Federal & Washington State Resources for Legislation/Regulation
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESOURCES | WASHINGTON STATE RESOURCES |
| BILLS | BILLS |
| Bills through GPO Access http://www.gpoaccess.gov/bills/index.html (1993- ) | Bills from the Legislature, searchable, from the current and last 2 biennia http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/ |
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Bills through Thomas http://thomas.loc.gov/bss/d108query.html (1989- ) |
Bills from the Legislature, searchable, from the Legislature's Advanced Search > Previous Bienniums: searchable, from 1985 http://search.leg.wa.gov/advanced/3.0/main.asp |
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Bills through Lexis-Nexis Congressional (UW only) http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/ (1989- ) |
Bill summaries from the Legislature, searchable, from 1991 https://dlr.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/ |
| Washington Bills through access.wa.gov http://search.leg.wa.gov/ (2003- ) | |
| LAWS AS PASSED THROUGH CONGRESS | LAWS AS PASSED THROUGH LEGISLATURE |
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Laws through GPO Access http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plaws/index.html (1995- ) |
Laws of Washington (also
referred to as Session Laws or chapters) http://www1.leg.wa.gov/CodeReviser/Session+Laws/
(1997/98 session- ). Choose "Chapter to Bill" table. |
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Laws through Thomas http://thomas.loc.gov/bss/d110/d110laws.html (1989- ) |
Laws of Washington through
LexisNexis Academic (UW only) http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
under Legal tab, then Federal & State Codes (from bar on right). Choose
Washington State from the drop-down menu (this includes the Washington Advanced
Legislative Service or ALS). |
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Public Laws through Lexis-Nexis Congressional (UW only) -- under "Legislative Histories, Bills & Laws" link, then "Public Laws" http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/ (1989- ) |
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| Statutes at Large through Hein Online (UW only) http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome?collection=journals | |
| LAWS CODIFIED = U.S. CODE | LAWS (CODIFIED) = RCW |
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U.S. Code through GPO Access http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/index.html (Select United States Code {2000} for most recent edition.) |
RCW (searchable) through the Office of the Code Reviser http://search.leg.wa.gov/ |
| U.S. Code through the Office of the Law Revision Counsel http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm | RCW (browsable) through the state legislature's site http://search.leg.wa.gov/basic/textsearch/default.asp |
| U.S. Code Service (commercially
enhanced service) through Lexis-Nexis Congressional (UW only) http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/ |
RCW through LexisNexis
(UW only) http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
under Legal Research, then Codes & Regulations, then State Codes (select
Washington), then Washington Code. |
| PROPOSED REGULATIONS = FEDERAL REGISTER | PROPOSED REGULATIONS = WASHINGTON STATE REGISTER |
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Federal Register through GPO Access http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html (1994- ) |
State Register through state legislative site http://search.leg.wa.gov/ (1998- ) |
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Federal
Register through Lexis-Nexis Congressional (UW only) -- under "Regulations"
link http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/
(1980- ) |
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| Federal Register through Hein Online, 1936 -(UW only) http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome?collection=journals | |
| Federal Register listings for currently proposed regulations only http://www.regulations.gov | |
| FINAL REGULATIONS (CODIFIED) = CFR | FINAL REGULATIONS (CODIFIED) = WAC |
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CFR through GPO Access (searchable) http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html (current edition as well as previous editions back to 1996) |
WAC through state legislative site http://search.leg.wa.gov/ |
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CFR through GPO Access (browsable) http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html#page1 (1996- ) |
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| CFR through Lexis-Nexis Congressional (UW only) -- under "Regulations" link http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/ (1981- ) | |
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CFR through Hein Online, 1936 -(UW only) http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome?collection=journals |
See also: Washington State Legislative History site from the Gallagher Law Library http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/washleghis.html |
E-mail: cass@u.washington.edu
Last modified: Thursday April 03, 2008