Public and Private Laws (PLAW)
active Ingestion health: degraded Legislative · Tier 1 · govinfo collection · U.S. Congress
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What this source is
After a bill becomes law by presidential signature or veto override, the Government Publishing Office publishes the enacted text as a slip law. This collection carries public and private law text, typically appearing weeks after enactment; same-day text is available through the BILLS enrolled stage.
Identity and registry record
- Registry id
govinfo-plaw- Agency / parent organization
- U.S. Congress
- Branch
- legislative
- Type
- govinfo collection
- Status
- active
- Tier
- 1
- URL (collection)
- https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/PLAW (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2026-07-26
- Registry notes
- Coverage (gate 3, backfilled 2026-07-30): the complete enacted-laws record, delta-only from 2026-07-25 (deeper history via bulkdata if ever needed). No packages listed in the window yet — govinfo has published no slip law since activation, so the digest's Enacted Laws section correctly renders its empty state.
How we ingest it
- Channel
- govinfo collection
- Method
- Syncs via the govinfo collections API delta mechanism (activated 2026-07-28, delta-only).
- Poll cadence
- about every 30 minutes while the collector runs
- Request budget
- the govinfo class: at most 6,000 requests per day and 500 per hour, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too); collectors stop at 85% so the end-of-day finalizer always has headroom
- Politeness
- keyed govinfo API access; every request is logged before it is made and identified as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com)
- Capture and hash
- captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)
Ingestion health
Ingestion health: degraded 5846 of 20458 request(s) to api.govinfo.gov returned no content (28.6%, at or above the 10% mark).
This label has held since 2026-08-03T18:46:01Z (UTC) and was last re-checked 2026-08-03T19:51:47Z (UTC).
Counts are of our own requests, retries included. A 4xx or 5xx is the server declining to return content — that may be load, maintenance, on-demand generation, or a limit the publisher sets, and we cannot tell which from outside. Nothing here is a measurement of the publisher.
Ingestion statistics
These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.
Last 24 hours
Last 24 hours: 1,105 request(s) (830 answered, 275 returned no content) · no items ingested
Last 14 days
Items ingested: none in the last 14 days — none recorded in the lookback period
Our requests to api.govinfo.gov: 20,458 request(s) · 14,612 answered · 1 declined (4xx) · 5,841 server declined (5xx) · 4 no response — 28.6% returned no content
last answered request 2026-08-03T19:44:10.465+00:00 UTC; this host serves 5 registered sources, so these figures are host-wide.
5846 of 20458 request(s) to api.govinfo.gov returned no content (28.6%, at or above the 10% mark).
All time
Our requests to api.govinfo.gov, all time (since 2026-07-30): 17,998 request(s) · 12,352 answered · 5,646 returned no content
This host serves 5 registered sources, so these figures are host-wide.
Request counts begin 2026-07-30, the day this service went into production; earlier development-machine traffic is excluded. Counts before 2026-08-03 include unmarked source-probe traffic; probes are labeled and excluded thereafter.
Last 30 days, day by day
| Day | requests |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-30 | 2000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 5100 |
| 2026-08-01 | 6000 |
| 2026-08-02 | 4062 |
| 2026-08-03 | 836 |
| Day | ms |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-30 | 639 |
| 2026-07-31 | 539 |
| 2026-08-01 | 342 |
| 2026-08-02 | 495 |
| 2026-08-03 | 705 |