New Statutes and Pending Legislation
Bills for the current year only can be searched on the New York State Legislature's portal, via the following:
1. Bill No.
2. Approval No.
3.
Assembly Cal. No. (Assembly Calendar Number)
4. Assembly Reso. (Assembly Resolution)
5. Asm Rules Cal (Assembly Rules Calendar)
6. Chapter No.
7. Senate Cal. No. (Senate Calendar Number)
8. Senate Reso (Senate Resolution)
9. Veto No.
10. Word Search-Bills
11. Word Search - Resos )Word Search- Resolutions)
They can also be searched on Westlaw and Lexis. Below are databases that can be searched to find bills and the session laws of New York, for both current and historical information. In print, the session laws are printed within three resources:
- McKinney's Session Laws of New York, found at Hollis numbers 114403 (pre-1900), 115831 (1951-present), and 386627 (supplement) (unofficial publication).
- New York Consolidated Laws Service Session Laws (unofficial publication)
- Laws of New York (published by the New York Legislative Bill Drafting Commission) (official publication)
Westlaw:
- NY-BILLS (New York Bill Tracking - Summaries and Full Text Combined). For information regarding the coverage and update schedule of this database in Westlaw, click here.
- NY-BILLTRK (New York Bill Tracking). For information regarding the coverage and update schedule of this database in Westlaw, click here.
- NY-BILLTXT (New York Bill Tracking - Full Text). For information regarding the coverage and update schedule of this database in Westlaw, click here.
- NY-BILLS-OLD (New York Bills Archives). For information regarding the coverage and update schedule of this database in Westlaw, click here.
- NY-BILLTXT-OLD (New York Bill Text Archives). For information regarding the coverage and update schedule of this database in Westlaw, click here.
- NY-BILLTRK-OLD (New York Bill Track Summary Archives) . For information regarding the coverage and update schedule of this database in Westlaw, click here.
- NY-LEGIS (New York Legislative Service) (for new laws). For information regarding the coverage and update schedule of this database in Westlaw, click here.
- NY-LEGIS-OLD (New York Historical Legislative Service 1987-2004) (for new session laws passed between 1987-2004). For information regarding the coverage and update schedule of this database in Westlaw, click here.
Lexis:
For the update schedules of these files in Lexis, click on the "i" icon (source description) located on the right side of the library name, from within Lexis.
- NYBILL (New York Bill Tracking and Full-Text Bills) (from the current legislative session).
- NYTEXT (New York Full-Text Bills) (from the current legislative session).
- NYTRCK (New York Bill Tracking Reports) (from the current legislative session).
- NYALS (New York Advance Legislative Service). This file contains the full-text of laws that have been passed during the current legislative session.