Stateside Associates provides state and local legislative monitoring and state, local, and federal regulatory monitoring backed by professionals who understand each client’s issues, priorities, and jurisdictions.
Our professionals identify and track relevant government activity, prepare customized summaries, and remain available for additional research and follow-up. StateLink Connect gives clients a centralized platform for reviewing legislative and regulatory activity, alerts, calendars, searches, and policy information.
What Are Stateside’s Legislative and Regulatory Monitoring Services?
Stateside’s monitoring services help clients identify, understand, and follow state and local legislative activity and state, local, and federal regulatory developments.
We are not a search engine or data aggregator. Our monitoring is performed by trained professionals who learn each client’s issues and the jurisdictions they monitor. These professionals prepare customized summaries on the client’s behalf and are available for additional research and follow-up.
StateLink Connect adds a personalized, cloud-based monitoring experience that makes it easier to see the bigger policy picture.
State and Local Legislative Monitoring
Stateside provides state and local legislative monitoring designed to support issue management activities.
Our team monitors and reports on:
- Bill introductions
- Bill tracking
- Amendments
- Floor proceedings
- Interim committees
- Introductions lists
- Chamber journals
- Committee notices
- Other legislative actions
Our professionals receive extensive training about each client, their issues, and the states they monitor. They prepare customized legislative summaries and are available for additional research and follow-up.
Prospects for the passage of pending bills and emerging issues are assessed through ongoing contact with state legislators, legislative staff, governors’ staff, executive branch officials, industry association staff, and local issue experts. Our team also reviews introductions lists, chamber journals, and committee notices daily.
The insight clients gain from this process helps them align resources with real threats and opportunities.
Effective state legislative monitoring requires issue knowledge, state knowledge, client knowledge, and the robust use of multiple information resources. At Stateside, issue expertise, state expertise, and client knowledge are hallmarks of our approach.
Regulatory Monitoring
The state and federal regulatory arena is complex and requires expertise in both subject matter and regulatory processes. Effective regulatory monitoring provides early notification about rulemaking activity and important engagement milestones.
Some regulatory developments are out of reach of search engines and algorithms and can only be identified through direct discussions with regulators and other agency officials. Effective regulatory research must therefore be conducted firsthand.
Stateside employs attorneys with administrative law and agency credentials who focus on this area of law. Our regulatory professionals produce highly customized and detailed accounts of emerging regulatory actions, rulemaking proceedings, agency guidance, and policy as they affect each client.
Stateside has more than two decades of experience monitoring state, local, and federal rulemakings and regulatory proceedings. Depending on the selected service, monitoring can follow regulatory activity from the earliest stages of departmental discussion through final rule promulgation and implementation.
Our regulatory monitoring can include:
- Enabling statutes
- Advance notices of rulemaking
- Preliminary proposals
- Stakeholder input
- Hearing and public comment notices
- Draft rules
- Register notices
- Agency guidance
- Enforcement practices
- Final rule promulgation and implementation
Our regulatory professionals prepare customized, detailed summaries of relevant statutes, regulations, agency guidance, and enforcement practices as they affect each client’s issues.
Stateside offers two levels of state regulatory monitoring service: Regulatory Forecasting and Regulation Alert.
Regulatory Forecasting: Identify Rulemaking Before Formal Publication
Regulatory Forecasting provides customized alerts about emerging state and local regulatory activity.
The process begins by alerting clients to regulatory initiatives during the discussion phase, before formal publication in a state register or on a government website. Once identified, each issue is actively monitored until the rule or guidance is published as final and effective.
Stateside Regulatory Counsel receives extensive training about each client, their issues, and the states they monitor. They have the experience to understand how regulatory activity will affect clients, how the process will unfold, and where opportunities to influence the process may arise. Regulatory Counsel is also available for client follow-up.
Regulation Alert: From State Register to Final Rulemaking
Regulation Alert provides clients with regulatory alerts when a rulemaking first appears in a state register or equivalent publication.
Relevant rulemakings are monitored and tracked through final rule promulgation and regulation implementation.
What Is StateLink Connect?
StateLink Connect is a cloud-based legislative and regulatory monitoring platform launched by Stateside Associates in partnership with Leadership Connect.
The platform combines state and local policy tracking, curated email alerts, advanced legislative search, shared calendars, personalized portals, and organization tools in one accessible workspace. Experienced policy professionals review monitored information and prepare customized summaries tailored to each client’s issue priorities.
StateLink Connect is accessible by as many users as your organization needs.
- No seat or user-based subscription fees
- No additional cost for adding users
- No integration with company systems
- Mobile access available
A Centralized View of the Policy Activity That Matters
Policy developments move quickly across jurisdictions, agencies, committees, and regulatory bodies. StateLink Connect brings the information your organization needs to monitor into one platform, making it easier to review activity and stay aligned around shared priorities.
Monitor Government Activity Across Jurisdictions
Follow state legislation, local government activity, rulemakings, and public utility commission activity from one centralized platform.
StateLink Connect helps your team maintain visibility across multiple areas of government activity without relying on disconnected monitoring systems.
Pair Monitoring Technology With Policy Expertise
StateLink Connect combines monitoring technology with policy professionals who review information captured across state and local legislation, rulemakings, regulatory actions, and other government developments.
These professionals create customized summaries tailored to each client’s issue priorities, helping teams focus on the developments most relevant to their organizations.
