Interactive tool
Regulation Impact Checker
Pick a policy category to see which US states regulate it most heavily, ranked by the number of tracked state rules, with each state's overall portal tracker score for context. Your last selection is remembered and shareable.
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- Policy categories
- 97
- Rules analyzed
- 51
- States covered
How to read this
A taller bar means more tracked rules in that category, not necessarily a higher tracker score overall.
- Bars rank states by the count of tracked rules in the chosen category; the chip shows the state’s overall 0–100 portal tracker score.
- Some categories (like data privacy) are one comprehensive law per state, there the ranking reflects breadth of coverage, not rule count.
- Open any state to see every regulation it tracks and the official source for each. Browse states
Figures reflect regulations currently tracked from official state legislative records; this tool is general information, not legal advice.
Every figure on PlainRegWatch is rendered from curated state legislative and Federal Register source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Figures on this page come from the curated five-category archive. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. 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.