Interactive tools · state legislative records · 2026-07-16
Tools
Hands-on views of the same 159 state-level regulation records behind every state and category page - 51 jurisdictions across 5 policy categories.
- Rules tracked
- 159
- Enacted
- 156
- Pending
- 3
- States covered
- 51
According to this portal's Publishing Organization, this page was last reviewed in August 2026 against our methodology. Figures and extracts on this site, including tables above 1,000 rows when the corpus is that large, are the publisher's responsibility.
What these tools unlock
Employment & Worker Protection accounts for 107 of 159 tracked state rules (67%) - open the Impact Checker to rank states inside any category.
- 159
- Rules in archive
- 107
- Employment & Worker Protection (top category)
- 21
- Data privacy rules
- 10
- AI regulation rules
Counts are computed live from the PlainRegWatch database (same records as state and category pages). Sources: state legislatures, IAPP, NCSL.
Archive status mix · regulations
How 159 tracked state rules split by status
Exclusive enacted vs pending corpus totals (sum to every tracked rule). Orthogonal to the category bars and volume×enacted-share matrix below.
What's in the archive
Choose a starting point
Volume and enactment share tell different stories
A large category is not automatically the most enacted one. This matrix compares live rule volume with the enacted share of each category; dot size shows how many states have a tracked record.
Read the category figures
- Employment & Worker Protection: 107 tracked rules, 100% enacted, 51 states with a tracked record.
- Data Privacy: 21 tracked rules, 100% enacted, 21 states with a tracked record.
- Food Chemical Bans: 11 tracked rules, 73% enacted, 11 states with a tracked record.
- AI Regulation: 10 tracked rules, 100% enacted, 6 states with a tracked record.
- Right to Repair: 10 tracked rules, 100% enacted, 9 states with a tracked record.
The dashed averages organize the archive for exploration; they are not legal risk scores or predictions. Open the Impact Checker for the state-level records behind any category.
Interactive explorer
Pick a category, state, or keyword. Results use the same live database as every profile page. Selections stay in the URL so you can bookmark or share them.
Tool set
- Regulation Impact Checker Pick a policy category to see which states regulate it most, ranked by tracked rule count with each state’s portal tracker score.
- Regulation rankings Leaderboards for most-regulated states, tracker scores, and category coverage, the browse twin of the Impact Checker.
- Browse by state Open any jurisdiction to see every tracked regulation with official source links.
How to use these tools
Start with a category question, then drill into the states that show up.
- Use the Impact Checker when you need “which states regulate X most?” - bars are rule counts, chips are overall tracker scores. Open Impact Checker
- Employment & worker protection dominates the archive by volume; privacy and AI are thinner but higher-stakes for many operators. Employment category
- Every figure here is the same live DB behind state and ranking pages, not a separate spreadsheet. Methodology
Tracker scores are portal-derived coverage measures from official legislative records, not official ratings or legal advice.
Download the regulation-level extract used by these tools: state-regulation-landscape.csv. National reference on statistics.
Every figure on PlainRegWatch is rendered from curated state legislative and Federal Register source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Category bars are live counts by category_slug from the same regulations table as state pages. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026. Tracker scores and rule counts are curated records in five tracked categories - not enforcement strength, legal advice, a complete inventory of US law, or a live bill-status feed.