diff --git a/cron/bills.php b/cron/bills.php
index 90ae7c4..c52cd9a 100644
--- a/cron/bills.php
+++ b/cron/bills.php
@@ -290,7 +290,10 @@
 	
 	if ($result === FALSE)
 	{
-		$log->put('Adding ' . $bill['number'] . ' failed. SQL: ' . $sql, 7);
+		$log->put('Adding ' . $bill['number'] . ' failed. Almost certainly, this means that '
+			. 'the legislator (' . $bill['chief_patron_id'] . ', '
+			. strtolower($bill['chief_patron']) . ') who filed this bill isn’t in the database. '
+			. 'SQL: ' . $sql, 7);
 		unset($hashes[$number]);
 	}