Getting Started With Your State Net® Service

Homepage

The new modernized homepage shows off a sleek new design and is built to be mobile-friendly. You can now easily search and navigate via your phone.

The dropdown provides you the ability to run advanced and targeted search—combining legislative, regulatory and topic all in one.  You can enter a bill number, a term or phrase or a topic while choosing which bill type, regulation, etc. to search for. 

New Search Experience

My Searches 

Your saved searches are found in the My Searches pod. You can edit your search filters at any time by mousing over the pencil icon next to the title of the search. You can delete a saved search by mousing over the trashcan.

Once in edit mode, the pod will expand so you can edit the filters for the search.

My Tracking

The My Tracking pod is where you will access and edit your saved tracking reports.  Here, you can edit your filters at any time by mousing over the pencil icon next to the title of your report. You can delete a tracking report by mousing over the trashcan.

Once in edit mode, the pod will expand so you can edit the filters for your report

Upcoming Events Calendar

You can use the calendar pod, to view general events (for all states or each individual state) as well as events associated with measures tracked in your private file(s). Events on the calendar are updated daily.

Session Map

Search Bar & Prefilters

The powerful new search bar allows you to create ad hoc searches with predictive typeahead results regardless of the content type.  When you enter a search term, a dropdown menu will appear and display results that are similar to the term you entered. If you preselected filters from the right side, the results in the menu will reflect those filter selections. You can either select from the menu to navigate directly to that result, or you can click the search button to be navigated to a results page to see more options. 

1. Type your search into the search bar
2. Run your search as normal or click on a suggestion to go directly to the reader - Find what you want faster with predictive results -- As you enter characters into the search bar the search engine will auto-populate suggestions in a dropdown
3. Click on a suggested result from the dropdown to navigate to the bill reader or reg reader page depending on your search type
4. Collapse and expand the dropdowns using the down arrow in the selector
5. Clear the search terms you’ve entered by clicking the “x” in the right of the search bar

Measure Type Selector:

• All measure types are initially selected
• If you click on the measure type selector, a dropdown will appear allowing you to select Everything, Legs, Regs, or Local.

If you make a selection, the dropdown will collapse and your selection will display in the selector. 

Jurisdiction Selector:  If you click on the content selector, a dropdown will appear with two sections:

1) State & Federal

2) Cities & Counties

• Initially, all jurisdictions are selected for by clicking on anything you are filtering down to that selection
• State & Federal: you can select individual jurisdictions or use the “All | None” menu to select everything or nothing at once. If you make a selection, it will display in the selector.
• Cities & Counties: clicking on the heading will display the Local jurisdiction options. If you click on a state, the local jurisdictions will display on the right of the panel to select from there. If you make a selection, it will display in the selector.

 

Search Results Page

The new search results page shows off the new modernized State Net aesthetic. The page has simplified results cards, easy to view and remove filter breadcrumbs, user-friendly filter menus, and new action buttons.

Your search results can be easily modified by removing any of your previous pre-filters and the search results will update.  Further, you can type in a different search and your pre-filters will stay in place.

Track a measure from your results by clicking on the Track button -- a menu will appear listing all private files and allowing you to choose further options for Priority and Position.  Here you may also add tags or suppress the bill from showing up in your tracking results.

When you choose "track" the button will change to indicate the action. 

Filters

Use the filters on the left-hand side to fine-tune your search results. 

Our mobile-friendly design

Search results are easily accessed from your mobile devices.

Search Results Cards

Expanded and Title views: 

You can toggle between the expanded and title views in the upper right next to the sort by dropdown. The data on the search results cards change based on your selection.

Below are descriptions of Expanded View vs. Title View for the different content types:

• Legislation

• Expanded view: Bill name, bill number, sponsors and co-sponsors, disposition, location, title, summary, text hits, status, and topics.
• Title view: Bill name, bill number, sponsors and co-sponsors, disposition, location, title, summary, and status.

• Regulations

  • Expanded view: Regulation name, key, agency, citation, state id, disposition, title, summary, text hits, status, agency contact, and topics.
  • Title view: Regulation name, key, agency, citation, state id, disposition, title, summary, and status.
  • Expanded view: Ordinance name, local id, file date, description, text hits, documents & hearings, and topics.
  • Title view: Ordinance name, local id, file date, and description.
  • Expanded view: Executive Order name, state id, order date, effective date, title, summary, text hits, and topics.
  • Title view: Executive Order name, state id, order date, effective date, title, and summary.
  • Expanded view: Measure name, prop, source, state id, qualification date, date on ballot, election date, title, summary, text hits, and topics.
  • Title view: Measure name, prop, source, state id, qualification date, date on ballot, election date, title, and summary.
  • Expanded view: Document name, document type, agency name, state id, file date, title, text hits, and topics.
  • Title view: Document name, document type, agency name, state id, file date, and title. 

• Local Ordinances

• Executive Orders

• Ballot Measures

• Regulatory Documents