About Evergreen Ledger

What Gets Synced

• Legislators and sponsors
• Committees and committee members
• Bill text, status, and document URLs
• Roll call votes and individual member votes
• Full action history for each bill
• Hearing schedules
• Amendments
• RCW citations affected
• Committee meeting schedules
• Campaign finance data (via WA Public Disclosure Commission)

Impartial Impact Assessment

This tool provides an impartial impact assessment of proposed legislation — it does not advocate for or against any bill. The AI identifies both potential benefits and potential concerns from multiple stakeholder viewpoints without editorializing or taking sides. When a bill genuinely leans one direction, the analysis reflects that honestly rather than forcing artificial balance — you may see more or stronger points on one side than the other. The goal is to help you understand what a bill would do, not to tell you what to think about it.

What the AI Generates

• Plain-language summaries — what the bill proposes, in accessible terms
• Pro/con analysis — arguments from different perspectives, categorized by topic area, each rated by strength (1–5) and beneficiary direction (-1.0 to +1.0) to reflect significance and who the effect serves
• Stakeholder impact — who would be affected and how, presented neutrally
• Beneficiary assessment — which groups the bill primarily aims to serve

What Gets Translated

• Bill summaries
• Pro/con analysis points and stakeholder impacts
• Bill titles, descriptions, and status text
• All navigation, labels, and interface text

Beneficiary Score

Each bill's beneficiary score (from -1.0 to +1.0) is computed from the individual pro/con points, not generated as a standalone AI judgment.

Every pro/con point carries two ratings: a strength (1–5, how significant the point is) and a beneficiary direction (-1.0 to +1.0, who the specific effect serves):

• -1.0 — This effect primarily benefits everyday people and communities
• 0.0 — Balanced, affects everyone roughly equally
• +1.0 — This effect primarily benefits corporations, wealthy individuals, or special interests

The overall beneficiary score is the strength-weighted average of all point directions: score = sum(strength × direction) / sum(strength). Points with higher strength pull the score more. For example, a strong pro for everyday people (strength 5, direction -0.8) has more influence than a weak con favoring industry (strength 2, direction +0.4).

Session Gauge

The session gauge aggregates individual bill scores into an overall snapshot of the legislative session. Bills are weighted by how far they've progressed through the legislative process — a signed law carries far more weight than a newly introduced bill:

The weighted score is the sum of each bill's beneficiary score multiplied by its phase weight, divided by the total weight. Bills are also categorized into five segments: strong worker (< -0.5), lean worker (-0.5 to -0.1), balanced (-0.1 to 0.1), lean business (0.1 to 0.5), and strong business (> 0.5).

Semantic Search

When you search with a text query, the system converts your query into a vector embedding and finds bills with semantically similar content using cosine similarity. Search results are ranked purely by relevance to your query — there is no editorial ranking bias.

What We Collect

• Page views — which API routes are visited (e.g. bill pages, search queries)
• Anonymous visitor hash — a one-way SHA-256 hash of your IP address, browser user agent, and a daily-rotating salt. This lets us count unique visitors per day without ever storing your actual IP address. The hash changes every day, so visits cannot be linked across days.
• Referrer — if you arrived here from another website (e.g. a search engine or social media link), we record that site's address
• User agent — your browser name and version
• Approximate location — country, state/region, and city derived from your IP via a local GeoIP database (no data is sent to any external geolocation service)
• Feedback email (optional) — if you submit feedback and choose to include your email address, we store it solely to respond to your feedback. It is never used for marketing or shared with third parties.

What We Don't Collect

• No IP addresses are stored — only the irreversible daily hash
• No cookies or local storage for tracking
• No accounts or personal information required to use the site
• No third-party trackers, ads, or data sharing

How We Use It

This data is used exclusively for website analytics — understanding traffic patterns, popular pages, and where visitors come from. Raw page view records are automatically purged after a short retention period and rolled into aggregate daily statistics (total views and unique visitor counts). The data is never sold, shared, or used for any purpose other than improving this site.