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Texas Legislature Online

Website of the Texas Legislature Online, maintained by the US State of Texas. The site is aimed at both the legal profession and the general user. lnformation is given on the Texas House of Representatives and the Senate with details of members, committees and journals for both. FAQs offer guidance on how to follow the status of a bill through the legislature, how to view the text of a bill, and how to find out when a public hearing is being held. Users can search for bills by number, legislature or information type.

New Jersey Legislature

Official website of the New Jersey Legislature in the United States. General and background information about the Legislature is provided as well as lists of Members and details of committees. Full text documentation on the site includes statutes, chapter laws back to 1996 and a copy of the Constitution. Bills back to 1996 can be searched by number, keyword, sponsor or subject on the site. Other publications provided include Senate and General Assembly rules (PDF), the Legislative Digest and legislative reports of the various committees.

Illinois Compiled Statutes

Internet site offering a compilation of Illinois Statutes from databases used by members and staff of the Illinois General Assembly in the State of Illinois, USA. The provisions have not been edited for web publication and their accuracy is not assured. Information on the site is maintained by the Legislative Reference Bureau for Illinois. The compilation is presented via a table of contents listing codified statutes in chapter number order. The site includes links to the full-text of Public Acts, to the Illinois Constitution, and to Bills and Regulations from the current General Assembly.

Idaho Statutes

Internet version of the Idaho State Code, on the Idaho Legislative Department website. The Code, comprising the consolidated and codified statutes of the State, is presented via a contents table in title number order with links to sub-sections. There are links to the home page of the Idaho Government website, the Idaho Legislature and to a keyword search engine.

BIJUS: Dokumentarische Schnittstelle zweier Rechtskulturen

BIJUS is a joint project between the Universities of Saarland in Germany and Nancy in France to promote communication between French and German lawyers. The first part is a bibliography to enable German lawyers to search for books on French law by using terms in German. The reverse is available in French. The second part provides a small selection of full-text key legislation in both French and German. All information is freely available and does not require registration or payment.

Ontario's eLaws

This site, giving access to the full-text of Ontario's Current Consolidated Statutes online, is provided by the Ministry of Attorney General. Public and private statutes as enacted and regulations as filed are also made available back to 2000. This legislation can be searched or browsed on the site. Repealed statutes and and revoked regulations are also available along with Period in Time law for laws amended or affected by a coming into force event after January 1, 2004.

United States Statutes at Large

Library of Congress web service providing a digital version of early volumes of the US Statutes at Large, the official source for the laws and resolutions passed by Congress which began publication in 1845. Page images from the original published text are presented on the web as part of the American Memory, Library of Congress "Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation" collection, containing US Congressional documents and debates. All public and private law enacted by the Congress appeared in Statutes at Large in date of passage order.

Sénat: Liens

The Links ('Liens') page on the website of the French Senate offers links to French legislation, the courts of France and jurisprudence, French local authorities, European law, political parties represented in the Senate, and international institutions. Among the legislation links are the full-text of the Constitution, the Journal Officiel and the consolidated texts of major legislation. The courts links include the Cour de Cassation, le Conseil d'Etat and the Cour des Comptes.

United States Code

The website of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the US House of Representatives provides access to the full text of the US Federal Code. The Code is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. Titles 1 to 15 of the Code are based on the 2006 edition (laws enacted through the 109th Congress ending January 3, 2007). Titles 16 to 50, the Appendix, Tables I-VI, and the Table of Popular Names are based on Supplement V of the 2000 edition (January 2, 2006) of the Code.

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR)

The e-CFR is a continually updated online version of the US Code of Federal Regulations, produced by the Office of the Federal Register and the Government Publishing Office. The eCFR can be browsed by title/subject and there are simple and advanced search facilities. There is also a link to the annual edition of the Code on the FDsys website. The annual edition is a digitally-signed and authenticated version, unlike the e-CFR: a disclaimer on the eCFR site warns that the eCFR is not the official legal version.

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