides.

BallotBase bill page for AB 1414 showing status pipeline, financial landscape, coalition map, and lobbying activity

Bill page, AB 1414

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Who's lobbying this bill

13 organizations, 28 filings, every employer, the firm they hired, and what they paid.

Issue portfolio

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

Received from 3 organizations lobbying this bill · last gift 11 days before 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, "Housing"

4 new registrations matched your issue in 14 days

🤝 New client retained

Delivery platform retained Capitol firm · activity names 2 of your tracked bills

💰 Money + lobbying combo action

New registrant also contributed to 2 committee members within 30 days

Daily alerts 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.

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Money-Aware Bill Tracking

Track any California or federal bill. Stage changes, hearings, amendments, and votes arrive as alerts. Every floor vote is enriched with each legislator's contribution history, so a vote count is also a money map.

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Contradiction Detection

BallotBase cross-references who's lobbying a bill against who's funding the members voting on it. When a legislator takes money from an organization lobbying a bill they voted on, it gets flagged, automatically, from public data.

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The Full Money Network

Expand any organization into its complete network: the lobbying firms it hires and what it pays them, the bills those firms work, the firm's other clients, and campaign contributions flowing to sitting legislators, across state and city disclosures.

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Registration Signals

Know who entered the fight before the fight is public. Alerts when a new lobbying registration matches your issues, when an organization retains a new firm, and when a cluster of registrations forms around a policy area within days of each other.

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Money Tripwire

Put a watch on the legislators a vote depends on and the organizations likely to move against you. When a source you're watching sends money to a target you're watching, it fires, flagged the day it lands, across state, federal, and city filings. Harvest the funders from any past fight and aim them at the bill you're working now.

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Initiative Lifecycle

Manage policy from idea to outcome. Draft language with version history, build the coalition, track signature gathering, then convert the initiative into a tracked bill or ballot measure with the full history carried forward.

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Client-Ready Workflow

Issue portfolios, legislator tracking, contact tracking, and activity logs organized by client. AI-drafted client reports compile bill status, votes, money context, and your logged work into a deliverable. Compliance calendars keep quarterly deadlines visible.

Data Coverage

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

California, Full Stack

Complete Cal-Access campaign finance and lobbying data, refreshed daily. Every bill, vote, and amendment back to 2013. 850K+ lobbying disclosure records linked to bills and employers.

Federal

Congress.gov bill tracking paired with FEC contribution data and federal lobbying disclosures, the same money-to-legislation join, at the federal level.

City & County, Full Stack

The layer everyone else skips: campaign finance for 221 California cities and counties (council, mayor, supervisor races, synced daily with 24-hour late filings), plus municipal lobbyist disclosures including the campaign contributions lobbyists report to city clerks.

Money moves before bills do.

A new lobbying registration, a fresh retainer, contributions landing in committee members' accounts, these show up in the disclosure record weeks or months before a hearing makes the news. Traditional trackers start paying attention when a bill moves. BallotBase starts when the money does.

That's the difference between reacting to the fight and seeing it form.

Money Tripwire New

Know the instant opposition money moves toward your fight.

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

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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.

Mine an old fight for the players. Aim them at your active target.

Every historical bill shows you the funders who bankrolled the last version of your fight. Add them to the bill you're working now, and you'll know the moment they resurface. The other side reuses its playbook. So should you.

Follow the whole fight, from the first draft to the final vote.