Via Daniel Schuman, The Sunlight Foundation: “SCOUT is a new free alert service that allows you search and create email or text alerts on legislation shaping issues you care about in Congress and across all fifty states. Scout also makes it easy to search federal regulations and what is actually said by lawmakers in the Congressional Record.

• Set up alerts and subscribe to receive updates from Congress, state legislatures and more via email or SMS text.
• Search through every bill and regulation in the federal government.
• Be notified when Congress plans to vote on a bill.
• Follow and search bills in all 50 states; powered by the Open States project.
• Import an RSS feed to complement issue alerts.”