About the record
How to read a bill here.
This is a plain-English briefing on every bill before the New Hampshire General Court — its status, sponsors, hearings, votes, and the public testimony filed on it. The state publishes all of this, but not in a form you can read through at a glance. This makes it legible.
Where the data comes from
Every bill, sponsor, docket action, hearing, roll-call vote, and veto message is synced directly from the New Hampshire General Court public record. Public testimony is drawn from the companion testimony tool. It covers the 2025–2026 sessions.
What here is machine-written
This site puts four different kinds of text on the same page: the record as New Hampshire filed it, values computed from that record, sentences a language model wrote about it, and the exact words a member of the public typed. Each is labelled where it appears, and the list below is the whole of it — generated from the same definitions the pages use, so it cannot quietly fall out of step with what you actually see.
- Headline — A short plain-English title, generated from the bill's official title and its ANALYSIS section. Shown beside the real title, never instead of it.
- One-line summary — Generated from the same two sources, verb-first and neutral. Absent for bills where the model had nothing to work from.
- Why-it-matters note on a quote — A one-line gloss a language model wrote to say why the quoted passage matters. Its reading of the text, not the text.
- Leading arguments — A language model read the public testimony and summarised the strongest argument on each side. Its interpretation, produced by the testimony tool.
- Coverage relevance notes — For each linked news article, a one-line note on why it is relevant, written by an AI web-search agent. The articles themselves are the outlets’ own reporting.
- Background reading notes — The one-line description of each evergreen policy reading is drafted by a language model. The reading list and its perspective balance are editorially curated.
- Individual testimony excerpts — A byte-exact passage of what the person submitted, checked against the record before publication. Never edited, summarised or corrected.
- Status — Read from the docket's last floor action, skipping committee recommendations that never came to a vote.
- Support / oppose / neutral counts — Counted directly from the position each person selected when filing testimony.
- Bill number and official title — The General Court's own text, as filed.
- Governor's veto message — The governor's own stated reasoning, reproduced from her veto press release or the chamber journal.
- Official analysis — The bill's own ANALYSIS section — the drafter's plain-English statement of effect — reproduced word for word.
- Quotes from the bill — Passages of the bill text, reproduced exactly from the version cited.
- Sponsors — The prime sponsor and co-sponsors as filed, with party and district.
- Hearing schedule — Committee, date, time and room as the General Court scheduled them.
- Roll-call votes — Each member's recorded yea or nay, exactly as the clerk journalised it.
- Submitter name, town and organisation — As the person entered it on the public sign-in form.
Treat anything marked AI as a convenience, not an authority. For anything that matters, read the official bill text on gc.nh.gov — which is why the bill's real title is always shown beside the generated headline rather than instead of it.
Who built this
This is a free public tool published by Citizen in a Republic, a New Hampshire news outlet covering the statehouse, and built by KarunaCode LLC. It costs nothing to use and there's nothing to sign up for.
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