Library Guides: Laws and Regulations (United States): Regulations

Regulatory History Research

ProQuest Regulatory Insight This link opens in a new window
Provides researchers with resources associated with administrative law. As a companion to Legislative Insight, Regulatory Insight offers U.S. federal administrative law histories for the period 1936-present organized by federal statute and Executive Order. This also includes a research tool to facilitate regulatory research organized by Federal Agency.

Regulations

The chart below summarizes and simplified the regulatory process.

Another way to look at things is here:

The Federal Register

The Federal Register, begun in 1936, is the publication where notices of proposed rules are published. Twice per year executive branch agencies publish their proposed rules in the Unified Agenda. The Federal Register is the daily journal of the U.S. government (the executive branch), and the chart below shows the differences between the various places to get Federal Register content.

Code of Federal Regulations

Final rules are codified in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). CFR is published annually, and FR is published daily. The bridge between FR and CFR is LSA (List of CFR Sections Affected), as shown in the chart below.

Unified Agenda

Reginfo.gov
Describes the regulatory process in detail and is the easiest place to read the Unified Agenda.

Federal Register

Federalregister.gov
Easiest way to access current and recent past issues of the Federal Register.
Federal Register on Govinfo.gov
Access to the Federal Register from 1936 onward. Note: issues before 1995 take a long time to load and do not contain detailed metadata, as the later issues do.
Federal Register (govinfo)
The Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.
Regulations.gov
Easiest way to comment on proposed rules (and to see the comments of others!).
HeinOnline Federal Register Collection & Code of Federal Regulations
Full-text, image-based access to the Federal Register from 1936-present and the Code of Federal Regulations.

Code of Federal Regulations

CFR on Govinfo.gov
From 1996 to present
LSA on Govinfo.gov
From 1997 onward
eCFR
No need for LSA when you use eCFR. You can roll back CFR to 2000 and see changes just days after they appear in FR.
Code of Federal Regulations (govinfo)
The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) annual edition is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

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