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Pulling together material related to a Pennsylvania legislative history? If you are looking for reports or hearings, don't forget to check out the Pennsylvania General Assembly's Committee Archives page . Use this resource to search Committee Meetings and Public Hearings or Reports . Coverage...
ProQuest Congressional offers a wide range of legislative and executive publications, and with our new content coverage, ProQuest is now one of the most comprehensive places for Jenkins members to research Congressional publications. With this remote access database, you can search for committee...
Jenkins is excited to announce the addition of a new database for our members, Pennsylvania Election Law Legislative Histories . Since the 2020 election, we have received numerous requests for legislative histories of acts related to Pennsylvania election law. To benefit our library members, we...
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The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a legislative branch agency of the Library of Congress that provides "Congress with both anticipatory and on-demand research and analysis to support their legislative, oversight, and representational duties." CRS experts work to assist Congress during the...
Philadelphia's City Council's Legislative Information Center is the primary source for accessing bills, finding the bill history and obtaining transcripts of hearings (see our blogs Finding Bills and Resolutions and Finding Transcripts for more information). This site also provides access to the...
Legislative histories, or "the proceedings leading to the enactment of a statute, including hearings, committee reports, and floor debates" ( Legislative History , Black's Law Dictionary, 11th ed. 2019), can help researchers understand the legislative intent of a particular statute. In Pennsylvania...
Legislative histories can help determine the legislative intent of a particular statute. Librarians at Jenkins compile Pennsylvania legislative histories upon request. Our histories include remarks and debate found in the Pennsylvania House and Senate Journals. The histories we have already...
As a Jenkins Law Library member, you gain access to content that is uniquely valuable to Pennsylvania legal researchers. Our collection contains many hard to find materials such as historic Purdon’s Pennsylvania Statutes, Pennsylvania records and briefs, Pennsylvania House and Senate Journals,...
ProQuest Congressional enhanced its interface this summer, and its "Search by Number" feature has a new look. Search by Number is great to use when you have the citation of the document you are looking for. This feature can also be used when you are looking for documents that are related to a...
Looking for legislative history material for an older act in Pennsylvania? As described in our Pennsylvania Legislative History Research Guide , a good starting point includes the House and Senate Journals . These may contain speeches or debate from the House or Senate Floor relevant to your bill...