ca-leginfo-mcp
An MCP server for California statutes and legislation, built on theLegislature's official public bulk-data channel(downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov).
Lets an attorney's AI tool:
- Verify statutory text from source — current text, history note, andeffective date for any section of the 29 California codes or theConstitution
- Flag pending bills that would amend, repeal, or add a given section
- Retrieve legislative history — from a code section to its enactingand amending bills and their committee/floor analyses, back to 1993
Status
Phases 1–2 (ingest pipeline + archives) complete. Theingest/ package builds both corpus artifacts from thepubinfo bulk zips:
current.db(~40 s nightly): current law + 2025–26 session, FTS,parsed bill→section refs, analysis text — with a sanity gate thatblocks bad artifacts (python -m ingest build/sanity).archive.db(4.7 GB, 18 sessions 1989–2023, ~35 min once):283k bill version texts, 371k text-extracted committee/floor analyses,votes, vetoes, ~1M parsed section refs, per-session coverage matrix(python -m ingest build-archive).
Next per SPEC.md: MCP server (Phase 3), deployment (Phase 4).The feasibility spike that preceded the build is preserved inspike/ — see SPIKE_FINDINGS.md.
Data source
All data derives from the California Legislature's public "pubinfo" bulkdownloads — the sanctioned distribution channel for this data (thecapublic schema published at downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov).No scraping is involved.
This is an unofficial convenience mirror. Statute text refreshesweekly (bills daily); every response carries its extract dates. For courtfilings, verify against the official publication.
Disclaimer
This tool retrieves law; it does not give legal advice.
