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Real-Time
Alert System

In legislative affairs, timing is everything. Configure custom alerts for the events that matter most and receive them through the channels you prefer—email, SMS, push notifications, or in-app.

Your Way, Your Channels

Multi-Channel Delivery

Choose how you receive alerts. Every notification channel can be individually configured with its own preferences, so you get critical updates immediately while routine notifications arrive in a convenient digest.

Email Alerts

Detailed email notifications with bill context, action summaries, and direct links. Choose real-time delivery or batched digests—hourly, daily, or weekly.

SMS Notifications

Get text message alerts for critical updates when you're away from your desk. Perfect for urgent bill movements during active session days.

Push Notifications

Browser and mobile push notifications for instant awareness. See alerts the moment they happen without checking email or opening the app.

In-App Notifications

Real-time notification bell in the app header. See unread alert counts, click through to relevant bills, and mark as read—all without leaving your workflow.

Precision Control

Custom Alert Rules

Not all legislative events are equally important to you. Create custom alert rules that trigger on exactly the events you care about—and assign priority levels so critical updates always stand out.

Event-Based Triggers

Status changes, committee referrals, hearing schedules, floor votes, amendments filed, and more

Keyword Matching

Get alerted when new bills are filed matching your keywords—automatically discover relevant legislation

Priority Classification

Assign Critical, High, Medium, or Low priority to alert rules—critical alerts always break through

Watchlist-Scoped Alerts

Configure alerts per watchlist—different clients can have different alert settings

Fully Configurable

Set your own rules, your own channels, your own schedule—total control over your legislative intelligence

Smart Scheduling

Get alerts when you want them—real-time for critical updates, digests for the rest

Work-Life Balance

Digest Options & Quiet Hours

Not every alert needs to interrupt your day. Choose between real-time delivery and consolidated digests, and set quiet hours so notifications respect your off-time.

Hourly Digests

Consolidated summary of all alerts from the past hour—great during active session days

Daily & Weekly Summaries

Morning briefing emails with everything that happened since your last digest

Quiet Hours

Set do-not-disturb hours for push and SMS—alerts queue up silently until your quiet period ends

Per-Type Configuration

Enable or disable specific alert types independently—bill updates, hearings, votes, keyword matches

Complete Coverage

Alert Types

Every significant legislative event can trigger an alert. From bill filings to final votes, you decide what deserves your attention.

Bill Status Changes

Filed, referred, reported favorably, passed committee, passed chamber, enrolled, signed into law.

Hearing Schedules

Get notified when hearings are scheduled, rescheduled, or cancelled for your tracked bills.

Vote Results

Committee votes, floor votes, and roll call results—know the outcome as soon as it happens.

Keyword Matches

New bills filed matching your keywords. Discover relevant legislation before anyone else does.

Amendment Activity

Amendments filed, adopted, or withdrawn. Know when bill language changes before the vote.

Budget Updates

Budget conference reports, appropriation changes, and gubernatorial vetoes on funding items.

See It in Action

Never Miss a Legislative Moment

Schedule a demo to see how LobbyScape's alert system keeps you ahead of every legislative development—with the right information, through the right channel, at the right time.