GOVWATCH SERVICES
GovWatch is your organization’s link to the Missouri Capitol. As an online legislative service powered by a live staff, GovWatch is updated in real-time as the action is happening.
GovWatch is faster and more accurate than any other Missouri legislative website — including those operated by the Missouri House and Senate. GovWatch provides access to all the information you need, including a searchable bills list, background information on legislators, House and Senate reports and calendars and coverage of legislative committee action. These are just a few of the many forms of information and alerts available with GovWatch:
SEARCH
In the complex lawmaking process, it is always possible that a bill or amendment affecting your organization could escape your radar screen. With the GovWatch search tool, you can be certain that you know about all the important bills in play, and where they are in the process.
TRACKING
GovWatch offers Missouri's most advanced and customizable legislative tracking service. The GovWatch tracking system lets you organize your legislative priorities enabling you to never miss an action. With GovWatch bill tracking, one simple click takes you to a clean interface where you can see what action has been taken on the legislation that is important to you.
REPORTS
GovWatch reports help organizations follow their key legislation through the complicated lawmaking process. With GovWatch, you can access a personal, customized report at anytime or have it sent to you at a set time using the NightWriter service.
You can customize your GovWatch reports to include your own logo, making it an ideal document to send to your own clients.
EMAIL ALERTS
Notifications are sent for important events that would affect most clients. Examples of key events would be the announcement of conference committee appointments, committee report of the General Appropriations Bill or the Speaker placing a call on the House.
NIGHTWRITER
The NightWriter service offers customizable nightly reports of all the information you need. It is your own personal legislative journal delivered to you each night with reports, calendars, schedules and other content to keep you up to date.
ALERTS
GovWatch alerts are real-time updates that keep you in the know while you are not at the capitol. The alerts are the quickest way to learn about current events at the capitol such as when the House of Representatives and Senate convene and adjourn for the day.
STATS
GovWatch stats allow you view who is voting with you and who is voting against you.
When used in combination with GovWatch tracking, you can generate a detailed report of which members of the legislature voted with your position and which members voted against your position.
GovWatch stats also allow you to identify voting clusters that give you insight into who votes with who based on key issues. This information allows you to cut down your time in the capitol by utilizing these important relationships between the members and how they lean on certain issues.
INSTANTANEOUS COVERAGE
GovWatch brings all the action in the Missouri Capitol instantly to your web browser or mobile phone. Actions in the House and Senate chambers are posted as they happen. We are live and in the capitol,so actions are posted as they are spoken on the House and Senate floor. GovWatch also keeps you up to date on ever-changing legislative committee schedule updates.
CAMPAIGN COVERAGE
Get to know candidates with GovWatch candidate pages complete with their background information as well as links to their campaign website, campaign finance information and district information.
After the vote, get the results of all the races the day they are finalized. Find out who won and what the percentages were — all in one place.
ATLAS
The GovWatch Atlas feature keeps you connected with clients or analysts. The atlas is an integrated system used to communicate and form positions about bills.
With a few clicks you can send and receive comments on a bill in an easy-to-use format. Then use that analysis when working the legislature or testifying in front of a committee.
AUTOMATIC UPDATES
Personalize a report to be linked to your website and GovWatch will automatically update that report nightly. So your site stays up to date with the current status of your legislative priorities and you don’t have to constantly edit it, GovWatch does the work for you.
DAILY HARD COPY
Do you miss your journal? The Senate stopped printing them, so why not have GovWatch send you a Daily Hard Copy each morning? You can get it in paper form or have it sent to your email to print or read from your computer. GovWatch subscribers can even personalize their Hard Copy to include their reports and searches.
Subscribe now, or sign up for a free trial, to learn why policy stakeholders around Missouri rely on GovWatch.
