State and Local Legislative Sources

Alabama

• Alabama State Legislature
  Basic information about the Alabama House of Representatives and Senate. No access to the text of bills, yet.

Alaska

• Alaska State Legislature
  Great source for current Alaska statutes and bills, as well as historical legislative documents going back to 1983.

Arizona

• Arizona Legislative Information System
  Full text of bills (beginning with 1995), schedules, news releases, and the Arizona Revised Statutes.

Arkansas

• Arkansas General Assembly
  Download bills, resolutions and session acts, as well as obtain general information about the General Assembly.

California

• Official California Legislative Information
  There's a lot of material here. Search and download bills (from 1993 on); Legislative Publications (such as the Table of Sections Affected, the Legislative Index, and general information on the California Legislature); and all titles of the California Code.

Colorado

• Colorado General Assembly
  General information about the Assembly, including the status and text of bills (search first either the Bill Index or the Status Sheet; from there there will be a link to the full text of the bill). Also, search the Colorado Statutes and Court Rules using the Colorado Statute Manager.

Connecticut

• Connecticut Legislative Branch
  Search and download the full text of bills, acts, legislative hearings and the transcripts of floor debate.

Delaware

• Delaware General Assembly
  Information on Delaware's Senate and House of Representatives as well as access to bill tracking and the full text of bills.

Florida

• Online Sunshine - The Florida Legislature
  A great launching pad to all things legislative in the state of Florida. Obtain the most recent pamphlet laws (i.e., chapter or session laws); search and download House of Representatives and Senate bills (1995 onward); locate and print-off Governor's Veto Messages; and peruse and download the Florida Statutes and Constitution.

Georgia

• Georgia Legislative Services
  Search and download the full text of bills for the state of Georgia (it defaults to the current session -- scroll down to the bottom of the page to search for older legislation (1995 -)).

Hawaii

• Hawaii State Legislature
  Unfortunately, the information here is scattered and incomplete. You can obtain a list of House and Senate members and committees. An online version of the Hawaii Constitution is available for your perusal. To search on legislative information, go to Hawaii FYI. Please note: you must have a telnet client to use this service. All this service will provide is "the legislative timetable, information, directories and drafts of Senate and House bills."

Idaho

• Idaho Legislature
  A simple, easy to use page that will quickly connect you to the full text of bills (1996-), Governor's vetos, the Idaho statutes and other legislative information.

Indiana

• Indiana General Assembly
  There's a lot of detailed information available at this site. The last couple of years of legislation is available, as well as information about Indiana legislators and their schedules. The Indiana Code is available to search and to download. (Note: The sections of the code that can be downloaded are in a Zip file format. You will need Pkunzip or a similar utility program to ultimately view the data.)

Iowa

• Iowa General Assembly
  Get copies of bills from 1996 forward. Also available is the Code of Iowa, and other useful links.

Kansas

• Kansas Legislative Services
  A smorgasbord of Kansas legislative and statutory Internet links. The full text of pending bills, bill tracking, the Kansas Statutes Annotated, campaign finance data and many other types of information is available for the downloading.

Kentucky

• Kentucky Legislative Home Page
  This is the place to go for all things legislative in the state of Kentucky. The full text of legislative bills, committee schedules, the Kentucky Revised Statutes, legislative rules of procedure, etc., are available at the click of a mouse button.

New Jersey

• New Jersey State Legislature
  Obtain copies of bills, chapter laws, legislative calendars; search the NJ Statutes and the NJ Constitution. Please note: "in order to view the text of bills, the Legislative Calendar and the Legislative Digest, you must download the ENVOY viewer software.

New York

• New York City Council
  This is the official page for the NYC Council. Get news on the Council, schedule of upcoming hearings and meetings, and the full text of NYC Local Laws and bills (beginning with 1995).
• New York State Assembly
  Use this for NY State Bills (Assembly and Senate), Legislative Reports, member directories and news releases. Also available are online versions of the NY State Constitution, the NY State Consolidated Laws and the NY State Unconsolidated Laws.
• New York State Senate
  Search for NY State Bills, legislative summaries, press releases, etc.

Vermont

• Vermont Legislative Home Page
  Search and download the full text of bills (1993-), the schedules and minutes of committee meetings and selected "summer studies". An online version of the Vermont Statutes is available, as well.

Wisconsin

• Wisconsin Legislature
  Coverage begins with 1995. "The histories of bills, joint resolutions and resolutions are in HTML format. Each history contains a link to the associated text. The 1997-98 bills and acts on this site are available in pdf format ..."