Bill tracking for retailers and consumer brands
For retailers and consumer brands selling across many states, where each legislature sets its own rules.
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 retailers and consumer brands, we flag packaging and bag rules, PFAS, sales tax, junk fees and auto-renewal, swipe fees, age-restricted products like vape, hemp and alcohol, “Made in USA” labels and tariffs.
What we flag for retailers and consumer brands
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.
Packaging EPR & recycling
Producer-responsibility laws make brand owners fund recycling and report packaging data.
PFAS & product chemicals
PFAS bans, reporting and warning-label laws force reformulation and disclosure.
Sales tax & marketplace rules
Sales and use tax, marketplace-facilitator and digital-goods taxes change pricing and filing.
Pricing, fees & consumer protection
Junk-fee, auto-renewal, price-gouging and surveillance-pricing laws bring penalties and lawsuits.
Retail theft & online marketplaces
Organized-theft and marketplace-disclosure laws affect loss prevention and third-party sellers.
Tariffs & import rules
Tariffs, de minimis changes and forced-labor bans change landed costs and sourcing.
Swipe & interchange fees
Interchange caps and routing mandates change what every card sale costs a retailer.
Gift cards & unclaimed property
Escheat and stored-value rules decide when unused balances go to the state.
Labels, "Made in USA" & date marks
Origin claims, date labels and unit-pricing rules require packaging and shelf changes.
Tobacco, vape & hemp/THC sales
Flavor bans, retailer licensing and hemp-THC limits decide what can be sold and who can sell it.
Alcohol sales
Licensing, direct-shipping and grocery-sale rules govern who can sell alcohol and how.
Firearms retail
Dealer rules, background checks and payment-code laws change how firearms are sold.
SNAP & WIC retailers
SNAP purchase restrictions and EBT rules change what authorized stores can sell and how they are paid.
Delivery apps & third-party platforms
Fee caps and worker rules for delivery platforms change last-mile costs.
Age-restricted product sales
ID-check and age-gating rules for products sold to minors bring penalties at the register and online.
What you'll get alerts on
- State consumer-protection, data-privacy and sales-tax bills
- State labor, scheduling and delivery-app bills
- Proposed FTC and Consumer Product Safety Commission rules
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 retailers and consumer brands
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.