Pro Tier Module
Regulatory Watch - new/changed rulemaking since a date (keyless)
Watch the Federal Register for new or changed rulemaking since a date - keyless, on demand, no AI.
This tool runs inside GDBS Pro. What it computes and the authorities it applies are below.
The problem
Tracking new and changed rulemaking for an agency or CFR part means repeatedly combing the Federal Register, and most monitoring services charge subscriptions or rank with opaque models.
The local-first solution
A keyless, deterministic watch queries the Federal Register through the GDBS server proxy and reports rulemakings published on or after your since-date, newest-first with the official link, surfacing exactly what the source returned with no AI or scoring.
What it does
Define a watch by agency, CFR title/part, free-text term, and a since-date
Reports proposed/final rules and notices published on or after the since-date
Sorted newest-first, each with its official Federal Register link
Optional matching eCFR codified text as a jumping-off link
Quick-pick presets for typical regulatory watches
Bindable as a Worklog input or trigger that writes a 'what changed since' summary back to a case
Honest scope
Keyless and on-demand polling, not a server cron - freshness is the moment you last ran it. New/changed is computed by publication date, an activity feed of rulemaking, not a semantic diff of codified text. No AI, no ranking, no scoring, no legal advice; a quiet result means nothing matched in this source, not that nothing happened.
Authorities cited
- Federal Register API (federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1). Public, keyless. Daily journal of the U.S. government - proposed/final rules and notices. NEW/CHANGED is computed by publication_date.
- Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR) search API (ecfr.gov/developers/documentation/api/v1). Public, keyless. Current codified regulation text - used here only as a jump-to-the-part link, not as a between-dates text diff.
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Set up the watch
Run the regulatory watch in your browser and route the 'what changed since' summary into a Sandbox set or a Worklog case. You supply no key, and nothing is uploaded to anyone's cloud.