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Why Use OLBB?
Keeping up with legislation is time-consuming. While the Oregon Legislature provides public access to bills, tracking the issues you care about often means searching through hundreds of bills, subscribing to each one individually, and sorting through a flood of notification emails to determine what actually changed.
OLBB does the heavy lifting for you.
Using AI, OLBB reads every introduced bill, automatically categorizes it by topic, and updates those categories whenever a bill is amended. You can quickly browse legislation by topic, primary chief sponsor, committee referral, OGIS status, and other useful views, with additional tools planned as the project grows. Once public testimony begins, you can also easily identify bills generating significant public interest.
When you find a bill you want to track, simply add it to your watchlist. Each night, OLBB gathers the latest activity, analyzes the changes, and delivers concise, easy-to-read email briefings, so you can stay informed without constantly monitoring the Legislature's website.
OLBB is an independent project and is not affiliated with or sponsored by the Oregon Legislature or any other organization. If OLBB saves you time and helps you stay informed, please consider becoming a subscriber. Your support helps cover the ongoing costs of hosting, AI processing, and continued development so we can keep improving the service for everyone.
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How to use OLBB
Everything runs from the shortcuts in the bar at the top of every page. Here's the quick tour.
Find bills to watch
Two tabs up top get you there. Find by Policy Area groups every bill of the session by subject, so you can scan a topic and see everything under it. Find by Misc. Filters lets you search another way — by hot measure, primary sponsor, committee referral, Open Government (OGIS) impact, and more.
Topics are scored by AI: OLBB reads each bill as it's introduced, tags it, and re-checks the tags whenever the bill is amended. Those tags won't always line up exactly with the categories legislative staff assign later — we cast a wide net on purpose, so you can surface every bill that might touch what you care about.
When a bill looks relevant, add it to your watchlist right where you found it.
Look up a specific bill
Already know the number? Open Bill Overviews from the top bar and type it into the bill picker — you'll jump straight to that bill's full history, sponsors, documents, and process flow.
The digest links directly to the recording at the moment each history event took place — floor readings and committee hearings and work sessions. The official OLIS site doesn't do this at all. OLBB builds the links from the published recording logs, so they land you very close to the right spot — just keep in mind it's not always frame-perfect.
Manage your watchlist
Your Watchlist tab is home base for everything you're tracking — add or remove bills there anytime.
Bills that miss a committee deadline are presumed dead. Find by Misc. Filters keeps a "Dead in Committee" list of every one of them, and lets you untrack all the dead bills you're following in a couple of clicks — so your briefings stay focused on what's still moving.
Choose your briefings
OLBB sends three nightly briefings, all covering just the bills on your watchlist. Bill Activity is the short one — what moved, plus anything coming up. Legislative Process organizes your bills by where each one sits in its lifecycle. Committee organizes them by committee, with hearing and work-session detail, votes, and adopted amendments.
How many you can pick depends on your plan: one on Basic, two on Upgraded, all three on Premium. Bill Activity and Legislative Process can also arrive as a weekly wrap-up instead of nightly, if that suits you better.
Every paid plan also gets the Podcast-Style Audio Only Briefing: three hosts talking through what moved on your bills. How many a month depends on the plan; see the pricing cards below. Unused ones carry over for the whole session, so you can save them for a busy week. Premium can also listen to the e-mail briefing as an .MP3.
Open My Profile from the account button in the top-right corner to choose your briefings, set how often each one arrives, and turn on the audio. Every briefing goes to the address you sign in with.
Not sure which you want? Read a real one — all three, built from an actual day of the session.
New here? Use the account button in the top-right corner to sign in or create a free account, then start adding bills to your watchlist.
Simple pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you want to track more bills, add briefings, or hear more podcast-style audio briefings.
See a real briefing first →
Free
$0
- Track up to … bills
- Pick any one of the three briefings, free for your first … days — then it becomes a weekly roundup
- Browse & search every bill
- See and browse bills by all Misc. Filters
- Jump straight to the recordings
- Floor Briefings and Com. Player for any prior (adjourned) session
Basic
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- Track up to … bills
- Choose any one of the three nightly briefings — Bill Activity, Legislative Process or Committee
- Floor Briefings and Com. Player unlocked — watch floor sessions and committee meetings right in the page, with the transcript and summaries following along
- … Podcast-Style Audio Only Briefings — a conversation about the bills on your watchlist (hear one)
- Everything in Free
Upgraded
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- Track up to … bills
- Choose any two of the three nightly briefings
- … Podcast-Style Audio Only Briefings
- Printable PDF of presumed dead / still-alive bills, emailed shortly after each deadline
- Everything in Basic
Premium
- Track up to … bills
- All three nightly briefings
- … Podcast-Style Audio Only Briefings
- Listen to the e-mail briefing as an .MP3 — any briefing read aloud, so you can listen on the go
- Everything in Upgraded