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Guide to Connecticut Legislative History
CSL Law/Legislative Reference Unit | Judicial Branch Law Libraries | General Assembly Legislative Search page | Landmark Legislative Histories
There are three types of legislative history documents that relate to each act passed by the Connecticut General Assembly:
- House of Representatives proceedings
- Senate proceedings
- Public hearing transcripts
Legislative history documents are available from the following four sources:
1. Connecticut State Library,
Law/Legislative Reference Unit
Complete legislative histories begin with acts passed in 1953.
Transcripts for public hearings prior to this year are also available for
some committees.
Photocopies may be ordered by telephone at 860-757-6590.
The Library is open Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Saturday 9:00
a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
The Library is closed on Sunday and
state
holidays.
The requester must identify the year and act number or bill number for each
legislative history ordered.
The photocopy charge is $.25/page, plus postage and handling.
Orders over 400 pages must be pre-paid.
Self-service photocopiers are available at the Library. The cost is
$.10/page with vendacard, and $.15/page with coin. Staff do not make change.
Search the database below to obtain page numbers of individual legislative histories for public acts from the 1999 session to the present. Type in your public act number (ex. PA 02-16) or bill number (ex. 5001). You will be presented with page numbers from committee hearings and House & Senate proceedings..
Legislative history information for Connecticut Constitutional Amendments adopted between 1965 and 2005.
2.
Connecticut Judicial Branch
Law Libraries
Legislative histories for acts passed from 1980 to the present are available
on microfiche in the
Connecticut Judicial Branch Law Libraries.
These microfiche are duplicates of the State Library material. Microfiche
reader-printers are available in all of the branch law libraries.
3.
Connecticut General Assembly
Legislative Search page
The Connecticut General
Assembly search page offers full-text House and Senate transcripts
and Committee Public Hearings from 1988 to the present online.
The Judicial Branch Law Libraries website offers a
step-by-step tutorial on how to effectively search for this
material.
* However, please be aware that the online versions do not include added
testimony for the public hearings. Also, official pagination is NOT included
for transcript and public hearing pages, and the pages aren't indexed or
corrected for missing or mistyped bill numbers.
4. Connecticut State Library
Landmark Legislative Histories NEW!
A series of compiled legislative histories on landmark Connecticut
legislation, with additional primary source material, act summaries, and
glossary of terms. Each set includes the complete official transcripts of
the Connecticut General Assembly House and Senate debate and the Connecticut
Joint Standing Committee public hearings. The volumes also contain
primary source material from the Permanent Bill File Archive and the State
Document Collection. They may be borrowed by visiting on-site or
through Interlibrary Loan.
Now available for circulation:
Legislative history of “An Act Concerning the Death Penalty”, Public Act 73-137, 1973 House Bill no. 8297
Coming soon:
Freedom of Information Act (PA 75-342)
Prepared by the Law and Legislative Reference Unit, Connecticut State
Library.
Last Revised October 2006