My Legislator
Written by Sonya Quick, CalMatters
Californians can now easily follow what their state representatives say and do each week, as the Legislature considers about 5,000 bills before adjourning in August.
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CalMatters is launching a free tool that helps Californians follow, engage and hold their Sacramento lawmakers accountable in a powerful new way.
Our new tool is a personalized, weekly newsletter called My Legislator, which delivers key updates about your California state assemblymember and senator straight to your email inbox. We track everything lawmakers say, vote on, and introduce, and more, so that Californians can keep up with their elected leaders, and so elected leaders are accountable to their voters.
Sign up for My Legislator. And if you need help confirming who your state representatives are, don’t worry, our sign-up process has your back.
This session, legislators will consider about 5,000 bills before adjourning in August. Those bills regulate so much of Californians’ quality of life, as state legislators make decisions on K-12 and college education, courts and prisons, health care, the environment, transportation, housing and homelessness and the cost of living in the world’s fourth largest economy. The state has an annual budget of more than $300 billion, and it distributes another $200 billion each year from the federal government.
That’s why each week during the legislative session, My Legislator tells you:
- How your legislators cast their votes (or if they missed a vote)
- What they said
- Historical context around who’s funding and influencing them
- The bills they authored as they make their way through the legislative process
- How they’re measuring up to their colleagues on bills passed, missed votes, bipartisanship and more
- Announcements from their offices
- What the numbers mean and how the lawmaking process works
Last fall, we test drove our My Legislator for one month and beta launched it with just under 3,000 readers.
How are your California lawmakers voting? Do they talk more or less than their colleagues at the Capitol? Who gives them the most money?
We’re tracking everything California’s state legislators said, voted on, introduced, and more, to keep them accountable to their voters.
Sign up for our free My Legislator email to get a weekly report on your representatives delivered straight to your inbox. Read more about what’s in the report and how Californians have used it. To sign up, you can either enter your address below, or select your district.
Data about what each California state assemblymember and senator is collected in real time through Digital Democracy, a CalMatters project using technology and data to increase transparency, accountability and understanding about California state legislators and the decisions they make about state policy.
(Editor’s Note: For more information go to: https://calmatters.org/my-legislator/.)
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