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July 2009
FED-LH legislative histories: Now 9,400 strong!
Only 10 short months ago, West e-lert reported that compiled histories for nearly 4,000 public laws enacted between 1974 and 1995 were available in the U.S. GAO Federal Legislative Histories database (FED-LH).
What a difference 10 months make.
FED-LH now contains compiled histories for almost 9,400 public laws, some going all the way back to 1954. (FED-LH is expected to contain 20,000 public laws by 2010.) The newly added histories include these biggies:
- Magnuson-Moss Warranty–Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act, Pub. L. No. 93-637 (landmark consumer warranty legislation)
- Garn-St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982, Pub. L. No. 97-320 (major deregulatory act governing real estate lending by savings and loan institutions)
- Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 (RESPA), Pub. L. No. 93-533 (consumer protection legislation to ensure timely disclosure to home buyers of the settlement process and costs)
To retrieve the entire legislative history for any of these laws—which may include PDF images of the full text of the public law, floor debates from the Congressional Record, congressional testimony, and presidential signing statements—simply access FED-LH and type the public law number, the name of the act, or other known information in the appropriate text boxes on the search template. Then click Search Westlaw.
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