Look up legislative committee hearing details, including date, time, location and associated bills.
How to navigate to the Hearings page in Plural
To look up committee hearing information in Plural, first navigate to the Explorer page.
Once on the Explorer page, you can navigate to the hearings page for a particular jurisdiction in one of two ways:
1. From the map image, click on your desired jurisdiction and then click the number found to the right of "Hearings Available" or;
2. Navigate to the Jurisdiction menu found towards the top right corner of the Explorer page, and select the desired jurisdiction.
Once on the page of the desired jurisdiction click the number found to the right of "Hearings Available."
How to search within the Hearings page
From the hearings page, you can filter hearing events by their associated committee(s), by legislative session, by the date of the hearing event, and/or by workspace -- allowing you to isolate only the hearing events where your tracked bills are on the agenda.
Tip: If you don't see a committee listed in the provided dropdown menu, you can click your cursor into the committee dropdown and search for committee by keyword.
How to view your tracked bills on the Hearings page
In addition to using the workspace filter at the top of the page, you can easily see which bills you're tracking by looking for the orange indicator next to a bill's ID number. Click on this indicator to open a bill card, where you can track or untrack, or tag or untag, the bill. This card will also display key information like the bill status, bill title, and relevant committees. You can also click on the full bill name (in bolded black text) to open the bill page in a new tab.
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