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Open States

Open States

Open States strives to improve civic engagement at the state level by providing data and tools regarding state legislatures. We aim to serve members of the public, activist groups, journalists, and researchers with better data on what is happening in their state capital, and to provide tools to reduce barriers to participation and increase engagement.

Open States aggregates legislative information from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. This information is then standardized, cleaned, and published to the public via OpenStates.org, a powerful API, and bulk downloads.

As of 2021, Open States is a project of Civic Eagle.

Contributing

All issues are filed on our Issues repository.

You can communicate with us via our Slack

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  1. issues issues Public

    Having trouble? Looking to contribute? Issues live here!

    15 2

  2. openstates-scrapers openstates-scrapers Public

    source for Open States scrapers

    Python 845 462

  3. people people Public

    Curated information on all state legislators & governors.

    106 94

  4. openstates-core openstates-core Public

    Open States data model and scraper backend

    Python 22 25

  5. documentation documentation Public

    Open States Documentation

    20 35

  6. openstates.org openstates.org Public

    OpenStates.org

    Python 62 53

Repositories

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  • people Public

    Curated information on all state legislators & governors.

    openstates/people’s past year of commit activity
    106 CC0-1.0 94 1 1 Updated Jul 16, 2024
  • enhancement-proposals Public

    Open States Enhancement Proposals

    openstates/enhancement-proposals’s past year of commit activity
    1 3 10 2 Updated Jul 15, 2024
  • openstates-scrapers Public

    source for Open States scrapers

    openstates/openstates-scrapers’s past year of commit activity
    Python 845 GPL-3.0 462 1 6 Updated Jul 15, 2024
  • openstates-core Public

    Open States data model and scraper backend

    openstates/openstates-core’s past year of commit activity
    Python 22 MIT 25 0 1 Updated Jul 8, 2024
  • openstates-realtime Public

    Support for yielding bill data in real time

    openstates/openstates-realtime’s past year of commit activity
    Python 7 MIT 3 0 0 Updated Jun 13, 2024
  • task-definitions Public

    task definitions for Open States

    openstates/task-definitions’s past year of commit activity
    7 10 0 0 Updated Jun 12, 2024
  • openstates.org Public

    OpenStates.org

    openstates/openstates.org’s past year of commit activity
    Python 62 MIT 53 0 11 Updated Jun 10, 2024
  • api-v3 Public

    v3 of Open States API

    openstates/api-v3’s past year of commit activity
    Python 17 MIT 8 0 0 Updated May 14, 2024
  • openstates-geo Public

    Source for state legislative district map tiles for openstates.org

    openstates/openstates-geo’s past year of commit activity
    Python 24 MIT 12 2 0 Updated Apr 5, 2024
  • documentation Public

    Open States Documentation

    openstates/documentation’s past year of commit activity
    20 CC-BY-4.0 35 0 0 Updated Mar 28, 2024