RESEARCH GUIDE

COMPILED LEGISLATIVE HISTORIES


 

Selected federal legislative histories are published in United States Code Congressional and Administrative News (USCCAN). They are arranged by Public Law Number


Resource/Location
Library/Call Number
United States Code Congressional Service    
77th Cong.1st Sess. (1941) - 81st Cong.2nd Sess. (1950)
MICROFICHE
United States Code Congressional and Administrative News  
82nd Cong.1st Sess. (1951) - 96th Cong.1St Sess. (1980)   MICROFICHE
96th Cong. 2nd Sess. (1980) - Current     FEDERAL KF48.U54
Social Law Members can also access hundreds of Compiled Legislative Histories by logging into HeinOnline’s U.S. Federal Legislative History Library and browse by Publication Name, Public Law Number, or Popular Name.

The Library also owns many separately compiled federal legislative histories in print:
ADA    

Americans with Disabilities Act Annotated: Legislative History, Regulations and Commentary

1st floor Non-core KF480 .A325 M39 1994
ARBITRAGE
 
Arbitrage: Source and Lecture Materials with Legislative History.
1st floor Non-core 
KF6383 .A97 1988
BANKING    
FIRREA: A Legislative History and Section-by-Section Analysis. 3 Vols.
4th Floor KF1009 .A315 P85 1990
Legislative History of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act: Public Law No. 106-102, 113 Stat. 1338. 4th Floor
KF975 .M31 2001
Corporate Fraud Responsibility: A Legislative History of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
4th Floor
KF9236.5 .C665 2003
BANKRUPTCY    
Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978: A Legislative History. 4th Floor
KF1511.52 .A15 1979
Also Available on MICROFICHE
Federal Bankruptcy Law: A legislative History of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994, P.L. No. 103-394.
1st floor Non-core        
KF1526.A32 A15 1998
Bankruptcy Reform: The Legislative History of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. 4th Floor KF1511.573 .A15 2006
Collier on Bankruptcy, 16th Ed.
4th Floor
KF1524 .C6 2009
Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice 2d. Vol. 8 Bankruptcy Code
4th Floor
KF1524 .N67 2008
BUDGET    

Deficit Control and the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act:  the Legislative History of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-177). 5 Vols.

4th Floor
KF6222.119 .A15 1986
Federal Deficit Control: a Legislative History of Public Law 100-119. 32 Vols. 
4th Floor
KF6222.120 .A15 1989
CIVIL RIGHTS    
The Civil Rights Act of 1991: a Legislative History of Public Law 102-166. 7 Vols.
1st Floor KF3464.A320 A15 1994
CONGRESS
   

Congress and the Courts: a Legislative History

Documents and materials regarding the creation, structure, and organization of federal courts and the federal judiciary

1787-1977 4th Floor
KF8713.8 1978
1978-1984
4th Floor KF8713.8 1985
1985-1992, the 99th through the 102nd Congresses
4th Floor KF8713.8 1994
1993-1998, the 103rd through the 105th Congresses
4th Floor
KF8713.8 1999
1999-2004, the 106th through the 108th Congresses
4th Floor
KF8713.8 2006
2005-2008, the 109th through the 110th Congresses
4th Floor
KF8713.8 2009
2009-2010, the 111th Congress
4th Floor
KF8713.8 2011
ELECTIONS     
Legal History of the Presidential Election Campaign Fund Act. 2 Vols. 1st Floor Non-Core
KF4920.A25 .L44 1984
ENVIRONMENT
   
Superfund: A Legislative History: the Evolution of Selected Sections of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act. 3 Vols.
4th Floor

KF1299.H39 S96 1982
Legislative history of the Clean Water Act of 1977 [microform] : a continuation of the legislative history of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act : together with a section-by-section index, 95th Cong., 2nd sess. (Comm. print 1978)] 4th Floor Microforms                              SuDoc #
Y 4.P 96/10:95-14/v.3-4
ERISA
 
ERISA: The Law and the Code, 2019-2020 Edition.  4th Floor KF3512.A29 U55
Bloomberg Law: access is restricted to designated terminal in the Library.
ERISA: Selected Legislative History, 1974-1986. 1st Floor Non-Core  KF3512 .A315 A15 1988
Legislative History of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974: P.L. 93-406. 3 Vols.
1st Floor Non-Core
KF3512 .A315 .A15 1976a
THE FLAG
   
The Flag in the Law: A Documentary History of the Treatment of the American Flag by the Supreme Court and Congress. 3 Vols. 1st Floor Non-Core
KF5150.A7 F56 1993
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
   

Freedom of Information Act and Amendments of 1974(P.L. 93-502) Source Book: Legislative History, Texts and Other Documents.

