Guide to State Legislatures
The Guide to State Legislative Histories on the Web from Indiana University Law Library Bloomington is a good general guide to state legislative research
The following is a list of links to state legislature and legislative history websites.
Alabama - Provides legislative information for current session of legislature, House and Senate live audio, links to the Alabama Code, Constitution, and other government branches. The Legislative history site contains House and Senate Journals from 1818-1826 and the history of Alabama's constitutions and territorial government.
Alaska - Contains legislative directory, calendars of legislative activity, and committee information. Publications include past session daily journals and summaries and the Alaska Code, Administrative Code, and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates, and live session audio/video broadcasts. Legislative history provides summaries of archived documents.
Arizona - Contains legislative directory, floor calendars, and committee listings and agendas. Publications include prior and current legislative records, fiscal reports, Senate and House journals and digests, and the Arizona Statutes and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates and state executive agencies.
Arkansas - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include prior and current legislative records, Senate and House journals, budget and fiscal data, and the Arkansas Code. Links available for bill status updates, state agencies, and the executive and judicial branches.
California - The Legislative Counsel of California maintains the official California Legislative Information website, which contains legislative directories and organizations, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include agency reports and the California Code and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates, Assembly and Senate daily journals and websites, and other state offices.
Colorado - Contains legislative directory and calendars, with links to other Colorado State departments and agencies. Provides current and past legislative session summaries, the Colorado Statutes and Constitution, and daily House and Senate journals. Additional links to bill digests and live audio broadcasts of current session.
Connecticut - Contains current and past bill information and publication of House and Senate journals/transcripts, with links to Connecticut State Statutes. Also provides links to legislative directory and calendars, and live audio/video proceedings.
Delaware - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include committee reports, and the Delaware Code and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates, audio broadcasts of debates, and the executive and judicial branches.
Florida - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include prior and current legislative records, Senate and House journals, fiscal reports, and the Florida Code and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates, live session broadcasts, state agencies, and a Registered Lobbyist Directory.
Georgia - Provides audio/video broadcasts of current and past legislative sessions, Georgia Statutes, state budget reports, lobbyist information, and links to state departments and agencies.
Hawaii - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include prior and current legislative records and the Hawaii Code and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates, Special Studies Reports, and live session broadcasts
Idaho - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee lists and hearings. Publications include prior and current legislative records, fiscal reports and analyses, legislative audits, Senate and House journals, Strategic Plans, and the Idaho Code and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates and other state offices.
Illinois - Contains legislative directory for the Illinois General Assembly, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include prior and current legislative records, Senate and House journals, and the Illinois Code and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates, audio/video session transcripts, and the Illinois Register.
Indiana - The website of the Indian General Assembly contains a legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include prior and current legislative records, Senate and House journals, fiscal reports, agency reports to the legislature, and searchable Indiana Code, Administrative Code, and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates and other state offices.
Iowa - Contains legislative calendars, directory, and committee listings and schedules. Provides links to lobbyist information, budget analyses and fiscal services, and live audio proceedings. Publications include the Iowa Code, Administrative Code, and Court Rules, and Daily . Legislation and Analysis. Links to bill tracking tools and an archive of past legislative documents.
Kansas - Contains legislative calendars, directory, and committee listings and schedules. Publications include legislative post audits, budget reports, administrative services, and Kansas Statutes. Links to live audio broadcasts of proceedings, Ethics Commission, archived legislative information, and bill status updates.
Kentucky - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include prior and current legislative records, research reports, memoranda and bulletin updates. Links to live video broadcasts of current proceedings, and to past sessions (1997-).
Louisiana - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include prior (1997-) and current legislative records, fiscal information, audits, committee reports, and the Louisiana Code and Constitution. Provides links to bill status updates, live broadcasts of proceedings, and to other State departments.
Maine - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include current legislative records and digests of legislative actions (1997-), as well as Senate and House journals, fiscal reports, budget proposals, and the Maine Code and Constitution. Provides links to bill status updates, other state offices, and to live audio/video broadcasts of proceedings.
