2002 Special Session forward.
Each House of Representatives journal contains a record of the body's proceedings for that legislative session. This includes a record for each bill detailing its progress through the legislature.
2002 Special session forward.
Each Senate Journal contains a record of the actions of the body for that legislative session. This includes a record for each bill detailing its progress through the legislature.
1999 - Current
Oregon Laws is the official publication containing Oregon's session laws. Session laws are what the bills passed by the legislature are called after they are signed into law by the governor. The session laws are then organized into the Oregon Revised Statutes by the Office of the Legislative Counsel.
The legislature’s website contains a number of current and historical legal documents. These include the current and all past editions of the Oregon Revised Statutes, the Oregon Laws volumes since 1999 and the House and Senate journals.
OLIS is a state run repository of legislative materials starting with the 2007 regular legislative session. This site contains an increasing amount of materials. You can find the text of all the bills since 2007. For more recent sessions audio/video of committee hearings as well as submitted documents are available.
The Oregon Secretary of State Archives division holds all the official records of the legislature and the executive branch. This collection includes committee documents, original bills and administrative rule filings. The Archive’s web site has a number of helpful guides to finding their resources. Archives reference librarians are available to help you. They can prepare a legislative history for a fee and they make all previously prepared legislative histories available for free.
The Oregon State Library has digitized a historical collection of Oregon State Voter Pamphlets. These cover general elections from 1904 to the present. They contain the published arguments on the various measures and are a good source of information on public arguments contemporaneous with the ballot measures.
The Federal Documents System is the U.S. Government Publishing Office’s massive online repository of digitized federal documents. This site hosts federal documents ranging from the United States Code to Federal Court opinions. Start here for a document produced by any part of the federal government.
Congress's website has the Congressional Record, as well as information on recent bills and legislation, committees and committee reports, treaty documents, and more.
This office is responsible for the codification of federal laws. They also have some useful tools for use in researching federal law. The Popular Name Tool is what you use to find a statute when you only know it's popular name.
These tables allow a reader to track changes to a particular part of the United States Code. You can use them to identify when and how any code section was amended, enacted or repealed.
A excellent and continually updated list of federal legislative sources and guides. This guide is especially helpful if you are interested in researching federal legislative histories or the federal administrative rulemaking process.
The Uniform Law Commission is also known as the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. The ULC has drafted uniform legislation for states since 1892. Their site contains a comprehensive database of ULI model laws as well as drafts and supporting documents for more recent model laws.