How to Use Keyword Filters in GovBuddy

Filter by Keywords

Include all Keywords

• Purpose: Use this to only find bills that contain all the keywords you enter.
  
  
• Example: Typing climate and education here will only show bills that include both terms.
  
  

 Include at least one Keyword

• Purpose: This finds bills that match any one of the keywords you list.
  
  
• Example: Typing transportation, highway, rail will show bills with any of those keywords.
  
  

 Exclude Keywords

• Purpose: Use this to remove any bills that contain certain words you don’t want to see.
  
  
• Example: Typing tax here means any bill mentioning “tax” will be excluded from your results.
  
  

Proximity Search

• Purpose: Proximity search helps you find keywords that appear close together in the bill text.
• Example:  If you enter: people w/2 state, the system searches for:
  
  

• The word "people" within 2 words of the word "state"
  
  
• This allows for variations like: "people in the state" or "people of the state"
  
  

Keywords like people, state are treated independently if not linked with /w2 or similar syntax.

Syntax tip:

• w/2 means "within 2 words"
  
  
• You can use other ranges too, e.g., education w/5 funding (finds "education" within 5 words of "funding")