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What you can and cannot do with this site and what is on it. Last updated November 13, 2026.

Who owns what

Polis, including its software, design, charts, written explanations and the figures it calculates (bill stages, party-line votes, party unity, pass rates and the like), is © 2026 Derek Roberts. All rights reserved.

The legislative records underneath are public. Polis does not claim them, and you are free to get them from the sources listed on the methodology page.

What you may do

  • Read the site and use it for your own research, reporting, teaching or advocacy.
  • Link to any page.
  • Quote a figure or a short passage, or share a screenshot of a chart, if you credit Polis and link to the page it came from.

What you may not do without written permission

  • Copy the site, or a substantial part of it, to build or feed another site, product or dataset.
  • Collect pages automatically, whether by scraper, crawler or script. Search engines indexing the site for search are the exception.
  • Use the site’s content to train or evaluate machine-learning models.
  • Copy the site’s code, design or charts.
  • Suggest that Polis endorses you, or that you are affiliated with it, or use its name to promote something else.
  • Try to get around rate limits or other technical protections, or disrupt the site.

No official standing, no warranty

Polis is an independent project and is not affiliated with any legislature or government. It is not the official record: sources can be late or wrong, and so can the figures calculated from them. Check the official record, which every bill links to, before you rely on anything here.

The site is provided as it is, with no warranty of any kind, and its owner is not liable for loss arising from its use.

Changes

These terms may change. The date at the top of this page says when they last did. Using the site means you accept the terms as they stand that day.