Demystify State Government Affairs With Bloomberg Government
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Every two years, 230,000 bills are introduced in 99 state chambers, making it challenging for government affairs professionals to sift through new legislative proposals and regulatory changes. Bloomberg Government: State provides essential intelligence to influence state policy via federal and state bill tracking, expert analysis and reporting, congressional directories, and other time-saving tools.
“The scale and speed of policy making at the state level is so different from what we see on the federal level,” said Will Matthews, a research analysis manager at Bloomberg Government. “You need more advance tools to keep up.” Bloomberg Government: State can help. See it in action .
State legislation intel that makes a difference
Stay ahead of regulatory trends and changes
in your state to better serve your community.
Who: search legislators and their staffers with ease
Knowing who to contact about each policy, bill, and regulation is key. Bloomberg Government: State’s directory provides information on 7,300 state legislators and 15,000 staff members. More than just a yellow book, additional offerings include:
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- Contact information of state legislators and staff
- Concise biography and career highlights
- Summaries and status of sponsored bills
- Recent news, press releases, and transcripts
- Chart of votes and stats about overall voting records
Whether a legislator or staffer, use a variety of filters to determine such criteria as educational history, job title, and party. This all-in-one platform significantly reduces time and energy to track down the right person, freeing up more time for professionals to craft the perfect outreach message.
What: efficiently track new legislation and regulations
To stay ahead in a competitive landscape, it is crucial to distill only relevant information from large volumes of state legislative and regulatory developments with speed and accuracy. With Bloomberg Government: State, government affairs professionals can set custom smart searches and keyword alerts to get updates delivered right to their inboxes in real time.
“State bills can change dramatically and quickly,” said Matthews. “But we have every version the same day it’s posted to a state’s website.” In one location, users can see the bill’s summary, the full text of all drafts, a timeline of actions, related legislative documents, and sponsors and co-sponsors.
A Bloomberg Government client, who is the director of government affairs at a biopharmaceutical company, stressed the importance of moving quickly and efficiently in his line of work. Even though his company has employees on the ground at the state-level and industry contacts in trade groups, there are always “potential blind spots,” he noted.
“If a state files a bill to update or change their HIV testing laws, for example, that’s something we’d want to know about quickly to be able to track and potentially weigh in on,” he said. “One way we might keep track of that is by having an alert set up for that topic and state.”
Why: search thousands of news sources
Bloomberg Government: State is the only workflow solution to track state legislative developments in real time. Product features include:
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- Dedicated, original news and analysis, including intel from over 35,000 sources
- State-by-state lawmaker and staff directories, including D.C.
- Complete legislative and regulatory tracking for all 50 states and D.C.
- Time-saving workflow tools, like custom searches and keyword alerts
- News coverage parsed and analyzed by Bloomberg’s next-gen analytics tech
- Unlimited access to state legislative tracking, including directories and transcripts
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Notably, Bloomberg Government: State is set apart from other tools out there because thousands of local new stories are aggregated in a single location. Government affairs professionals can gather that information to better understand and communicate policies that directly affect their communities.
“It’s one thing to see that a particular legislator has co-sponsored or introduced a new bill,” Matthews said. “But we pair that with the story on the ground – either from BGOV reporters or from our 35,000 external news sources – to give you the relevant quotes, a sense of the context in which the bill is being introduced, and a better feel of what’s actually happening than just the bill is going to give you.”
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