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State Constitutions
Preambles to State Constitutions
Full-text state statutes and legislation on the Internet This page seeks to link to sites containing full-text state constitutions, statutes (called codes or compiled laws in some states), legislation (bills, amendments and similar documents), session laws (bills that have become laws), and administrative rules. Links to sites maintained by governments are in bold type.
Alabama
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws
- Administrative Code, Administrative Monthly Alaska
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws, Administrative Code, Administrative Journal
- Statutes, Administrative Code
- Constitution American Samoa
- Constitution, statutes, Administrative Code
- Constitution Arizona
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws
- Administrative Code, Administrative Register Arkansas
- Legislation, session laws
- Constitution, statutes Also legislation and session laws from previous sessions.
- Some administrative rules are online at a central site, but the information at the site is fragmentary. Some agencies have put their administrative rules online on their own sites. To see whether an agency's rules are available at the agency's site, choose the agency from the agency list and go to the agency's site.
- Arkansas Register California (For California only, session laws are called "statutes" and statutes are called "codes" to conform to California terminology)
- Codes
- Codes
- Legislation Legislative Counsel site.
- Legislation State Senate site; bills from both houses are available.
- Statutes
- Constitution
- Constitution, codes, legislation, statutes FTP
- Code of Regulations
- Regulatory Notice Register Colorado
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws, rules and regulations Choose the "Colorado Revised Statutes" link for both constitution and statutes. Connecticut
- Statutes, legislation, session laws
- Statutes, session laws Statutes may not be as current as the statutes available by following the link immediately above this one.
- Constitution
- Some administrative rules are online. To see whether an agency's rules are online, choose the agency from the agency list and go to the agency's site. Delaware
- Constitution, statutes Java required. The Constitution text is part of the "Delaware Code" database.
- Legislation, Register of Regulations For the Register of Regulations, use the link labeled "Online Publications". A few Administrative Code provisions are also available.
- Administrative Code (partial)
- Constitution District of Columbia
- DC Code (Lexis) Java required.
- DC Code (West)
- Legislation: Council Period 15 ; Council Period 14 ; archives Partial
- Legislation, session laws Florida
- Constitution, statutes, legislation
- Session laws ("General Laws"), Administrative Code, Administrative Weekly Session laws and Administrative Code are Adobe Acrobat files. (For HTML files of session laws, use the "Bill-to-Law cross reference" link on the page to find the bill number, then use the Florida legislation link listed above to get the final version of the bill.) Georgia
- Statutes
- Legislation, session laws
- Constitution
- Constitution Adobe Acrobat file (2.3 mb). There is an Adobe Acrobat file on another site that appears to have the same contents but is only 239 kb.
- Administrative Code Guam
- Statutes The links labeled "Section 1", "Section 2" and so on actually take you to Title 1, Title 2 and so on.
- Legislation, session laws Hawaii
- Statutes, legislation, session laws
- Constitution
- Administrative rules Idaho
- Constitution, statutes, legislation
- Constitution
- Administrative rules, Administrative Bulletin Illinois
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws, Administrative Code, Illinois Register
- For pre-2003 legislation, don't choose "Bills & Resolutions"--choose "Previous General Assemblies" instead.
- The main page for each Administrative Code Title lists only Parts, not Chapters and Subchapters. To see where a Chapter or Subchapter begins, find the Table of Contents for the Title you seek. Other indices are available. You can also check the agency list to find an agency's website--the agency's rules may be available there.
- Constitution Annotated; published in 1996; Adobe Acrobat file.
- Legislation, Administrative Code FTP Indiana
- Constitution
- Constitution
- Statutes, legislation, session laws, Administrative Code, Indiana Register The Administrative Code is in WordPerfect (.wpd) file format. If you use Windows and you don't have a program associated with the .wpd file extension, you can save the file (right-click), then launch Microsoft Word or StarOffice, then open the file (Microsoft Word or StarOffice will convert it). Iowa
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws, Administrative Code, Administrative Bulletin Kansas
- Statutes, legislation, enrolled bills They charge a fee to see session laws, but the corresponding enrolled bills are free.
- Constitution Kentucky
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, administrative regulations Louisiana
- Constitution, statutes, legislation
- Session laws
- Administrative Code, Louisiana Register Maine
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws
- Constitution
- Administrative Code Maryland
- Constitution, statutes Java required. The Constitution text is part of the "Maryland Code" database.
- Legislation
- Statutes
- 2000 session laws ; 2001 session laws ; 2002 session laws ; 2003 session laws ; Rich text format (.rtf) files.
- Constitution
- Code of Maryland Regulations, Maryland Register Massachusetts
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws The House bill retrieval page has instructions for manually creating a URL to link to a bill. Ignore those instructions; they were written incorrectly. Use the bill number search or text search instead.
- Code of Massachusetts Regulations Partial Michigan
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws Choose the "Chapter Index" link to browse constitution and statutes.
- Administrative Code, Michigan Register Minnesota
- Constitution, statutes, session laws
- Legislation
- Administrative rules
- State Register Mississippi
- Constitution, statutes Java required. The Constitution text is part of the "Mississippi Code" database.
- Constitution, statutes Search
- Statutes Choose the link labeled "Table of Contents FREE"; browse; most of the other materials on the site are available only by paid subscription.
- Legislation You can go directly to bill text .
- Constitution Browse Missouri
- Constitution, statutes, legislation Use the links to the Senate site and House site for legislation from prior legislative sessions.