Maryland - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include prior and current legislative records, Senate and House journals, fiscal reports, audits, committee reports, and the Maryland Code and Constitution. Links to bill status updates and audio recordings of current and prior legislative sessions.
Massachusetts - The Massachusetts General Court website contains a legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include prior and current legislative records, dockets, Senate and House journals, fiscal and audit reports, annual session laws, and the Massachusetts Code and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates and video coverage (2004-). A Legislative tracking page contains a searchable database for bill histories.
Michigan - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings and journals. Publications include prior and current legislative records, Senate and House journals, resolutions, and the Michigan Code and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates and current and historical legislative research databases.
Minnesota - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include Senate and House journals, and the Minnesota Code and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates and other state departments. Legislative history contains a database for legislative publications (1994-).
Mississippi - Contains legislative directories, calendars, schedules, and House and Senate committee listings and rules. Publications include the Mississippi Code and Constitutional provisions. Links available for bill status updates and live webcasts, previous sessions (1997-), and to other government branches .
Missouri - The Missouri General Assembly website contains the legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include Senate and House journals and the Missouri Code and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates and live debates, and to a bill tracking device (1995-).
Montana - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include legislative audit and fiscal reports, Senate and House journals, past session (1999-) information, and the Montana Code and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates. Legislative history site contains a bill tracking device.
Nebraska - Contains legislative directory for Nebraska's unicameral legislature, calendar, and committee listings. Publications include prior and current legislative reports, fiscal reports, legislative journal, and the Nebraska Code and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates and video broadcast of proceedings. Legislative history site contains contact information for retrieval of historical legislative documents.
Nevada - Contains legislative directory, calendar, and committee listings. Publications include legislative reports, Senate and House journals, fiscal reports, and the Nevada Rev. Statutes and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates, historical legislative documents (1993-), lobbyist information, the Nevada Register, and other state offices.
New Hampshire - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings of the New Hampshire General Court. Publica from the Office of Legislative Budget Assistant, and New Hampshire Code and Constitution. Links available for bill status searches (1989-), voting record archive, and streaming audio broadcasts of proceedings.
New Jersey - Contains legislative directory, calendars, legislative digest, and committee listings (including aides). Publications include public hearing announcements, audit and fiscal reports, Senate and House journals, and New Jersey Statutes and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates and email notification subscriptions, live and archived broadcasts of proceedings, and other state departments. The State Library's Legislative history site contains an online database of historical legislative documents (1998-).
New Mexico - Contains legislative directory, session calendars, and committee memberships and calendars. Publications include prior and current legislative reports (2002-), the New Mexico Statutes, Court Rules, and Constitutional amendments. Links available for bill status and an update service.
New York Assembly and New York Senate - New York has separate websites for its Assembly and Senate, each with similar information (see also New York State Resources on the Legislature, Assembly and Senate). These include legislative directories, session calendars, committee listings, the Task Force on Reapportionment, World Trade Center Information, and live broadcasts of proceedings. Publications include public hearing calendars, legislative reports, and New York Laws and Constitution. The New York State Legislative Session Information page has a searchable database of bill information and status (2007-).
North Carolina - Contains member directories for the North Carolina General Assembly, calendars, and committee information.. Publications include prior and current bill reports, audit reports and tax summaries (1987-), and North Carolina General Statutes and session laws. Links available for bill inquiries, audio broadcasts of proceedings, lobbyist registration, and other state and federal departments.
North Dakota - The North Dakota Legislative Branch page contains House and Senate directories, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include bills and resolutions, Senate and House journals, and the North Dakota Century Code and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates and audio/video recordings of daily sessions.
Ohio - Contains House and Senate directories, schedules, and committee listings. Publications include bill analysis and status reports, House and Senate journals, the Ohio Rev. Code, Administrative Code, and Constitution. Links to session videos and the Ohio Executive and Judicial branches.
Oklahoma - Contains legislative directories, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include legislative and agency rules, the Oklahoma Statutes and the Constitution. Links available for bill history (1993-) and status updates .
