Policy sources and methodology
Bounded, source-labelled corpus of selected United States state and federal actions, international instruments, and original-author compute-governance research. It is not a complete jurisdictional tracker, legal advice, or a statement that any proposal is binding. Historical policy-event dates are distinct from retrieval health supplied by an operator refresh snapshot.
Each record identifies an official or original-author source, source date, and scoped factual summary. Research reports and political commitments are not represented as law or treaty duties. Verification mappings are Bill Commons analysis: candidate evidence and limits, not legal-compliance findings or vendor-capability claims. Source-retrieval receipt limits are explicit.
Status and evidence
Original legal texts support descriptions of official actions. Original authors support descriptions of research and agreement proposals. A proposal is not an enacted requirement. Historical instruments remain labeled with their dated status.
Dates mean different things
Publication and action dates belong to the source. Retrieval and source-check dates describe Bill Commons observations. A document discovered today may be old. A changed source body signals a need for review; it does not establish a policy change.
Source checks and refresh health
Each refresh checks a bounded set of source URLs and retains up to sixteen observations per record. A successful retrieval records a body hash; a changed hash awaits human review. Within the audited collection edition, repeated unchanged fetches and failed checks keep that review pending; a reviewed editorial edition is required to reset it. Failed checks remain visible. Checks older than 36 hours, or with invalid times, are labeled stale. Manual audits of supplemental sources are dated separately and do not turn a failed automated check into a success.
The “Source checked on or after” filter finds retrieval activity since your last visit. It includes failed checks and does not identify confirmed changes in law. If live observations are unavailable, the site labels the bundled collection edition and preserves its cited records.
Verification analysis
Mappings connect a policy assertion to possible evidence, assumptions, and limitations. They are research analysis. Documentary reporting, independent audits, and hardware or cryptographic attestation establish different things. None alone establishes universal legal compliance.
Coverage and corrections
This collection is a bounded policy research resource, separate from the broader state-legislation corpus. An empty search does not establish the absence of relevant law or proposals. Check the original source and its dates before relying on a result.