Congressional Bills and Bill Tracking on LexisNexis

If its year of introduction and bill number are known a bill can be retrieved in unofficial full text on LexisNexis by conducting a Get a Document citation search. In the "Get by Citation" box click "Citation Formats" and enter "Congressional bills" in the retrieved "Citation Format Assistant" box. Then in the appropriate bill citation form search box enter the year, back to 1989, and the bill number to access the House or Senate bill and its accompanying bill tracking report. “Congressional Full Text Bills – Current Congress” (BLTEXT). Bills are archived in “Full Text Bills - Historical” back to the 101st Congress, 1st session (1989) - ( BTX101). “Congressional Bills and Bill Tracking – Current Congress” (BILLS) combines BLTEXT and BLTRCK, a database providing up to date status reports on currently pending bills. The LexisNexis Sources path for all of these databases is: Legal>Legislation & Politics-U.S. & U.K.>U.S. Congress.
The “Bill Tracking Report – Current Congress” (BLTRCK) database tracks the status of bills pending in the current Congress. “Bill Tracking – Historical” permits tracking of bills from previous Congresses back to the 101st Congress (BLT101). The Sources path for these two databases is: Legal>Legislation & Politics-U.S. & U.K.>U.S. Congress.