Research Guides: White Collar Crime Seminar: Legislative History

Federal Legislative History

Resources mentioned in this instructional video:

Georgetown Law Library's Legislative History Research Guide
This guide collects major sources for conducting federal legislative history research, including committee reports, hearings, bills, debates and more.

ProQuest Legislative Insight This link opens in a new window
Publications created by the United States Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws.
Quick Start Guide: http://proxy.library.vanderbilt.edu/login?url=http://proquest.libguides.com/quick_start_legislative_insight

State Legislative History

The key to successfully locating a state's legislative history documents is to understand the state's legislative process and to identify the documents generated during that process. This information can vary significantly from state to state, but can be found in state-specific legislative history research guides. Here is a list of helpful state research guides, to get you started:

Georgetown Law Library U.S. States Research Guides
This A-Z list of research guides for every U.S. state includes information on where to find the major sources of law in each state, including state legislative history materials.
State Legislative History Research Guides Inventory
This research guide provides an index of state legislatures and links to online legislative history research guides for every single U.S. state.

Example State Legislative History Research Process for Tennessee
This Google Doc walks you through, step by step, the process of identifying a relevant state law as well as how to work through the legislative history research process.
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Anyone can access the Google Doc (with or without a Google account) and you can make a copy of the document or download it for your own use.