1st Floor Non-Core
KF5753 .A315 .A15 1975
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS    
The Contract Disputes Act: Five Year Annotation: Text, Legislative History, Legal Precedents. 1st Floor Non-Core
KF849 .P36 1984
IMMIGRATION    
Immigration Reform Law of 1986: Analysis, Text and Legislative History.   4th Floor
KF4806.56.A16 M66 1987
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
   
The Kaminstein Legislative History Project : A Compendium and Analytical Index of Materials Leading to the Copyright Act of 1976 1st Floor Non-Core
KF2989.56.A16 K35 1981
Nimmer on Copyright, Appendices Vols. 7 through 11 (1976 Copyright Act and DMCA)
 4th Floor
KF2994 .N55 1963
A Preliminary View of the Copyright act of 1976: Analysis and Text 
1st Floor Non-Core 
KF2994 .N53 1977
Omnibus Copyright Revision Legislative History. 17 Vols.  MICROFICHE
KF3180 .G54 1974
Gilson on Trademarks. Vols. 7 through 10    
INTERNATIONAL TRADE

 

 
United States-Canada Free-Trade Act: a Legislative History of the United-Canada Free-Trade Agreement Implementation Act of 1988, Pub. L. 100-44913 Vols 1st Floor Non-Core
KF6668.C32 1988 .A39 1990
LABOR    
Congress Makes a Law: the Story Behind the Employment Act of 1946.
1st Floor Non-Core KF4945 .B35 1950
Legislative History of the Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1974, Public Law 93-259.
4th Floor KF3484.554 .A15 1976
Legislative History of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947.
1st Floor Non-Core
KF3356.534 .A15 1985
Legislative History of the National Labor Relations Act, 1935
1st Floor Non-Core
KF3356.52 .A15 1985
Legislative History of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959.
1st Floor Non-Core
KF3356.544 A15 1985
LEGAL ETHICS    
A Legislative History: the Development of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct
4th Floor
KF306 .L45 2013 
The Legislative History of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct: Their Development in the ABA House of Delegates.
1st Floor Non-Core
KF306 .L45 1987
MEDICARE/MEDICAID
   
The Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1987: a Legislative History of Public Law 100-93.
1st Floor Non-Core
KF3821 .A32 .A15 1990 
PRIVACY
   
Legislative History of the Privacy Act of 1974, S.3418, Public Law 93-579.
1st Floor Non-Core
KF390.5.C6 .A3 1976
SECURITIES
   
Federal Securities Laws: Legislative History, 1933-1990.
1st Floor Non-Core
KF1066. A58 1983

The Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970(Amendment): Primary Source Material.Vol. 11A, Parts 2E & 2F

1st Floor Non-Core
KF1068.4 .F43 1971
Securities Primary Law Sourcebook. Vols. A & C
1st Floor Non-Core
KF1436.5 .S43 1996
SOCIAL SECURITY
   
Legislative History of Titles I-XX of the Social Security Act.
4th Floor 

KF3644.522.A4 L43

Also on MICROFICHE
SUPREME COURT    
The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800.
1st Floor Non-Core
KF8742 .A45 D66 1985
The Supreme Court of the United States: Nominations, 1917-2012
1st Floor Non-Core
KF8744 .J8 1975
TAXATION
   
Internal Revenue Acts of the United States: Legislative Histories (1909-1972)
4th Floor
KF6275.8
Legislative History of United States Tax Conventions. (Treaties)
4th Floor

KF6306 .A25 1986

Tax Management Primary Sources: Series V.
4th Floor Main 
KF6365 .T35
Tax Reform 1984: a Legislative History.
4th Floor
KF6276.557 .A15 1985
Tax Reform 1986: a Legislative History
4th Floor
KF6276.557 .A15 1987
 

For more Tax legislative histories, see MEZZ VERTICAL FILE, “Taxation”.

   
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
   
Guidebook to the Telecommunications Act of 1996  4th Floor
KF2762 .F47 1996
Telecommunications Act of 1996. PLI 440 Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks and Literary Property Course Handbook Series.
1st Floor Non-Core
KF2762.119 .A2 T45 1996