Every two years, the map of influence in the legislature shifts. Some members retire, some are voted out, and new ones arrive with their own committee requests, priorities, and staff. 2027 is no different: state legislatures and Congress will both seat new members this winter.
For policy teams, that makes the weeks after an election some of the most useful weeks of the year. Here is how we’d spend them.
Learn the new landscape. Who will chair which committee? Which returning members are changing seats? Which new members have worked on issues you care about? Those answers shape which bills get hearings and which stall. Teams that know them early can plan their outreach with confidence, and a few hours of this work now saves days of scrambling once session is underway.
Choose your tool, then commit to it. Fall is the right time to select a legislative tracking and advocacy platform. Onboarding takes real work: setting up your issues and states, bringing colleagues in, building the daily habits that make a tool useful. Do it before session and your team spends January on the legislature. Do it in January and you spend it learning software while bills move. Deciding now also leaves room for training, questions, and a few trial runs while schedules are still gentle.
Keep everything in one place. Policy work scatters easily: bill text in one tab, hearing dates in a spreadsheet, staff contacts in someone’s notes. Plural brings the pieces together:
- Legislative data and content across state and federal legislatures
- Committee hearing information, so you can see what is coming and when
- Legislative office and staffer information, which we will update as new members are sworn in
When the new class takes office, you’ll be able to look up who works for whom, and who to call, in the same place you track the bills.
Join the organizations already relying on it. Nonprofits, universities, and enterprises have trusted Plural since 2019 to keep up with legislatures. Each of them works differently, and Plural has earned its place with all of them. Plural is also part of SAI360, which gives teams a stable company behind the tool they choose.
The new members have been chosen, and the work of getting ready is yours to schedule. If you’d like to see Plural with your own issues and states, book a demo and we’ll help you be ready before session starts.
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