Prefiled Bills are Flooding In

We’re five days away from the beginning of the 2010 legislative session, and the bills are coming in quickly now. (Over 200 bills have been filed in the past three days alone—409 in total.) There are two great ways to see what’s being proposed, and each is good for totally different types of people.

If you find the whole business of the General Assembly overwhelming, you’ll want to browse proposed legislation by topic. That provides an at-a-glance view of what sorts of things that legislators are proposing doing. Clicking on any word in the listing will show you a listing of all of the bills on that topic. This is definitely the best approach for newcomers.

But if you’re dogged in your tracking of legislation—you want to see every single bill that comes in—try our day-by-day listing of incoming legislation. You can browse back as many days as you want, and follow the link to each bill to get details.

In a couple of weeks, when all of the bills are in, we’ll look at the tools that allow you sort through them all to see which bills are important, which bills people are really paying attention to, and which bills are going places. Right now, let’s all just try to keep our heads above water as the tide rises.