Research Guides: Master of Advanced Study in Criminology: State Legislation

National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)

National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
The NCSL is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states.

Subject Compilations of State Laws (1960-)

Subject Compilations of State Laws (1960-)
Subject Compilations of State Laws in HeinOnline features a database giving you access to over 18,000 bibliographic records from Cheryl Nyberg and Carol Boast Robertson's Subject Compilations Bibliography Series.

National survey of state laws

National Survey of state Laws (2008) . Richard A. Leiter, editor
A quick, state-by-state comparison of current state laws -- how they differ and how they're similar -- for a range of relevant subjects from abortion to employment discrimination, child custody to interest rates.

Finding Statutes

Annotated State Statutes & Court Rules

Nexis Uni*
Nexis Uni provides access to State Statutes, Codes & Regulations.
WestlawNext*
WestlawNext provides access to the full text of all fifty states' State Statutes, Codes & Regulations.

State Codes

50 State Codes | Legal Information Institute [LII] Cornell University Law School, Open Access to Law Since 1992
The LII collection of state legal materials gathers, state by state, Internet-accessible sources of the constitutions, statutes, judicial opinions, and regulations for the fifty states, plus D.C., and the U.S. territories and affiliated jurisdictions.

State Session Laws

Hein Online * | Session Laws Library | All 50 State Session Laws
About the Session Laws Library: This Session Law Library offers the state session laws of all 50 U.S. states. A session law is a law that is published in an annual or other periodic volume that presents laws enacted during a particular session or sitting of the legislature in the order in which they were passed. ...
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Session laws at the federal level are designated public laws or private laws and are published in Statutes at Large. Session laws at the state level are published in volumes printed by the state or by a private legal publisher.

This Session Law Library offers the state session laws of all 50 U.S. states as well as the federal laws of Australia and Canada from approximately 2000 to present.
Future releases in HeinOnline will include new session laws as published, as well as expanded coverage of historical session laws prior to 2000.
LLMC Digital *
"U.S. STATES" Collection. Law Library Microform Consortium Digital (LLMC) -- "LLMC, a non-profit cooperative of libraries, is dedicated to – and passionate about – its twin goals: 1) Preserving legal titles and government documents, and 2) Making this valuable content accessible and searchable."
California Statutes (1993-Present) | Legislative Counsel, State of California
California Statutes are the Chaptered Bills. A bill is "chaptered" by the Secretary of State after it has passed through both houses of the Legislature and has been signed by the Governor or becomes law without the Governor's signature. Statutes are available starting from 1993.
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Welcome to the official site for California legislative information. This WWW site is maintained by the Legislative Counsel of California, pursuant to California law.