1. Not legal advice
State Affairs provides information about legislation and regulation. It does not provide legal advice, and using it does not create a lawyer–client relationship with anyone. Nothing in the Service should be treated as a legal opinion about how a law applies to your situation. For that, consult a qualified lawyer admitted in the relevant jurisdiction.
Nor is it lobbying, compliance, tax or investment advice. Decisions about how to comply with a law, or what position to take on a bill, are yours.
2. Automated and AI-generated output
Summaries, momentum scores and the answers produced by the “Ask” feature are generated automatically. The system retrieves passages from documents in our index and a language model composes an answer from them.
This has real limits you should assume are present:
- Retrieval can miss a relevant passage, so an answer may be incomplete.
- A model can misread a provision, or state something with more confidence than the sources support.
- An answer reflects only what is in the index — not the entire body of law on a subject.
Every answer lists the passages it relied on precisely so you can check it. Treat those citations as the actual output and the prose as a convenience. Verify before you quote, file, advise or act.
3. Sample data in this build
Parts of this deployment are populated with sample content created for demonstration. It is labelled “Sample” wherever it appears. It uses realistic citation formats and document structure, but the text is synthetic: it is not real law and must never be cited or relied on as law. Records ingested from live sources are not labelled that way.
4. Accuracy, completeness and timing
We take reasonable care, but we make no warranty that the Service is accurate, complete or current. Legislatures and agencies publish on their own schedules and in their own formats; documents are amended, substituted and withdrawn. Our index is refreshed on a schedule, so there is always a lag between something happening and it appearing here. Coverage also varies by jurisdiction and document type.
5. The official source governs
Where anything in the Service conflicts with the official version published by a legislature, agency or court, the official version governs. Documents carry a link to their source wherever we have one. Before relying on a provision, open the source.
6. Scores and summaries
Momentum and influence scores are our own heuristics — computed from observable signals such as how far a bill has progressed, how recently it moved, and sponsorship. They are a prioritisation aid, not a prediction of outcome, and they carry no official standing.
7. Nonpartisanship
We aim to report what the documents say without taking a position. Descriptions of bills, officials and votes are not endorsements or criticism, and appearance in the Service does not imply any relationship with the person or body described.
8. Third-party sources
The Service incorporates material from third parties, including legislative data providers and the states' own publications. We do not control those sources and are not responsible for errors originating in them. Links to external sites are provided for convenience and are not endorsements.
9. Reporting a problem
If an answer looks wrong, a citation does not match, or a document is missing, please tell us — that is a bug, and we would rather fix it than have you work around it. Write to support@example.com or use the support form with the question and the answer you saw.
This Disclaimer forms part of our Terms of Service, including the disclaimers of warranty and limitations of liability set out there.