Unlike Federal legislative history documents, D.C. legislative history documents are not widely available. In any version of the D.C. Code, at the end of each code section, there is a citation to the District of Columbia Register for the text of the Act; there is also a legislative history notes section which gives you the Bill, Act, and Law numbers, which are useful for retrieving the full text of the bill and other legislative history documents. The Official Code (and the Westlaw version) also tells you the committee to which the bill was referred.
Compiled Legislative Histories Collection (D.C. Courts Libraries): A collection of scanned and indexed DC legislative histories passed after DC Home Rule. Search by the first two digits for the council year and three digits for the law number.
Legislative History Documents include:
For historical legislation and analysis search for the Making of Modern Law Historical Legislation: District of Columbia collection in our catalog.
In Lexis, full-text bills, advance legislative service, and legislative bill history may be found in Statutes and Legislation. It also offers an Archived Code Search.
In Westlaw, search also state legislative history, statutes annotated - historical, bill tracking, bill tracking historical, and proposed & enacted legislation.
In Bloomberg Law, text of enacted legislation may be found through State Laws & Regulations.
LLMC Digital may contain digitized historical senate and house journals as well as historical state statutes and/or session laws. Filter first by State then by Category: House & Senate Journal, Legislative and/or Session(al) Laws.
State Legislative Sourcebook (in print, Call Number: Reference Desk JK2495 .S689), though ceased in 2021, is a 50-state guide on legislative information resources. In addition to providing the location of a state's legislative documents, it also includes sources for tracking services, document mailing services and best live person initial contact.