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Finding Banking Statutes

Statutes, both federal and state, are laws promulgated by legislatures.

Federal Statutes

• The United States Code is the permanent, subject arrangement of statutes. In general, the paper indexes of statutory codes (particularly the annotated codes) are easier to use than the online versions.
  • United States Code ("U.S.C."): official version (Pappas Reading Room, Stack No. 2)
    • Online access to U.S.C. is provided by GPO Access.
  • United States Code Annotated ("U.S.C.A.") and United States Code Service ("U.S.C.S."): unofficial, annotated versions of the code, which are more up-to-date than the official version. (Pappas Reading Room, Stacks Nos. 2 and 3)
  • LexisNexis: United States Code Service (CODES;USCS)
  • Westlaw : United States Code (USC) and United States Code Annotated (USCA)
  • Legal Information Institute (Cornell): United States Code (Title 12)
    • Law about...Banking: includes links to federal statutes related to banking law.
• United States session laws are federal statutes arranged chronologically, as they are passed by the Congress.
  • United States Statutes at Large ("Stat.") (Pappas Reading Room, Stack No. 1)
  • United States Code Congressional and Administrative News ("U.S.C.C.A.N") (Pappas Reading Room, Stack No. 2)
  • LexisNexis: public laws (LEGIS:PUBLAW)
  • Westlaw: public laws (US-PL) and United States Code Congressional and Administrative News (USCCAN)
  • Thomas: Public Laws, from the Statutes at Large (PDF, 93rd Congress to present)
  • Historical coverage of Statutes at Large is provided by Hein Online.
  • GPO Access: U.S. Public and Private Laws (1995 to present)
• Bills before Congress
  • LexisNexis: pending bills (LEGIS:BILLS)
  • Westlaw: pending bills (US-BILLTRK)
  • Thomas web site from the Library of Congress: pending bills
• It may be useful to look at the legislative history of federal statutes.

State Statutes

There are a variety of sources, both online and paper, for state statutory research. As with federal statutory research, paper resources, particularly annotated codes, are often easier to use when starting a state statutory research project.

• Pappas Law Library has the statutory codes of all fifty states in print.
• LexisNexis and Westlaw also include the codes for all states and territories, as well as state bill information.
• Legal Information Institute (Cornell):
  • Law about...Banking includes some links to state materials
  • Links to select state statutes related to financial institutions
• Web sites for many state legislatures include links to statutes, session laws and pending bills.

Page maintained by David Bachman
Last updated: February 2009