- Code of State Regulations, Missouri Register Adobe Acrobat files. Montana
- Constitution, statutes, legislation
- Administrative Register There is also a text-only version of the site . Nebraska
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws
- Statutes Good for browsing the Chapters.
- Administrative Code Nevada
- Statutes, legislation, session laws, Administrative Code, Nevada Register Statutes are called "Nevada Revised Statutes"; session laws are called "Statutes of Nevada".
- Constitution
- Constitution Annotated. A 1.8 mb file. New Hampshire
- Legislation, session laws Choose the "Legislation" link for both legislation and session laws.
- Constitution, statutes, administrative rules, Rulemaking Register Choose the "Administrative Rules" link for the Rulemaking Register. New Jersey
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws New Mexico
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, Administrative Code For the Constitution and Administrative Code, follow the link labeled "New Mexico Statutes".
- Session law to bill concordance
- Administrative Code
- New Mexico Register New York
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws Senate site; information from both houses is available. Constitution has links to each Section.
- Constitution, statutes, session laws Assembly site; information from both houses is available. Constitution has links to each Article.
- Legislation Assembly site; information from both houses is available.
- Statutes
- Constitution Entire constitution in a single document.
- Constitution Adobe Acrobat file.
- Some administrative rules are online. To see whether an agency's rules are online, choose the agency from the agency list and go to the agency's site. North Carolina
- Statutes, legislation, session laws
- Constitution
- Administrative Code If you see a notice on the right side of your screen saying that the Official Administrative Code is available by subscription from West, don't worry about the notice--just navigate using the links on the left side of your screen and you will get the Administrative Code.
- North Carolina Register North Dakota
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws, Administrative Code Adobe Acrobat files. Northern Mariana Islands
- Constitution, session laws Ohio
- Constitution, statutes, session laws, Administrative Code
- Legislation
- Constitution
- Register of Ohio Oklahoma
- Constitution, statutes, legislation (Oklahoma Legislature) Rich text format (.rtf) files. Search constitution and statutes. Browse legislation.
- Constitution, statutes (Oklahoma Public Legal Research System) Search statutes. Search or browse constitution.
- Constitution, statutes (Oklahoma Supreme Court Network) Browse or search. The constitution and statutes are "citationized", meaning they link to decisions citing a section and also to some superseded versions of the section.
- Some administrative rules are online. To see whether an agency's rules are online, choose the agency from the agency list and go to the agency's site. Oregon
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws
- Constitution
- Administrative rules, Oregon Bulletin Pennsylvania
- Statutes, session laws Only portions of the statutes are available. (NOTE: The Pennsylvania Code contains regulations, not statutes. Link appears below.)
- Legislation, session laws Choose "Legislation Enacted" for session laws from 1975 to the present.
- Constitution
- Constitution The site also has research materials.
- Regulations Pennsylvania Code (not statutes).
- Pennsylvania Bulletin Puerto Rico
- Session laws; partial statutes Spanish. The page automatically launches a MIDI file, so mute your speakers if you have a MIDI plug-in installed and you don't want to hear the music.
- Constitution English
- Constitution English Rhode Island
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws Another search engine has various search options.
- Constitution
- Rules and Regulations South Carolina
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws, regulations, State Register You may need to browse the tabs labeled "Research" and "Publications" to find what you need.
- Legislation South Dakota
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws, administrative rules, South Dakota Register Search or browse statutes. Choose the "South Dakota Codified Laws" link for the constitution and statutes. Choose the "Administrative Rules" link for the South Dakota Register.
- Constitution, statutes Java required. The Constitution text is part of the "South Dakota Codified Laws" database. Tennessee
- Constitution, statutes Java required. The Constitution text is part of the "Tennessee Code" database.
- Legislation, session laws ("chaptered bills")
- Constitution Adobe Acrobat file
- Rules and Regulations
- Administrative Register Texas
- Constitution, statutes, legislation Also lists of enrolled, signed, and vetoed bills.
- Constitution, statutes, legislation FTP
- Administrative Code
- Texas Register
- Texas Register Utah
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws
- Constitution, statutes Java required. The Constitution text is part of the "Utah Code" database.
- Administrative rules, State Bulletin Vermont
- Constitution, statutes Java required. The Constitution text is part of the "Vermont Code" database.
- Constitution, legislation, session laws U.S. Virgin Islands
- Statutes
- Legislation Adobe Acrobat files. Use the "Bill Summary" link for a numerical list of bills with links to bill text. (In fact, when I last checked, the "Bill Summary" link was the only link in the navigation frame that worked.) Virginia
- Statutes, legislation, session laws, Administrative Code
- Constitution Adobe Acrobat file.
- Constitution Microsoft Word file.
- Register of Regulations Washington
- Statutes, Administrative Code
- Statutes
- Legislation
- Constitution
- Constitution
- Administrative Code
- State Register West Virginia
- Statutes, session laws, legislation, session laws If you have problems with the navigation scheme on the site's home page, use an alternate home page instead. Bill text is in WordPerfect (.wpd) file format. If you use Windows and you don't have a program associated with the .wpd file extension, you can save the file (right-click), then launch Microsoft Word or StarOffice, then open the file (Microsoft Word or StarOffice will convert it).
- Constitution
- Constitution It can also be accessed through a search form .
- Code of State Rules, West Virginia Register If you see a price next to a rule, don't worry. The rules are now free. Wisconsin
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws, Administrative Code, Administrative Register Wyoming
- Constitution, statutes, legislation, session laws The Constitution text is part of the statute database.
- Administrative rules Misc
- Drafts of Uniform and Model Acts (from NCCUSL )
- State laws by topic (from Cornell )
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