InfoBrief: Legislative and Regulatory Impact Reports

Tracking the amendments and proposed changes to laws and regulations is made easier on Lexis with their Legislative Impact and Regulatory Impact reports. In association with Potomac Publishing, Lexis offers real-time analysis of how proposed legislation and rulemaking impact existing law, and supplies data in a logical tabular form.

Impacts on the law are listed in three parts: amendments your law made to existing legislation; subsequent amendments to your law since enactment; and amendments to your law in bills from the current Congress. You can search by number or name for impact reports in the Lexis database: Legislative Impact and Regulatory Impact, which is listed under federal and state jurisdiction sources. Or from the initial Lexis search screen, select the Tab: Find a Source, and enter in Option 1 box: legislative impact.

This can pull together your ongoing research in federal or state issues, and can be valuable to your students who are writing papers based on a statute or regulatory scheme. You can even set up an Impact Alert to notify you when there are any changes to the report. For assistance in using Legislative Impact and Regulatory Impact reports, you are welcome to contact me or your own library liaison.

Best,

Pat Court
Associate Law Librarian
pgc1@cornell.edu