Laws and Regulations
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- Don't know where to start? Try:
- Guide to Federal Legislation
- Guide to Federal Regulatory Information
Agencies
Laws
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- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
- U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875, from the Law Library of Congress. Includes bills and statutes.
- GPO Access Legislative Branch Resources
- Access to various legislative publications from 1994 to present.
- Guide to Federal Legislative Information
- HeinOnline U.S. Attorney General Opinions UM Only
- Full text of: "Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice, (1977-1996)," "Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States, (1791-1982)," "Digest of the Published Opinions of the Attorneys-General & of the Leading Decisions of the Federal Courts, with Reference to International Law, Treaties, and Kindred Subjects,(1877)," and "Attorney General's National Committee to Study the Antitrust laws" (1955).
- HeinOnline: U.S. Code Library UM Only
- Full text of the U.S. Code from 1925 to the present. Consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. Includes a U.S. Code Citation Search Tool which allows you to enter a title number, section number, and select an edition.
- HeinOnline U.S. Federal Legislative Histories Library UM Only
- Full-text legislative histories on important and historically significant legislation plus some information for varied legislation.
- HeinOnline U.S. Statutes at Large Library UM Only
- Full text of U.S. Statutes at Large from 1789 to 2002. Contains laws and resolutions passed by Congress.
- Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws on the Internet
- From the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.
- LexisNexis Congressional UM Only
- Bills, laws, legislative histories, Congressional publications, the Federal Register (1980-present) and the Code of Federal Regulations (1981-present).
- THOMAS
- Legislative information from the Library of Congress, including bills and laws.
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set Finding List
- Finding aid to the U.S. Congressional Serial Set from the College of Wooster Libraries.
- Westlaw Campus Research UM Only
- Full-text access to cases from the courts of all 50 states and federal courts, statutes from all 50 states and federal statutes.
- Note: See our Guide to Federal Legislative Information for a more comprehensive overview.
Regulations
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- Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
- A codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the United States Government.
- Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR)
- A version of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) updated daily of the Office of the Federal Register. The e-CFR is notan official legal edition of the CFR.
- Federal Register
- The official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.
- GPO Access Regulatory Databases
- Provides searching capabilities for the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register (1994-present) and the Unified Agenda (1994-present)
- Guide to Federal Regulatory Information
- HeinOnline Federal Register Library UM Only
- Full-text access to the Federal Register, Federal Register Indexes (1939-1995), Compilation of Sections Affected (1949-2000), Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1965-2004), and the Administrative Procedure Act (1944-1946).
- List of CFR Sections Affected
- Lists proposed, new, and amended Federal regulations that have been published in the Federal Register since the most recent revision date of a CFR title.
- RegInfo.gov
- Links to Federal Regulatory information. Includes "RegMap," which outlines the regulatory process.
- Regulations.gov
- Provides access to all Federal regulations that are open for public comment and closed for comment as published in the Federal Register as well as many Federal agency notices published in the Federal Register and additional supporting materials, public comments, and Federal agency guidance and adjudications
- Unified Agenda
- Summarizes the rules and proposed rules that each Federal agency expects to issue during the next year. (Also known as the Semiannual Regulatory Agenda)
- Note: See our Guide to Federal Regulatory Information for a more comprehensive overview.
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