Laws and Regulations
For more detailed information
on sources for finding laws and regulations, also see our guide
on The Legislative Research Process at /library/guides/legis.asp
Federal
- Public Laws contain the text of a law as first passed. They are arranged in chronological order. Free sources of current public laws include GPO Access or the THOMAS legislative service.
- The U.S. Code is a subject arrangement of all laws currently in effect. Free sources of the current version are at GPO Access or the House of Representatives.
- Proposed and newly finalized regulations are in the Federal Register available for free at GPO Access.
- The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is a subject arrangement of regulations currently in effect, also available for free at GPO Access.
- Regulations.gov allows the public to comment on new pending federal regulations
- Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations/unified_agenda/index.asp Access to information about federal regulatory activities
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set Finding List http://www3.wooster.edu/Library/gov/serialset/main.htm
- U.S. House of Representatives at http://www.house.gov/
- United States Senate at http://www.senate.gov/
- Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet at http://thomas.loc.gov/
- GPO Access at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
- CQ Library from online databases Find full-text articles about Congress from CQ Weekly Report and CQ Researcher.
- Legislative Source Book from the Law Librarian's Society of Washington, DC. Inc. http://www.llsdc.org/sourcebook/
Wisconsin & Other States
- Internet Access to Rules at ? has links to the administrative registers (proposed and new regulations) and the administrative codes (subject arrangement of all regulations in effect) from various states.
- State statutes & legislation at
- Legislative Reference Bureau (Wisconsin) http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/pubs/index.htm Full-text of many of their recent publications, which are the substitute for legislative hearings on the state level.
- Wisconsin Codes & Ordinances (cities, villages, towns) http://wsll.state.wi.us/ordinances.html
- Wisconsin State Law Library--Wisconsin Law and Government http://wsll.state.wi.us/wisco.html
- Wisconsin State Legislature http://www.legis.state.wi.us/ full-text of the state statutes, constitution, acts, bills, the Blue Book, the Blue Book, election statistics, etc.
- Wisconsin Administrative Code & Register (regulations) http://www.legis.state.wi.us/rsb/code.htm
Assistance with using our Government Publications collections is available through the Third Floor Reference Desk. You can contact the staff by phone at 920-465-2303 or via e-mail at refdesk@uwgb.edu