State Bills in the United States

State Bills and Bill Tracking Legal Materials

Generally, current bills and bill status are posted on each state legislature’s home page. (The National Conference of State Legislatures posts links to all State Legislatures pages at http://ncsl.org/pulic/sitesleg.htm). Otherwise, you can get bills from Lexis and Westlaw. For older bills, call the document delivery service of a state, bar or law school library in the relevant state.

You can do a simple search for bills from all states for free using Scout. For more sophisticated searching, use Lexis, Westlaw or another commercial service.

For more specific information, see the entries for individual states.

Bill Tracking

You can generally track the progress of a state bill by checking the free postings on the state legislature’s Web site. For more complex or ongoing bill tracking projects, you might want to try contacting the following companies:

1. Scout, which is basic but free (unlike the other options below)
2. LexisNexis State Net
3. StateSide Associates
4. StateScape
5. Capitol Watch on Westlaw or Capitol Watch direct sign-on
6. Multistate Associates Incorporated, 703-684-1110
7. CQ State Track by CQ Roll Call
8. LegiCrawler
9. Capitol Impact

You can track New York bills with Bloomberg Law.

For more specific information, see the entries for individual states.

Note: We linked the resources to archive.org in an effort to decrease the number of broken links cited.

State Primary Law Resources

For more U.S. State primary law resources, see:

• U.S. State Law: Constitutional
• U.S. State Cases
• U.S. State Law: Codes
• U.S. State Law: Statutes
• U.S. State Law: Executive & Administrative
• U.S. State Law: Municipal

Resources

See Also

• U.S. State Law Sources