Montgomery County Council Legislative Bills and Voting Records

Montgomery County Council provides an inventory of legislative bills introduced for consideration. The dataset includes columns for bill details, sponsors, actions, and full council vote tallies. It was last updated by data.montgomerycountymd.gov in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze legislative efficiency by modeling time from Introduction Date to Effective Date using regression.
• Identify influential council members by clustering bills based on Sponsor(s) and Co-Sponsor(s) fields and their final passage Status.
• Predict bill outcome (Status) from features like Yeas, Nays, and Abstain vote counts using classification models.
• Track policy focus areas over time by applying topic modeling to the Title column and grouping by Introduction Date.

Strengths

• Contains detailed legislative process tracking with over 25 specific columns including votes and dates.
• Offers machine-readable formats like CSV and JSON for programmatic access.

Limitations

• Unknown total row count prevents assessment of dataset scale and potential sample size issues.
• Lacks explicit temporal coverage details (time_range) to determine historical depth or recency of records.

Provenance

Source

data.montgomerycountymd.gov

Collection Method

Official inventory of council legislative bills.

Freshness

Last updated April 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Geography

Montgomery County, Maryland, USA