Law Journal Resources
Locating Legislative History Materials
Use ProQuest Legislative Insight and ProQuest Congressional to locate federal legislative history documents such as bills, committee hearings, committee/conference reports, and the Congressional Record. You may access the ProQuest databases via the MyBoydLaw Portal.
ProQuest Legislative Insight contains legislative history materials for enacted federal laws. If you are looking for legislative history materials related to a bill that was never enacted, please use ProQuest Congressional. Both databases provide the Search by Number feature in which you will be able to enter the citation to retrieve the document.
Nevada
- Check the Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau's compiled legislative history database to see if it contains legislative history for your bill.
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If the database does not have legislative histories for your bill, go to https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/ and select the bill's session, Bill Information, and then the bill number. This will take you to the webpage for the bill containing many types of legislative history documents including the bill texts, committee meeting minutes/agendas, and the bill's history.
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Some Committee meeting minutes from 1965 to 1991 are available at https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Division/Research/Library/LegHistory/Minutes/index.html
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For information on researching legislative history materials that are not available online (i.e. older materials), please consult the LCB's Legislative History Tutorial: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Division/Research/Library/LegHistory/Tutorial/NotCompiled.cfm
Other States
The Indiana University Maurer School of Law provides an inventory of legislative history guides for all 50 states. The guides explain how to access various types of state legislative history document.