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Enacted Legislation

A bill becomes a public law when the President signs the bill or does not act within ten days (excluding Sundays) while Congress is in session, or when the Congress overrides President’s veto with two-thirds vote in each house. Public laws are published in chronological order in the following sources:

• United States Statutes at Large
  Print: Pappas Reading Room (1789 to date)
  Microfiche: Law Micro (v.1-v.90, 1789-1976)
  HeinOnline

• United States Code Congressional and Administrative News (U.S.C.C.A.N.) (1941 to date)
  Print: Pappas Reading Room

• Advance Legislative Service for United States Code Annotated (U.S.C.A.)
  Print: Pappas Reading Room

• Advance Legislative Service for United States Code Service (U.S.C.S.)
  Print: Pappas Reading Room

• CIS Congressional Universe
  Find Public Laws by number (100th Congress to date)
  Search Public Laws by keyword (100th Congress to date)

• Thomas (93d Congress to date)

• GPO Access (104th Congress to date)
  PDF available

• LexisNexis: USCS-Public Laws (100th Cong., 2d Sess. to date)

• Westlaw (93d Congress to date):
  U.S. Public Laws-Current (US-PL database)
  U.S. Public Laws 1973-2000 (US-PL-OLD database)

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Last updated: December 2008