Overview
Each United States jurisdiction (United States, each state) has a constitution, session laws and a code.
Session laws are the laws of a jurisdiction collected in chronological order. Individual U.S. laws are called Public Laws (e.g. Public Law 111-002) and individual Illinois laws are called Public Acts (e.g. Public Act 96-0073).
A code is a subject organization of all the laws currently in force in a jurisdiction.
Statutory Law Resources
- United States CodeOn govinfo. The United States Code (U.S.C.) contains those laws of Congress currently in effect. It is arranged by subject.
- Congress.govThis site tracks congressional legislation and provides full-text access to legislative documents.
- Nexis UniContains the United States Code and the legislative codes of all 50 states.
- State-by-State Legal MaterialsA state by state listing of government web pages with sources of state law provided by Cornell's Legal Information Institute.
- Illinois Compiled StatutesThe Illinois General Assembly's Legislative Reference Bureau provides the compiled Illinois legislative code on this web site.
