The Account Settings > Preferences page is the center for managing notification preferences for all your Issues. On this page, you may

• Set the Default as your notification preference
  • Choose Issues
  • Choose Legislatures
  • Legislation
  • Scheduled Committee Hearings
  • Federal Regulations
  • Comment Periods
  • State Regulations
• Create or Edit your own notification preferences

Please note that that FiscalNote sends email notifications regarding updates to monitored legislation or regulations from the United States. Monitored legislation and regulation from countries besides the United States is not currently included in notification preferences for Issues.

Default Notification Preferences

The Default is the one notification preference configuration that cannot be deleted. To manage the configuration of the Default, click the pencil icon  on the right side of the Default's row in your list of preferences.

Follow the steps outlined below to update your Default.

Choose Issues

• Choose the Issue to which you want to apply the Default
  • No Issues
  • All Issues
  • Specific Issues
    • Choosing this option will require you to individually select Issues
    • A pop-up menu with a scroll bar will appear, showing you all the Issues to which you have access
    • Select an Issue by clicking the checkbox to the left of its name
    • When you finish making selections, press the Apply button to complete the process of choosing the Issues to which the Default will apply.

Choose Legislatures

• Select the United States Legislatures to include in the Default
  • Click the downward facing carat next to "Select Legislatures to scroll through a list of the legislatures on which FiscalNote can notify you
  • Select a legislature by clicking the checkbox to the left of its name
  • When you finish making selections, press the Apply button to complete the process of choosing the Legislature to include within the Default.
  • Alternatively, press "Select All" to include all legislatures on which FiscalNote can notify you.
  • The selections you make in this area determine the states on which FiscalNote will update you for both Legislation and State Regulation

Legislation

• In this area, you control how FiscalNote will notify you about the legislation that you are monitoring in the Issues you previously selected
• Determine the types of updates you would like to receive
  • Select which of the following types of updates you would like to receive...
    • All
    • Passed First Chamber
    • Pass Second Chamber
    • Vetoed
    • Failed
    • Enacted
    • Other
      • Other includes more specific changes to the legislation, beyond the statuses shown above, such as
        • Change in Bill Title
        • Change in Timeline (e.g. "Passed First Chamber")
        • Change in Actions (e.g. "Committee on Environment moved bill for further consideration")
        • Change in Legislator Sponsors 
        • Change in Committee Sponsors (for those bills that have a committee, not a legislator, as a sponsor)
  • ...and how often you would like to receive the updates
    • 4 hourly
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Never

Scheduled Committee Hearings

• Choose whether to receive Committee Hearing updates relevant to your monitored legislation
  • Mark the checkbox for "New Hearings" and under "Notify me..." choose "Hourly" or "Daily" to receive updates on committee hearings for bills that you are monitoring

Federal Regulations

• Choose whether to receive updates on Federal Regulations and how often
  • Select which of the following updates you would like to receive...
    • All
    • Notice
    • Rule
    • Propose Rule
    • Supporting
    • Other (includes more specific changes to the legislation, beyond the statuses shown above)
  • ...and how often you would like to receive the updates
    • 4 hourly
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Never

Comment Periods

• Choose whether to receive updates on Comment periods for United States Federal Regulations you are monitoring
  • Mark the checkboxes for "Comment Period Open" and "Public Comment Extension"
  • For "Notify me..." choose "Daily"
  • This selection will allow you to receive updates on comment periods for United States Federal Regulations that you are monitoring

State Regulation

• Choose whether to receive updates on United States State Regulation and how often
  • To receive notifications, mark the checkbox for "New Notices"
  • And for "Notify me..." choose one of the following
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Never

• Press "Submit" to complete the changes to the Default

Creating and Editing custom notification preferences

The process for creating and editing configurations for custom notification preferences is very similar to the process for managing the Default. The chief difference is that you may assign a name of your choice to the custom preference.

To create a new preference, click the +Add button. 

To edit an existing preference, click the pencil icon for the preference.  

Follow the process outlined in Default Notification Preference to adjust the settings of your custom notification preference. Note that an Issue assigned to both the Default and a custom notification preference will only adhere to the custom notification preference.