Oregon - Contains legislative directory and committee membership and schedules. A "bills and laws" link provides a bill tracking device as well as a database for historical legislative publications. A "budget/tax" link contains legislative fiscal and revenue information. The site also publishes the Oregon Statutes and Constitution. Live audio and streaming video of proceedings is provided.
Pennsylvania - Contains legislative and committee directories for the Pennsylvania General Assembly. The "session information" page contains House and Senate calendars, journals, and committee schedules. Bill information can be researched in several different ways back to the 1969 regular session. Publications include the Pennsylvania Statutes, Rules and Regulations. Links available for Budget/Finance Committee, lobbyist listings, and live session broadcast s.
Rhode Island - Contains House and Senate directories and session schedules, and committee listings, agendas, calendars and reports. Publications include prior (1994-) and current legislative records, Senate and House journals, fiscal reports, and the Rhode Island General Laws, Local Acts and Resolves, and the Constitution. Links available for bill status updates and schedule of televised proceedings.
South Carolina - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings. Publications include searchable current and archived legislative records, Senate and House journals, and searchable South Carolina Code of Laws, Code of Regulations, and Constitution. Links available for bill tracking and reports, budget information, and live session broadcasts.
South Dakota - The South Dakota Legislature/Legislative Research Council website contains current and historical legislative directories, calendar, and committee rosters and schedules. Publications include South Dakota Statutes and Administrative Rules Links available for bill status reports, lobbyists, and fiscal information
Tennessee - The Tennessee General Assembly website contains House and Senate directories, calendars, and committee listings and schedules. Publications include prior (1995-) legislative records and the current Tennessee Legislative Record, Senate and House journals, budget summaries, and the Tennessee Code and Constitution. Links available live session video streaming, the Tennessee Government website, and lobbyist information.
Texas - Contains House and Senate directories, calendars, and committee listings and meeting schedules. Publications include searchable legislative records (1989-), House and Senate journals, and the Texas Statutes, Administrative Code, and Constitution. Links available for bill status updates and other state departments.
Utah - Contains current and historical legislative directories, calendar, and committee listings and agendas. Publications include Senate and House journals and floor debates, and the Utah Code and Constitution. Links available for bill searches (1990-) and status updates, and to the other branches and Utah newspapers. A link to legislative history leads to archived documents, including working bills from 1896-.
Vermont - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings, meeting schedules and minutes. Publications include legislative rules and reports, Senate and House journals, reports from the Joint Fiscal Office, and the Vermont Statutes and Constitution. Links available for a legislative information database (1987-), searchable hearings on current bills, reports on issues of interest, and other state offices.
Virginia - Contains legislative directory, calendars, and committee listings and schedules. Publications include daily floor minutes, rules, state financial details, reports to the General Assembly, and the Virginia Code, Administrative Code, and Constitution. The Legislative Information System page links to a bill tracking database and meeting videos, and to the Legislative Reference Center, which provides a legislative history research guide and documents back to 1989.
Washington - Contains legislative directory, calendars and agendas, and committee assignments and meeting schedules.. Publications include prior and current legislative records (some from 1985-) and the Washington Revised Code, Administrative Code, and Constitution. Links to Bill Information and Legislative Information Center pages, with bill tracking and legislative history documents. New features include mobile content (to phones and PDAs) and RSS feeds.
West Virginia - Contains legislative directories, committee listings, and a bulletin board of calendars, meetings and journals. Publications include state agency and legislative audit reports, and the West Virginia Code and Constitution. Links available for bill status and tracking and summaries of daily legislative activities.
Wisconsin - Contains legislative directories, session calendars, and committee listings and schedules. Publications include Assembly and Senate Journals, the Wisconsin Blue Book, the Wisconsin Statutes, Administrative Code and Register, and the Constitution. The Legislation link connects to current and previous legislative and budget documents, bill tracking and status updates, audio session broadcasts, and other state offices. The Wisconsin Law Archive contains historical legislative documents.
Wyoming - Contains legislative directory, committee listings, session schedules, calendars and meetings. Publications include lists of interim committee studies, legislative and budget session records, school finance information, and the Wyoming Statutes and Constitution. Links available for current-session bill information and other state websites.
updated 3/25/2008
