When you click into any source in the Responsiv regulatory library — from Deep Research citations, Obligation links, Policy Scanner results, or the library itself — you land in the Regulatory Document Viewer. The viewer is where you read the underlying law, regulation, bill, or agency rulemaking that powers everything else in Responsiv.
The viewer is designed around a simple goal: show the authoritative text the way the issuing government publishes it, while layering in the structure, navigation, and workflow that make it usable in a compliance workflow.
Every document opened in the viewer includes:
The library spans several document types — including statutes, bills, regulations, rulemaking, guidance, and enforcement actions. The most common are described below; each renders a little differently in the viewer because each is published differently by the issuing government.
The enacted law as it currently stands — U.S. Code, state codes, and equivalent sources internationally. Many statutes are presented as a navigable tree (Title → Chapter → Section → Subsection), though structure varies by source and jurisdiction.
Legislative instruments that create or change statutes. Bills are typically published with their own internal markup conventions — some jurisdictions natively redline, others do not. The viewer preserves the issuing legislature's formatting where available, and falls back to AI-generated change requirements where it is not.
Agency rules in their final form — the CFR federally and equivalent state regulatory codes. Like statutes, regulations often render as a navigable tree, though structure varies by source.
Federal Register, state registers, and the analogous publications by which agencies propose, finalize, and explain regulatory changes. These are typically published as discrete notices rather than as part of a code, so the viewer presents them as standalone documents with the agency's accompanying preamble, comments summary, and effective dates.