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Bills and Chapters, Historical Index
Search by Chapter and / or Chapter Year
Search by Bill Number, Bill Type, and / or Chapter Year
Index. This "Bills and Chapters, Historical Index" provides the capability to find the bill number for a particular chapter, or the chapter number for a particular bill (that was chaptered), whether or not you know the calendar year the bill was chaptered. Similarly, a bill may be found by the number alone, even though you don't know the bill type. This Index includes chapters and bills back to the 1987 calendar year. It is updated daily, Tuesday through Saturday during bill signing periods.
Bill Id's. At the time a bill is introduced, it is assigned a unique bill-id, which consists of two parts — the bill type and the bill number. There are ten bill types, consisting of a two or three digit alpha code, e.g., SB, AB, SCA, or ACA.The bill number is a one to four digit serial number starting from one for each bill type. Chapter numbers are also assigned for each bill type; thus, there will often be several Chapter 1s, etc.
If the bill is introduced in an Extraordinary Session, then the bill type will have a suffix denoting which extraordinary session, such as SB1X. For purposes of the DOF Legislative Information System and this Index, DOF uses the extraordinary session designation as a prefix, e.g., X1SB, X2AB.
For more information about bill types and legislation, go to the Internet Legislative User's Guide.
Searches. The bills that meet your search parameter will be provided in a table that includes the following information:
(1)Type, (2)Number, (3)Year, (4)Chapter and (5)Date. Year is the calendar year, and Date is the last action date available to us, usually the date the bill was chaptered. You do not have to use leading zeros for bill or chapter numbers. For the calendar year, use the last two digits (rather than the four digits).The underlying data for this Index for the years prior to 1997 is from the old DOF Legislative Information System, and was manually input by various people over time. It is not 100% accurate; we found an error rate of ±1%. Beginning with 1997, the data is electronically input; the accuracy should be much better.
