The deal

Terms of use

Effective July 25, 2026.

What this service is

govt.fyi turns public government records into readable pages: what bills do, where they are, who funds and lobbies the people deciding them, and what happens after laws pass. It is an information service built on public records.

What it is not

Not legal adviceSummaries, statuses, deadlines, and odds are informational. For decisions that carry legal or financial consequences, verify against the official record we link on every page, or ask a professional.

Not a claim about motivesWe show money, lobbying, and votes side by side because they are public facts. We do not assert why anyone voted, donated, or lobbied, and nothing here should be read as that assertion.

Not always complete or instantWe say what we cover and how fresh it is; coverage labels and provenance lines are part of the product. Official records can lag, err, or change, and so can we. No warranty of completeness or fitness; use at your own judgment.

Your account

One account per person, signed in by your own phone number. Do not use the service to harass anyone, to scrape at volumes that degrade it for others, or to misrepresent our data as saying things it does not say. We can suspend accounts that do. You can delete your account anytime from your account page.

The data

Government records are public and remain public here; nothing we do changes your right to get them from their official sources, which we link on every page. Our arrangements, summaries, plain-language renderings, and derived datasets are ours. Personal, civic, journalistic, and research reuse with attribution to govt.fyi is welcome. Republishing or redistributing our derived data at scale, or building a commercial product on it, requires our written permission until our data products launch with their own terms.

Automated access

Search engines and reasonable automated reading are fine; this site exists to be found and read. Bulk collection that degrades the service for others, evades technical limits, or replicates our derived datasets wholesale is not permitted. If you need the data in bulk for civic or research work, join the waitlist on our landing page and say so; a structured way to reach us launches alongside email delivery, and the honest answer will usually be yes.

Changes

If these terms change materially, the effective date above changes and signed-in users see a notice before the change binds them. Disputes: New York law, New York venue.

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