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State Bills and Bill Tracking on Westlaw

State bills and bill tracking on Westlaw (from Information for Public Affairs, Inc.) - ST-STN-BILLTXT offers unofficial full text coverage of bills for all states from current and recently ended legislative sessions and includes ballot measures since 1996. ST-STN-BILLTRK contains summaries and tracks bills from the current and recently concluded legislative sessions for all states. The ST-STN-BILLS database combines ST-STN-BILLTXT and ST-STN-BILLTRK. BILLTXT-OLD contains full texts of bills from legislative sessions for all states prior to 2000 - back to 1991 for selected states and since 1995 for all states. ST-BILLTRK-OLD contains bill tracking reports from past legislative sessions for all states beginning in 1991. ST-BILLS-OLD combines BILLTXT-OLD and ST-BILLTRK-OLD. XX-BILLTXT provides access to bills from the current legislative session of individual states. (XX is a state’s postal abbreviation.) XX-BILLTRK provides summaries and tracking reports for the current bills of individual states. XX-BILLS combines XX-BILLTXT and XX-BILLTRK. The Scope Citation Formats sections of the individual state XX-BILLS databases provide citation formats that can be used to retrieve both the full text of a bill and its status report with Find. XX-BILL-TXT-OLD provides archived bills for individual states with coverage duplicating that available in BILLTXT-OLD. XX-BILLTRK-OLD offers summaries and tracks bills from the past legislative sessions of individual states since 1991. XX-BILLS-OLD is a multibase combining XX-BILL-TXT-OLD and XX-BILLTRK-OLD. iate fill-in