Bill tracking for civil rights, LGBTQ+ and advocacy nonprofits
For nonprofits tracking bills that affect the communities they serve. National, regional, and local nonprofits with an annual budget under $5 million pay a reduced rate, and groups that are both trans-owned and trans-led can pay half price.
When a bill or proposed federal rule that matches what you watch is filed in any state legislature, the DC Council, Congress or on regulations.gov, Statute Scope emails you a brief built from its own text. For civil rights, LGBTQ+ and advocacy nonprofits, we flag gender-affirming care limits, legal sex definitions, ID documents, bathrooms, sports, drag, marriage and foster care, HIV criminalization and nondiscrimination.
What we flag for civil rights, LGBTQ+ and advocacy nonprofits
Every brief tags the bill with the concerns it touches and quotes the words that set each tag off. Here is what we tag in your field, and why it matters to you.
Gender-affirming care limits
Restricts puberty blockers, hormones or surgery, for minors and increasingly adults and public plans, with license and liability exposure for providers.
Legal sex definitions
Writes binary, birth-based definitions of sex into state code, which then govern IDs, facilities, data collection and civil-rights law.
ID documents & gender markers
Controls whether trans people can update the sex on birth certificates, licenses and passports.
Bathrooms & facilities
Restricts restroom, locker-room, shelter and prison housing by birth sex, with penalties and operator liability.
Trans athletes in sports
Bars trans girls and women from school and college sports and creates private lawsuits against schools.
School curriculum, pronouns & outing
Requires schools to tell parents about a student's transition, limits LGBTQ+ instruction and controls pronoun use.
Drag & gender expression
"Adult cabaret" and "male or female impersonator" laws can criminalize drag, Pride events and venues.
Religious & conscience exemptions
Lets providers, agencies and businesses refuse service to LGBTQ+ people on religious grounds.
LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination
Adds or removes sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing and public-accommodation law.
Trans data & surveillance
Subpoenas, reporting mandates and data rules that can expose trans people's health and identity information.
Marriage, parenting & foster care
Challenges to same-sex marriage, covenant-marriage bills and placement rules decide which families the law recognizes.
HIV criminalization & PrEP
HIV-exposure crimes and PrEP coverage rules shape the legal and health risk for people living with or at risk of HIV.
Intersex & sex-characteristic variations
Defines or carves out intersex people and regulates surgeries on intersex children, often inside trans-care bills.
Tax-exempt status threats
Proposals to strip exempt status and Johnson Amendment changes threaten operations.
Donor privacy & grants
Donor disclosure, foreign-funding registration and grant conditions affect fundraising.
Advocacy & protest limits
Lobbying limits, protest penalties and anti-SLAPP changes affect advocacy groups.
What you'll get alerts on
- State bills on health care, education or identity documents
- Federal bills and proposed rules on civil-rights protections
- The same bills moving in several states at once
Every alert comes with a brief: the bottom line, the key provisions in the bill's own words, who to contact and the full text. See a sample brief, or read which legislatures and agencies we cover.
Plans for civil rights, LGBTQ+ and advocacy nonprofits
One subscription covers everyone at your organization, with no per-seat fees. Watch is $150 a month for 5 criteria and Desk is $450 a month for 20, with more on Desk at $40 a month for each 5. One criterion is one jurisdiction (a state, DC or the federal government) plus one search. Searching for the same thing in 5 states is 5 criteria.
- Nonprofit rate: 65% of the price for nonprofits with an annual budget under $5 million, and nonprofit universities with an annual budget under $100 million.
- Solidarity rate: half price for nonprofits and community or mutual-aid groups that are both trans-owned and trans-led, within the nonprofit-rate size limits.