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The full text of more recent laws are on the GPO govinfo and Congress.gov websites: GPO govinfo provides the full text of public and private laws from the 104th Congress (1995-1996) to the current Congress.

All 50 states have legislatures made up of elected representatives, who consider matters brought forth by the governor or introduced by its members to create legislation that becomes law. The legislature also approves a state's budget and initiates tax legislation and articles of impeachment.

Act: Legislation that has passed both houses of Congress and has been either approved by the President, or has passed Congress over his veto, thus becoming law. Bill: Formally introduced legislation. Most ideas for new laws, called legislative proposals, are in the form of bills and are labeled as H.R.

The United States Code-- is a compilation of federal statutory law arranged by subject by the House Office of Law Revision Council.

An unannotated code includes the text of the statutes and history notes identifying the origin and amendments for each statute. Annotated codes have this information and also contain citations to cases interpreting the statute, regulations pertaining to the statute, and secondary sources discussing the statute.

Use the United States Code Annotated® (USCA®) when you are working with a federal statute. The USCA includes citations to the CFR. To retrieve state regulations in print, you may need to contact the state agency directly for its regulations and administrative decisions.

A much more in-depth discussion and presentation of the overall legislative process are available in the Library of Congress's How Our Laws are Made and Enactment of a Law. The legislative process in a nutshell: First, a Representative sponsors a bill. The bill is then assigned to a committee for study.