Legislative Histories Online

Rick McKinney, Assistant Law Librarian for the Federal Reserve Board Law Library announced last week that the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, DC, Inc. has made available a new site on its Legislative Source Book entitled "Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws in Electronic Format"(http://www.llsdc.org/sourcebook/leg-hist.htm). The selected laws are organized in alphabetical and public law number order and primarily come from (and are linked to) the Department of Commerce (DoC) Law Library online catalog (pin is any characters you choose). The site also contains many explanatory notes while each law contains links to related bill information on the Library of Congress (LoC) THOMAS site, to a current related U.S. Code site, and to a current related C.F.R. site. The public law legislative histories include Antidumping Act of 1921, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, theCopyright Law Revision of 1976, the Export Administration acts of 1965,1972 and 1979, the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976, and other laws. In the future it is hoped that other agencies and firms will add to this collection.