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FOR LEGISLATURES AND LEGISLATIVE STAFF
Synced from the official legislative record · Salesforce Government Cloud
More bills covered by the same staff — during session, not in the interim
Introduction, substitute, amendment and engrossment, read and compared
Each member’s work product stays their own, on top of a shared public record
Deployed on Salesforce Government Cloud, inside the chamber’s own tenant
THE PROBLEM
A bill is amended in committee, substituted on the floor and engrossed — and the version a member is briefed on is two behind what they will vote on.
A substitute replaces the text wholesale and the bill keeps its number. Unless somebody reads both versions line by line, the subject change goes unnoticed until the vote.
Fiscal impact, sister-state approaches and district effects are all answerable — in three days. The vote is tomorrow.
A member’s draft language, memos and talking points cannot sit in a shared folder the whole chamber can read. Most tools have no answer for that.
01 · TRACKING
Bills, sponsorships, committee membership, events and actions pulled from the chamber’s own data and the standard legislative feeds, kept current through the session.
Introduction, committee substitute, floor amendment and engrossment read against each other, with what changed stated in words rather than as a redline you still have to interpret.
When a substitute replaces the substance of a bill that keeps its number, it is flagged as a subject change — with the old subject, the new one and the statutes now in play.
Track by bill, sponsor, committee, subject or keyword. Movement on anything tracked arrives as a morning digest rather than as a surprise on the calendar.
Hearings, floor action, deadlines and committee agendas against the bills that matter to this member or this caucus.
2–3×
more bills covered by the same staff — during session, not in the interim.
02 · DRAFTING
New sections drafted from intent, or existing language amended against the current version of the statute with the strike-and-insert formatting the chamber uses.
Committee reports, hearing summaries, question sets for testimony and briefing memos, assembled from the bill and the record around it.
Drafting runs against the state’s statutes as they exist today, with the affected sections identified and conflicts with pending bills flagged.
Position letters and responses drafted in the member’s own voice, with the bill’s actual content behind them rather than a template.
Draft, amend and reply without leaving the tools legislative staff already live in — the plug-ins put Fortress in the inbox and the document.
03 · RESEARCH
How other legislatures approached the same subject, what they enacted, what happened afterward — with the statutes and the sources cited.
Drafted from the bill text and the fiscal record, with the assumptions written down so a member can argue with the number rather than just receive it.
A four-hundred-page omnibus broken into what it does, what it changes, and what each member is actually voting on — section by section.
What a bill does to a specific district, assembled from the bill and the data behind it rather than from a caucus talking-points sheet.
Each statement links back to the bill section, statute or source it came from. Nothing is asserted without something behind it.
04 · THE RECORD
Roll calls across sessions, searchable by member, bill, subject or committee — on the member record, not in a spreadsheet somebody maintains.
Agendas, minutes and transcripts filed to the bill and summarized, so a member walking in late knows what has already been said.
Proponent and opponent testimony summarized, with the factual claims pulled out and checked against the record where they can be.
How a caucus has moved on a subject over time, where the votes have been close, and which committees are where bills go to die.
Public coverage of a tracked bill surfaced on the bill record itself, so the political context sits next to the legislative one.
05 · PRIVACY
Bills, sessions, committees, legislators and votes are one shared, read-only layer. Everyone works from the same facts and nobody maintains a private copy.
Drafts, memos, research, talking points and AI output live in a member’s own workspace, invisible to other members and to staff outside that office.
Privacy does not leak upward through the org chart. Leadership does not silently inherit access to a member’s work because of where they sit.
Staffers see what their member’s office is working on and nothing else, including on bills the whole chamber is tracking.
What the AI drafts is stored as private work product on the same terms as anything else — it does not become a shared artifact because a model produced it.
06 · HOW IT FITS
Option A · End to end
WHO THIS FITS
Chambers on an end-of-life system, chambers without a real one, and legislatures consolidating several office-level systems onto one platform.
Option B · Ride-along
Fortress on top of the system you already run
WHO THIS FITS
Chambers mid-contract on a vendor system, chambers that just finished an implementation, and legislatures that want the AI benefit without reopening a platform decision.
Identical either way
The AI does not change with the deployment model. What changes is only where the bill record lives.
Every bill, every version
Bills and amendments
Fifty-state and fiscal
Votes, hearings, testimony
Work product stays yours
SECURITY AND RECORDKEEPING
Deployed on Salesforce Government Cloud in the chamber’s environment — not a shared consumer service and not a vendor-hosted copy of the legislative record.
Chamber material and member work product are not used to train models, in language procurement and counsel can both read.
What is a public record and what is member work product is modeled explicitly, so an open-records response is a query rather than a fire drill.
Configured to the chamber’s records schedule, including drafts and AI output, so retention is a setting rather than a habit.
Who accessed what, when, and what the AI relied on — logged, exportable and reviewable by the chamber’s own auditors.
The record persists across sessions and across turnover, so institutional knowledge does not leave with a staffer in January.
DEPLOYMENT
01
2–4 WEEKS
Bills, sessions, committees, legislators and votes synced and reconciled. The chamber’s own data, current and queryable, before anyone is asked to use it.
02
2–3 WEEKS
Member and committee workspaces, privacy boundaries, templates and watchlists set up office by office.
03
ONE SESSION
Offices work the real calendar on Fortress. Bills covered, turnaround on research and what leadership could see, all measured against the last session.
04
CHAMBER-WIDE
Additional offices, the other chamber, and central staff added on the same platform with the privacy model intact.
Procurement
Fortress is a Salesforce ISV partner and is purchased through Salesforce paper — typically one Government Cloud license plus platform licenses for members and staff. Named Salesforce Partner of the Year for System of Agency, 2027.
WHERE THIS STANDS
One week
No systems touched
You keep the output
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