Constitutions, Statutes, Legislation and Codes
State and Federal Codes
Federal Statutes, Federal Legislative History & Pending Bills
Ohio Statutes, Ohio Legislative History & Pending Bills
State Statutes & Legislative History
Constitutions
State and Federal Codes
LexisNexis Academic -Annotated copies of the U.S. Code and annotated codes for all fifty states. Alternatively, access the codes via the Sources tab. Available in the law library to the public. Available remotely with a CSU ID and Scholar PIN.
Casemaker : Contains the unannotated U.S. Code - check currency information, may have to update with public laws. Unannotated statutes for all fifty states. Available at the public access terminals in the law library, or remotely with a Casemaker username and password.
Federal Statutes, Legislation and Codes
Codes
- Cornell's Legal Information Institute (LII) US Code -most up-to-date free source on the web
- United States Code -- unannotated from the US Government Printing Office (official code)
- U.S. House of Representative U.S. Code web page (official code)
- Findlaw
- The Public Library of Law by Fastcase - official versions back to 1988
Federal Legislative History, Pending Bills
For more information see Legislative History Research Guide
- University of Michigan's Legislative History Process Chart
- Thomas - United States Public Laws ( 1973-); Bills ( 1989-); Congressional Record (1989-); Committee Reports (1995-) . See "All Congressional Actions" for references to the Congressional Record, committee reports, related bills.
- GPO Access - Legislative - Contains similar items as Thomas, but not as far back. Links to two items not in Thomas: Committee Hearings (1995-) and Committee Prints (1997-) . GPO Access will be replaced by FDsys in mid-2009. Some databases have already been transferred to FDsys, but remain current in GPO Access. These include (as of 2-11-09): bills, Congressional Documents, Congressional Hearings, Congressional Record, Congressional Reports, Public and Private laws.
- U.S. Senate WWW Home Page -Active Legislation Subject List
- LexisNexis Congressional - Via Cleveland Public Library with library card.
- The CIS Index and Abstracts set (1970 - 2002) and the CIS Legislative History volumes (1984-2002) are available in print format at our Law Library, Base Level. Use them to identify full text of Congressional hearings, reports, documents, committee prints, bills, and the Congressional Record; and Public laws. See Congressional Information Service Legislative Resources.
Ohio Statutes, Legislation and Codes
- Ohio Revised Code (Unannotated; LAWriter from Ohio State Govt. site)
- Ohio Constitution
You may also want to try the following custom search engines: Ohio Primary Materials; Everything Ohio Law
Legislative History, Pending Bills and News
See: Legislative History Research Guide: Ohio and Other States AND Ohio Legal Research Guide – Legislative History
- Ohio General Assembly - Find bills and acts back to 1997, some legislative history documents.
- Ohio Capitol Connection - Available in the library and remotely to CSU LAW students/faculty
Statutes for All States
- LLI: State Statutes by Topic
- American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO)
- The Public Library of Law
- State Legislative History Research Guides on the Web
- Session Laws for All States via Heinonline (coverage and currency varies by state)
- 50 State Legislative Tracking Web Resources via National Conference of State Legislatures
- Bill Tracking web links (via AALL)
Constitutions
- LexisNexis Academic - Access to Federal and State Constitutions, with Annotations. Available in the law library to the public. Available remotely with a CSU ID and Scholar PIN.
- American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO) - links for Federal and current state constitutions
- Unannotated Text and Amendments -U.S. House of Representatives
- The Constitution of the United States of America (Analysis and Interpretation with Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States 2002 with 2004 supplement)
- The NBER Maryland State Constitutions Project - historical state constitutions
- Ohio Constitutional Law and History
- Current Constitution of the State of Ohio
- Casemaker : Federal and some state constitutions. Not annotated. Available at the public access terminals in the law library, or remotely with a Casemaker username and password.
links checked 8/7/2009 aeb