LexisNexis Congressional Legislative Histories Legislative Histories, Complete, All Public Laws, 1999-present (basic subscription) Legislative Histories, Complete, Major Public Laws Only, (basic subscription) Legislative Histories, Abbreviated, All Public Laws, (basic subscription) Legislative Histories “on the fly” (Serial Set, CRDC, and Hearings Digital Products)

Creating On-the-Fly Legislative Histories : Step 1 Step 1: Search for citations linking enacted bill numbers with public law numbers If you know the PL number, bill number, or Statutes-at- Large citation, use the Search by Number form to find congressional publications related to a bill or law (try sample search 90 PL 449) Tip: Be sure to pull down the correct search task in the Search by Number form; the task option you want says “find congressional publications related to a bill or law”

Creating On-the-Fly Legislative Histories : Step 1 (cont.) If you don’t know have a citation number, do a keyword search using the information you do have on the Advanced form combined with a search for “PL” in all fields except full-text (try sample search “Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 AND PL”) Tip: Remember to change the date restriction from “previous 2 years” to “all available dates” or a date range that specifically matches your desired search results

Creating On-the-Fly Legislative Histories: Step 2 Step 2: Search for other publications related to search results obtained in Step 1. Examples of on-the-fly search strategies: Search on enacted bill number Replicate successful Step 1 keyword search without using the “AND PL” component; try expanding date range to retrieve publications from earlier Congresses and winnow results using Focus search feature Open individual records and use Find More Like This feature to retrieve publications with related subject terms

More Strategies to Create On-the-Fly Legislative Histories Search for enacted bill number in all fields including full-text Search the full text of legislative reports for the enacted bill number to find bill numbers for related bills Expand your research to find additional publications citing bills related to the enacted bill

More Tips As you find bill numbers, Public laws numbers, and Statutes-At-Large citations, return to the Search by Number form to execute new searches Citation numbers found by searching in all fields except full text may be searched from the Advanced or Basic forms, as long as the citation format is not changed Don’t forget to include CIS legislative histories in your search for laws enacted from 1969 forward.