OpenStates MCP Connector for Claude

Equip your AI agent with the most comprehensive US state-level legislative intelligence via OpenStates. This unified server provides your agent with instant access to bills, legislators, and committee metadata across all 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico. Your agent can instantly search for specific legislation, audit legislator profiles, and retrieve committee memberships without you ever manually checking a government site. Whether you are tracking policy trends or verifying legislative actions, your agent acts as a dedicated political analyst through natural conversation.

What you can do

• Bill Discovery — Search for thousands of legislative bills by keyword, jurisdiction, and session.
• Legislator Auditing — Fetch complete profiles, contact information, and current roles for state legislators.
• Committee Intelligence — List all legislative committees in a jurisdiction and retrieve their detailed membership lists.
• Jurisdiction Lookup — List and inspect all supported states and jurisdictions to understand current legislative coverage.
• Deep Metadata — Retrieve detailed actions and versions for specific bills to analyze the legislative process.

How it works

1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your OpenStates API Key
3. Start managing your legislative intelligence from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client

Who is this for?

• Advocacy & Policy Teams — instantly monitor relevant bills and track legislator stances across different states.
• Journalists & Researchers — retrieve historical legislative data and committee memberships for reporting and analysis.
• IT & Civic Tech Developers — integrate clean legislative data into transparency tools and public dashboards.
• Citizens & Constituents — stay updated on local legislative actions and find contact info for their representatives.
• Legal Professionals — verify the current status and versions of state-level legislation.