11.1 Statutory Materials

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11.1 STATUTORY MATERIALS

11.101 Statutes by Subject.

A. General Laws.

1. Code of Virginia 1950, Annotated, index.

2.. West's Annotated Code of Virginia, index.

3. Fastcase and CaseFinder.

4. Lexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg Law.

5. Virginia Legislative Information System.²

6. Cumulative index of bills and resolutions for each legislative session. Interim index to current session, regularly updated during the session (LIS).³ Acts of the General Assembly (indexed) in pdf format (2014-).⁴

B. Special and Local Laws.

Cumulative index of bills and resolutions for each legislative session. Interim index to current session, regularly updated during the session (LIS).⁵ Acts of the General Assembly (indexed) in pdf format (2014-).⁶

11.102 Statutes by Popular Name.

1. Virginia Legislative Information System.⁷

2. Shepard's Virginia Citations (statute volume), "Table of Virginia Acts by Popular Names or Short Titles."

3. Shepard's Acts and Cases by Popular Names.

4. West's Annotated Code of Virginia.

11.103 Predecessors of Current Statutes.

1. Code of Virginia 1950, Annotated, "Tables" (vol. 10).

2. Code of Virginia 1950, Annotated, parenthetical history at the end of each Code section.

3. Virginia Code Commission. Tables comparing the old statutes to the new, as part of recodification of titles.⁸

4. Lexis.

5. Justia.⁹

6. HeinOnline. Superseded versions of Virginia statutes in "State Statutes: A Historical Archive."

11.104 Acts of the General Assembly by Subject.

1. Acts of the General Assembly, subject-matter index across sessions from 1995 to date.¹⁰

2. Cumulative index of bills and resolutions for each legislative session. Interim index to current session, regularly updated during the session (LIS).¹¹ Acts of the General Assembly (indexed) in pdf format (2014-).¹²

3. Virginia Legislative Information System.¹³

4. Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg Law, and HeinOnline.

5. Fastcase and CaseFinder.

11.105 Acts of the General Assembly by Bill Number.

1. Summaries of Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia for each session from 2010 to present.¹⁴

2. Cumulative index of bills and resolutions for each legislative session. Interim index to current session, regularly updated during the session (LIS).¹⁵ Acts of the General Assembly (indexed) in pdf format (2014-).¹⁶

3. Senate Journal and House Journal, bound volume for each year's regular and special sessions.¹⁷

4. Acts of the General Assembly.¹⁸

5. Virginia Legislative Information System.¹⁹

6. Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg Law, and Fastcase.

11.106 Acts of the General Assembly Amending or Repealing a...