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Plain-English legislative tracking, built for your state.

We build persona-matched bill trackers that turn legislative jargon into a plain answer: does this affect me, and how. Delaware's is live. We build the next one for you.

DOVER DASH ยท DELAWARE HB 411
Alcoholic Liquors & Marijuana

Marijuana Division Renaming Bill

Renames the state's Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement to include marijuana oversight, a change worth knowing if your business holds a liquor or tobacco license, even though it isn't a new regulation.

Ready for Governor · 6/17/26

This is a real, live match from civicdelaware.com, not a mockup.

Vil Ramunno
Vil Ramunno
Founder, Capitol Watch USA & Civic Delaware

Over a decade researching, writing, and editing Delaware policy, most recently as Vice President of Communications & Operations at a Delaware policy organization, with deep, specific focus on education, energy, healthcare, and taxes & budgets. That research work continues today, alongside building and running Dover Dash. This isn't a generic tracker built by an outsider to the subject; it's the natural next step of work already spent translating complex Delaware policy into plain language a general reader can actually use, now built to do that automatically, at the scale of an entire legislative session.

The case for building with us, not from scratch

Not a promise: a working product, and the reasoning behind why that matters more than a pitch deck.

Already working, not theoretical

Dover Dash is live, tracking a full legislative session, matching real bills to real people. You're evaluating something that exists, not a concept.

Legislative process expertise, not just code

Correctly reading a bill's actual status, including which leg of a constitutional amendment it's on and whether it's truly final, takes real domain knowledge, not just a scraper.

Data you can verify, by design

Every bill links to its official source. Every claim can be checked. That discipline is built into how this is engineered, not added on afterward.

Built to move at the speed a session moves

Legislative sessions don't wait for a slow build. This was built and refined in real time, against a real, moving legislative calendar.

Simple enough for anyone to actually use

No jargon to decode, no training needed. Pick a profile, or search by topic, and get a plain answer. Built for a real person checking it on a break, not a power user.

Built with accessibility in mind

Keyboard navigable, with clear focus states throughout, so it works for people who don't or can't use a mouse, not just an afterthought bolted on at the end.

Delaware becomes the first state, again.

Every legislature has its own quirks, its own rhythm, its own way of doing things, so this was never going to be a copy-paste job. Delaware's the first one built, and it's real, running, and live right now. Yours could be next.

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Tell us what you're trying to track

A state legislature, a specific issue area, a set of committees: tell us the shape of the problem and we'll tell you honestly whether this is a fit.

What you get is plain, standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, not a proprietary platform. Your own IT or web team can take it over and maintain it anytime, no dependency on us to keep it running.

Whether you know exactly what you need or aren't sure yet, we can build something customized. Feel free to inquire.

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