Receive Curated Policy Updates in Your Inbox
StateLink Connect delivers curated policy updates directly to your inbox on your preferred cadence.
Each batch alert summarizes bills that have moved and highlights new actions, status updates, and other changes. Your team can quickly review relevant developments without sorting through a continuous stream of individual notifications.
Manage Hearings, Meetings, and Policy Events
Bring upcoming committee hearings, board meetings, policy events, and other important dates into one centralized calendar.
The calendar can also include dates and reminders specific to your organization, helping your team maintain visibility into critical timelines and upcoming engagement opportunities.
Find Relevant Legislation Faster
StateLink Connect’s advanced search tools allow users to identify and refine legislation using specific monitoring criteria.
Each bill page provides:
- Bill details
- Sponsors
- Jurisdiction
- Current status
- Recent actions and changes
This centralized information supports more efficient legislative tracking and informed decision-making.
Create a Portal Around Your Organization’s Priorities
Personalized dashboards, custom search tools, and monitoring reports help your team focus on the issues and government activity most relevant to your organization.
StateLink Connect gives users a structured place to review activity, manage priorities, and access the information they need.
Keep Information Organized Across Your Team
Shared tags, priority flags, and sorting tools create a consistent system for organizing policy records.
Your team can categorize information around common priorities and more easily identify the legislation, rulemakings, meetings, and events that require attention.
Legislative and Regulatory Monitoring for Collaborative Teams
StateLink Connect is accessible by as many users as your organization needs, with no seat or user-based subscription fees.
Government affairs professionals, policy teams, regulatory experts, association staff, and government relations consultants can work from the same platform without limiting access to a small number of users. Because StateLink Connect is cloud-based, your organization can get started without integrating the platform into existing company systems.
Corporate Government Affairs Teams: Maintain visibility into legislative and regulatory developments relevant to organizational priorities.
Trade and Professional Associations: Monitor policy activity and keep internal teams aligned around the issues affecting members.
Public Policy and Regulatory Teams: Track legislation, rulemakings, hearings, meetings, and other important government activity.
Government Relations Consultants: Organize policy information and monitor developments across client priorities.
Frequently Asked Questions
What legislative and regulatory monitoring services does Stateside offer?
Stateside offers state and local legislative monitoring and state, local, and federal regulatory monitoring. Its regulatory services include Regulatory Forecasting, which identifies regulatory initiatives before formal publication, and Regulation Alert, which begins when a rulemaking appears in a state register or equivalent publication. Stateside also offers StateLink Connect, a cloud-based legislative and regulatory monitoring platform.
How is Stateside’s monitoring different from a search engine or data aggregator?
Stateside’s monitoring is performed by professionals who receive extensive training about each client, their issues, and the jurisdictions they monitor. These professionals prepare customized summaries and are available for additional research and follow-up.
What does Stateside’s legislative monitoring cover?
Stateside’s legislative monitoring includes bill introductions, bill tracking, amendments, floor proceedings, interim committees, introductions lists, chamber journals, committee notices, and other legislative actions.
What does Stateside’s regulatory monitoring cover?
Stateside monitors state, local, and federal rulemakings and regulatory proceedings. Monitoring can include enabling statutes, advance notices of rulemaking, preliminary proposals, stakeholder input, hearing and public comment notices, draft rules, register notices, agency guidance, enforcement practices, and final rules.
What is Regulatory Forecasting?
Regulatory Forecasting provides customized alerts about emerging state and local regulatory activity during the discussion phase, before formal publication in a state register or on a government website. Monitoring continues until the rule or guidance is published as final and effective.
What is Regulation Alert?
Regulation Alert provides regulatory alerts when a rulemaking first appears in a state register or equivalent publication. The rulemaking is then monitored through final promulgation and implementation.
What is StateLink Connect?
StateLink Connect is a cloud-based legislative and regulatory monitoring platform launched by Stateside Associates in partnership with Leadership Connect. It provides policy tracking, customized summaries, email alerts, legislative search, calendars, personalized portals, and organization tools.
What does StateLink Connect track?
StateLink Connect helps users monitor state and local legislation, local government activity, rulemakings, public utility commission activity, committee hearings, board meetings, policy events, and other important government developments.
How do StateLink Connect email alerts work?
StateLink Connect delivers curated policy updates in a batch email format on the organization’s preferred cadence. Alerts summarize bills that have moved and identify new actions, status updates, and other changes.
Who prepares the customized policy summaries?
Experienced policy professionals review monitored information and prepare customized summaries tailored to each client’s issue priorities.
Can StateLink Connect monitor regulatory activity?
Yes. StateLink Connect can be used to monitor rulemakings, public utility commission activity, and other relevant regulatory developments.
Does StateLink Connect track state and local policy?
Yes. StateLink Connect supports state and local government tracking.
How many people can use StateLink Connect?
StateLink Connect is accessible by as many users as your organization needs. There are no seat or user-based subscription fees.
Does StateLink Connect require integration with company systems?
No. StateLink Connect is cloud-based and does not require integration with existing company systems.
What information is included on a bill page?
Each bill page includes bill details, sponsors, jurisdiction, current status, and recent actions and changes.
How do users access StateLink Connect?
Users access StateLink Connect using an email-based numeric verification code instead of a traditional password. Once verified, users can remain signed in for up to 30 days.
Who launched StateLink Connect?
StateLink Connect was launched by Stateside Associates in partnership with Leadership Connect.
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