Standard Features

TELICON Classic Service -

Basic service includes all of the features most people think of in a legislative tracking service including detailed bill histories, comprehensive information on each legislator including voting patterns, powerful search tools including boolean full-text searches and statutory reference searches, committee hearing schedules, floor calendars, detailed voting records and voting analysis, calendar of important dates and fundraisers, detailed committee news stories including indexed audio of each bill in each hearing, live calendar with real-time floor amendments, unlimited bill tracking, unlimited personal remarks on each bill, NIGHTWriter automated report generator, Lexis-Nexis, and much, much more...

Blue Book Legislative Roster -

This comprehensive pocket-size guide to the Texas Legislature, state officials and Congressional delegation provides phone numbers, office numbers, mailing addresses, staff information, seating charts, committee assignments and staff, district information, and much, much more...

Cumulative Report of Bills Filed by Subject -

This 300+ page book lists the bills, captions and authors of all legislation filed during the filing period and sorts them by one or more of 30 different subject areas.

Final Report -

This 300+ page book recaps the legislation that passed during the session, effective dates, statutes amended or repealed, vetoed legislation, interim studies authorized, bills passed by author, bills passed by subject, bills passed by number, a recap of the last action of all bills, and a statistics on this session and a comparison to previous sessions.

Candidate Profiles -

This book, which is available prior to the first primary election, has photographs and extensive biographical information on all candidates in legislative, statewide and congressional races. Bio information includes employment, educational, military, religious, hobby, volunteer and family information in addition to the name and address of the campaign treasurer.

TxALERT Paging Service - This real-time service automatically pages your own alphanumeric pager with a detailed message as soon as something happens to one of your key bills. Best of all, you can easily pick and choose the bills using the Bill Tracking Service, select one of 6 levels of service depending on which actions you prefer to be paged, and support up to 9 different pagers from just one tracking file. If you are lobbying in multiple states and you are using a regional or national paging service, TxALERT works concurrently with the paging services in Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana and Oklahoma so you can be paged anywhere if action happens on one of your bills in any of thoses states.

General Government - The service monitors the ongoing aspects of Texas government whether it be scheduled hearings of over 750 agencies and boards, attorney general opinions and requested opinions, candidate information and election results, rules and regulations of state agencies, Ethics Commission opinions and requests, and more...

Campaign Finance - This exclusive service tracks campaign contributions of $100 or more for all legislative races. Numerous reports can be generated and a variety of sort options are available. Information includes name, PAC, address, candidate, amount, filing period, date, party... Sorting methods include by date, amount, candidate name, election race, and zip code. There are three report styles to choose from including a brief, one-line report, a complete information report, and mailing labels. You can easily search for all contributions by a particular contributor or organization. Get that extra help you need during the session with Campaign Finance - only available from the Texas Legislative Service.

ATLAS - ATLAS stands for automated tracking of legislative analysis service. This tool, originally written for a large corporation with lobbying practices in four states, was used to distribute legislation to their analysts for their comments, track their progress, incorporate their remarks into the live reports created on the TELICON system, automatically forward subsequent bill versions to each analyst working on the bill, and notify the appropriate parties if deadlines were missed. Since its inception, over 2500 analysts use ATLAS as the lifeline to lobbyists. Organizations ranging from Fortune 100 companies and large agencies to boutique lobbying practices and small associations have taken advantage of the benefits of ATLAS. Call us at (512) 476-7596 or email us for more information.

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