Bills & Laws
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THOMAS -Full Text of Bills is the legislative service from the Library of Congress. Covers the 104th Congress (1995) to date.
Congressional Bills is the official site by the Government Printing Office. Covers the 103rd Congress (1993) to date.
Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. Covers volumes from 140 (1994) to the present.
United States Constitution is the base of all laws.
Findlaw version of the United States Constitution breaks it down by Articles and Amendments.
California Bills provides the text all bills introduced in the Assembly and Senate of California since 1993.
Laws & Regulations by the State of California is a nice directory to all the laws, bills, codes and regulations of California.
THOMAS: Public Laws by Congress provides the public laws only since the 93rd Congress (1973).
GPO: Public Laws is the official site by the Government Printing Office and covers the all the private and public laws since the 104th Congress (1995).
U.S. Code (searchable or browsable) by the U.S. House of Representatives provides the laws codified or in subject order.
United States Code by Cornell Law School provides version of the Code.
Statutes of California by the Legislator provides the chapters of California Laws since 1993.
California Code provides for the laws in subject order.
California Constitution is the start of all laws.
California Ballot Propositions by the Los Angeles County Law Library. All of the California ballot propositions dating back to 1884 are given, including text in the proposition, but it also the arguments. Hastings College has one also.
California Ballot Pamphlets Online by the California Secretary of State, who is officially in charge of the propositions.
50-State Legislative Tracking Web Resources by National Conference of State Legislatures provides links to topic, alphabetical legislative and statutory databases, compilations, and state charts/maps.
State Law Sources by Cornell Law School. The LII collection of state legal materials gathers, state by state, Internet-accessible sources of the statutes or legislation for the fifty states, plus D.C., and the U.S. territories and affiliated jurisdictions. Arranged by topic or by state.
USA State Government Resources by the Law & Policy Institute Guide. Arranged by state, links to each state's government site, include constitution, legislative bodies, courts and state agencies.
How to Read and Find Bills and Laws:
How to Read a Statute by Business Legal Forms. Lays out the what to look for and make sure the law is current. There are definitions to common legal terms.
How to Find Statutes by Business Legal Forms. This is provides a couple of strategies to find laws.
Statutes and Cases by Nolo Press has a guide to finding, reading and defining legal materials.
