Legislative Review AI Tool
Minnesota IT Services and the Department of Revenue built an AI-powered bill-review system on tools the state already owned — SharePoint, Microsoft Azure, and a secure government instance of OpenAI — with no new infrastructure or vendor contracts.
A web scraper monitored the Minnesota
Legislative Revisor’s website and captured newly
introduced bills in real time. These bills were queued in SharePoint,
then routed through Azure Functions where
a custom OpenAI prompt analyzed, tagged,
and summarized each bill. Results, including
relevance scores and summaries, were returned to
SharePoint for immediate staff review.
The system processes bills in parallel at speeds up
to 100 bills per minute. ChatGPT evaluates each
bill’s content for relevance, statutory changes, and
impact across divisions.