Corrections

Last updated: October 2026

LegislationPatch labels and logs factual errors visibly. Accuracy is the point of the project: every analysis is built from official bill text and checked against it before it is published. That process reduces errors but does not eliminate them. In October 2026 we found errors on published analyses that it had missed, and we are rebuilding our accuracy checks. Until that work is finished, a page with a confirmed error carries an “Under review” label and is listed below; its text is corrected in our next verified pass over the site and recorded here, never 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.

• October 6, 2026 — H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026. A funding figure is attributed to the wrong program; the money is for Head Start. Under review.
• October 6, 2026 — H.R. 6938, Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026. A funding figure is shown without its fiscal year; it is fiscal 2027 money. Under review.
• October 6, 2026 — H.R. 2808, Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act. The summary and short description leave out a required condition on an exception (a firm offer of credit or insurance). Under review.
• October 6, 2026 — Search and link-preview descriptions (site-wide). On some pages, the short description shown in search results and link previews is cut mid-sentence and can drop a condition. Being fixed across the site.
• September 2, 2026 — Site-wide source audit. Between August 30 and September 3, every article on the site was re-verified against primary sources through the claim-ledger process described on our methodology page. Errors were corrected on each page and are reflected in its updated date. The most serious: a passage presented as verbatim text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 that does not appear in the law; a word quoted to Sen. Ed Markey that appears only in a press-office headline; an argument attributed to the Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding that its cited page does not make; positions attributed to the National Community Pharmacists Association and the American Diabetes Association without a source (the ADA’s was later restored with one); a cost estimate attributed to CBO that appears in no CBO document; and a determination attributed to the Bureau of Land Management that was made in a Forest Service notice. Wrong or unsourced figures, dates, and procedural descriptions were corrected throughout. Verification is now enforced at publication: no article can be published or refreshed without a converged source ledger, quotations are machine-verified against stored sources, and external citations are link-checked.
• 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.