New Jersey Resources: Statutes & Legislation

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This lib guide will provide information for students, practitioners, and unrepresented litigants on New Jersey resources, including practice materials, information on the New Jersey courts, and other print/electronic resources.

Legislative History Documents

via the NJ State Library. Legislative history references for Laws of 1970 forward; the 1970 to 1997 histories (still being scanned and uploaded) include texts of bills, committee statements, and governor's messages; the histories from 1998 forward have links to bill texts, committee statements, and public hearing texts.

This is part of the legislative history of Title 59 of the N.J. Statutes (1972), available from the NJ State Library.

Other Statutory Materials

Includes Commission reports. via Rutgers Law Library 1994, from the NJ State Library.

New Jersey Statutes and Legislation

Includes Leaming & Spicer's Grants & Concessions (laws from 1664 to 1702), the Revised Statutes of 1846, the Revision of 1877 the General Statutes of 1895, and Luce's Tables. (via Rutgers Law Library)

Includes:
New Jersey Permanent Statutes Database (to search or browse the current unannotated statutes);
Chapter Laws (1996 to current);
Bills (1996 to current);
Public Hearings (1996 to current);
Audio and video recordings of selected floor and committee proceedings (2001 to current).

A full-text, browsable archive of acts of the New Jersey legislature, 1776 to 1999. (via Rutgers Law Library)

Search and browse the current version of the New Jersey Statutes, including automated retrieval of selected cited cases. (via Rutgers Law Library)