Corrections

Last updated: August 2026

LegislationPatch corrects factual errors promptly and visibly. Accuracy is the point of the project: every analysis is built from official bill text and verified against it, claim by claim, before it is published. That process reduces errors but does not eliminate them, so when one is found it is fixed as soon as possible and recorded rather than quietly overwritten.

What counts as a correction

A correction is a change that fixes a factual error — a wrong figure, date, vote count, statutory citation, or a statement that misrepresents what a bill does. Routine copy edits, formatting changes, and updates that reflect new legislative activity (a bill advancing a stage, a new vote) are part of normal maintenance and are not logged here. Material factual errors are.

How to report an error

If you believe something on the site is factually wrong, you can report it via our public issue tracker. Please include the page or bill in question and, where possible, a pointer to the official source text (for example, the relevant section on Congress.gov) so the claim can be checked against the record quickly.

Corrections log

When a material factual error is corrected, it is logged here with the date, the page affected, and a short description of what changed. Under the site's 2026 content-accuracy program, the published analyses were re-verified against their source text; corrections arising from that program or from later reports are listed below.

• August 28, 2026 — Kids Online Safety Act tracker. In re-verifying the article against stored sources during its August 27 re-audit, a quotation attributed to APA chief executive Arthur C. Evans Jr. was found not to appear in the American Psychological Association page the article cited; that page does not mention him. The quotation was removed. Also removed, for the same reason: a quotation attributed to the ACLU that its cited source does not contain; three examples and the term “design features” attributed to the ACLU when the term appears in Electronic Frontier Foundation material; and four organizations named as coalition members by a source that names none. Every position in the article is now bound to a stored source or omitted; the full re-audit (124-claim ledger, 26 stored sources) accompanies the August 27 update.
• August 27, 2026 — NDAA FY2027 tracker. The August 26 update stated that the engrossed H.R. 8800 had been “transmitted to the Senate” and was “in the Senate’s hands.” The bill’s Congress.gov record shows no transmission or Senate action; the rule’s Section 11 directs the addition of the SAVE America Act text in engrossment, and the record frames the transmittal prospectively. The passage was reworded to match the record, and a sourced note that the record shows no Senate action yet was added.
• August 13, 2026 — Changelog editions for July 17 and August 12, 2026. Both editions identified H.R. 5334 as the “Supporting Early-childhood Educators’ Deductions Act of 2025.” The Senate had substituted the bill’s text, and H.R. 5334 is now the “Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026” — a measure on an entirely different subject. A changelog edition is a dated record and its stage history was accurate, but naming the bill by its superseded title misidentified what had advanced. Both entries now carry the current title alongside the historical one. The same annotation was applied to H.R. 915, whose title was refined from “Small Business Technological Act of 2025” to “Small Business Technological Advancement Act” (same measure; noted for completeness rather than as a material error). Cause: changelog editions are generated once and never rebuilt, so a later rename left them frozen. A check now verifies every published edition against the current bill record.