Research Guides: US and State Policy Research: Policy Research for States

Tracking Bills in Congress or State Legislatures

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After you log in to your Nexis Uni account and search, you can create an alert to monitor changes to a bill going through the legislative process. You can create these alerts from a full text bill or a bill tracking document. Once logged in you will see a bell icon at the top of the results screen

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Find state bills, laws, regulations and cases. For most states bill coverage goes back to mid-1990s.

National Conference of State Legislatures
NCSL provides research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues.
Open States
Search recent legislation and track bill progress
State Government Information (Library of Congress)
Links to state governments
Michigan Documents can be found in Library Catalog Search
The Hatcher Graduate Library is a depository for state of Michigan documents. You can locate these documents by using the Library Catalog Search.

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Find state bills, laws, regulations and cases. For most states bill coverage goes back to mid-1990s.

Council of State Governments Knowledge Center
Data and reports from the CSG organized by policy issue
Book of the States Online
Comparisons for states and territories with tables, charts and figures illustrating how state government operates. It also includes more than 30 articles from state leaders, innovative thinkers, noted scholars and CSG’s in-house policy experts that analyze and report on the transformations taking place in state government.
Book of the States in hard copy in the library
Volumes back to 1935