Pritzker Legal Research Center: Law Journals' Guide to Source & Cite: Legislative Materials

Federal Legislative Materials

U.S. Statutes

What the cite looks like	Publication	PDF Source	Coverage
42 U.S.C. 1983	United States Code	GovInfo	103rd Congress (1994) to date
		HeinOnline	1789-2018
		Office of the Law Revision Counsel	Preliminary (advance) version

U.S. Public Laws

What the cite looks like	Publication	PDF Source	Coverage
Pub. L. No. 102-2 P.L. 102-408 106 Stat. 1992	Statutes at Large U.S. Public and Private Laws	GovInfo	104th Congress (1995) to date
		HeinOnline	1789-2002
		Westlaw	1789-1972

Proposed Laws and Congressional Materials

What the cite looks like	Publication	PDF Source	Coverage
S. 516 H.R. 422	Congressional Bills	GovInfo ProQuest Congressional	103d Congress (1993) to date 100th Congress (1987) to date
	Congressional Committee Prints	GovInfo ProQuest Congressional	105th Congress (1997) to date 15th Congress (1817) to date
	Congressional Hearings	GovInfo ProQuest Congressional	105th Congress (1997) to date 18th Congress (1824) to date
H.R. Rep. No. 98-2 S. Rep. No. 104-201	Congressional Reports	GovInfo ProQuest Congressional	99th Congress (1985) to date 1817-present
145 Cong. Rec. H1817	Bound Congressional Record	GovInfo HeinOnline	Vol. 145 (1998) to date Vol. 1 (1873) to date
145 Cong. Rec. H1817	Early congressional debates	Library of Congress American Memory project HeinOnline	1789-1877 1789-1873

State Legislative Materials

Northwestern maintains the current version of the following state codes in print on the 3rd floor of the library in the State Materials collection:

California
Delaware
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
New York
South Carolina
Texas
Wisconsin

For all other states where the current code is not available in print, you may cite to a commercial electronic database per Bluebook Rule 12.2.

Historical state statutes are available via HeinOnline and on microfiche. For assistance with historical state codes that are not available on HeinOnline, please ask a reference librarian.

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State Statutes: A Historical Archive includes superseded state statutes for all fifty states. Search the statutes by state, date, description and text. Coverage goes back until 1717.
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Session Law Library - This library contains the session laws of all 50 U.S. states as well as Canada, Australia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the D.C. Register. All states are current within 60 days of the printed publication, and all states are available back to inception.