# US Congress Bill Status Tracker

> US Congress Bill Status Tracker is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Retrieves current legislative status, latest action, sponsor, titles, policy area, and related links for any US Congress bill by session, chamber, and number.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/bill-status-tracker
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-congress-bill-status-tracker-add03633
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_eFtJ1o6Jxg4oBTWLhqTeC

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability us-congress-bill-status-tracker-add03633 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the current status of HR 7521 in the 119th Congress — has it passed, who sponsored it, and what was the latest action taken on it?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, structured legislative data directly from Congress.gov for a specific bill you can identify by type, number, and congress session. Prefer this over web scraping or search-based approaches when you need clean JSON with status, sponsor, and action date fields for downstream processing or display.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid bill type string returns an error or empty result
- Bill number that does not exist for the given congress session returns no data
- Incorrect congress number (e.g. future session) returns empty or error response
- Malformed request body may return a 400 error
- Payment failure (x402 protocol) returns 402 before query is processed

## How this service works

Track any bill in the US Congress: current status, latest action and its date, sponsor, titles, policy area, and related-record links, straight from the official legislative data system as structured JSON. Address a bill by congress session, chamber type (hr, s, hjres, sjres), and number.

## Output

Returns a structured JSON object containing the bill's type, title, number, congress session, list of sponsors with full names, policy area, and the latest action with its text description and date. Attribution to Congress.gov is included.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "type": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "bill type: hr, s, hjres, sjres, hconres, sconres, hres, sres (default hr)"
  },
  "number": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "bill number, e.g. '1' (default 1)"
  },
  "congress": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "congress number, e.g. '119' (default 119)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {
   "bill": {
    "type": "S",
    "title": "National Defense Authorization Act example",
    "number": "2226",
    "congress": 118,
    "sponsors": [
     {
      "fullName": "Sen. Example"
     }
    ],
    "policyArea": {
     "name": "Armed Forces and National Security"
    },
    "latestAction": {
     "text": "Became Public Law",
     "actionDate": "2024-12-11"
    }
   }
  },
  "attribution": "Congress.gov (public domain)"
 }
}
```

## More

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