Every Public Law passed by Congress 1989-2026 — the canonical record of US federal legislation. Each Public Law has a citation (P.L. 119-88), title, Congress, enacted date, and links to the full PDF + HTML text on GovInfo. Coverage: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, CHIPS Act, Inflation Reduction Act, Affordable Care Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, USA PATRIOT Act, Dodd-Frank, Build Back Better, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, NDAA every year, every Appropriations Act. Distribution: Congress 106 (1999-2000) 604 laws, Congress 108 504, Congress 109 483, Congress 110 460, Congress 115 443, Congress 105 404, etc. Source: api.govinfo.gov/collections/PLAW (US Government Publishing Office). schema.org/Legislation JSON-LD with legislationIdentifier, jurisdiction=United States, dateEnacted.

Live API

This dataset is served via a live REST API at api.ai-analytics.org. The card you're reading exists so HuggingFace's index can route AI agents + researchers to the canonical source.

API endpoint: https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/laws/recent
Dataset landing page: https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/public-laws
DataCatalog (JSON-LD): https://api.ai-analytics.org/.well-known/dataset.json
DCAT-US (data.gov-compatible): https://api.ai-analytics.org/data.json

Quick start

# Recent records (JSON)
curl 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/laws/recent?limit=10'

# Browse on the web
open 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/public-laws'

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

This dataset is also accessible via MCP at https://api.ai-analytics.org/mcp — Claude, ChatGPT, and other MCP-compatible agents can call it directly.

Source

Agency: US Congress / GovInfo
Primary source: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/plaw
License: CC0 1.0 Universal (derived data). Underlying federal works are US public domain under 5 USC 105 / 17 USC 105.
Update cadence: Per agency (most refresh daily via Cloudflare Cron Trigger)

Keywords

Public Law, P.L., Pub. L., US Congress legislation, federal statute, Statutes at Large, GovInfo, Congress.gov, Title 26, appropriations

Citation

@misc{ai_analytics_public_laws_2026,
  title  = {{name}},
  author = {AI Analytics},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/public-laws},
  note   = {Derived from US Congress / GovInfo. License: CC0 1.0.}
}

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US Public Laws (5,985 across Congresses 101-119, 1989-2026)