D. State Legislation

15. State statutes are published in the same manner as the federal statutes. The equivalent to the Statutes-at-Large are known generically as Session Laws. The codified statutes are usually only available through private publishers in an annotated version. In most states the editing of the statutes as well as the printing is contracted out to the private publisher. Often that version is known by the name of some long dead original editor. In New York where the equivalent of the USC is known as the Consolidated Laws of New York, one print version is known as McKinney's and the other is known as the Consolidated Laws Service, or CLS. The tables covering the states in the Bluebook will indicate what is standard in each state. A good starting point for state statute research on the Internet is the Cornell Legal Information Institute website. A starting point for information on the status of bills before they become law in the various states is the MultiStates Associates site.

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