regulatory-compliance-guide

Regulatory Compliance Guide

A skill for mining regulatory texts, tracking regulatory changes, and conducting compliance research. Covers accessing regulatory databases, parsing regulatory language, change detection in regulations, compliance gap analysis, and computational policy analysis.

Regulatory Data Sources

US Federal Regulatory Data

Accessing Federal Register Data

import requests
from datetime import date, timedelta

class FederalRegisterClient:
    """Client for the Federal Register API."""

    BASE_URL = "https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1"

    def search_rules(self, query: str, agency: str = None,
                     date_from: str = None, per_page: int = 20) -> dict:
        """
        Search for rules and proposed rules in the Federal Register.
        """
        params = {
            "conditions[term]": query,
            "conditions[type][]": ["RULE", "PRORULE"],
            "per_page": per_page,
            "order": "newest",
        }
        if agency:
            params["conditions[agencies][]"] = agency
        if date_from:
            params["conditions[publication_date][gte]"] = date_from

        resp = requests.get(f"{self.BASE_URL}/documents", params=params)
        data = resp.json()
        return {
            "count": data.get("count", 0),
            "results": [
                {
                    "title": r["title"],
                    "document_number": r["document_number"],
                    "publication_date": r["publication_date"],
                    "agency_names": r.get("agency_names", []),
                    "type": r["type"],
                    "abstract": r.get("abstract", ""),
                    "html_url": r["html_url"],
                }
                for r in data.get("results", [])
            ],
        }

    def get_document(self, document_number: str) -> dict:
        """Retrieve full document details by document number."""
        resp = requests.get(
            f"{self.BASE_URL}/documents/{document_number}.json"
        )
        return resp.json()