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   2. Catalog of US Govt. Publications
   3. Government Documents Catalog
   4. GPO Access
   5. Lexis/Nexis Academic
   6. Lexis/Nexis Congressional
   7. Stat USA
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   5. CyberCemetery
   6. WI Portal
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Laws and Regulations

For more detailed information on  sources for finding laws and regulations, also see our guide on The Legislative Research Process at http://www.uwgb.edu/library/guides/legis.html

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://orange.cs.umass.edu/ua/  Access to information about federal regulatory activities
• U.S. Congressional Serial Set Finding List http://www.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 http://www.nass.org/acr/internet.html 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 http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm
• 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