The History of Bills lists legislative actions on bills that are reported in the Congressional Record . It is part of the print Congressional Record Index , which is published biweekly by the Joint Committee on Printing when Congress is in session, but it is maintained as a separate application on GPO Access . GPO Access contains the History of Bills from 1983 to the present.
Databases are cumulative from the beginning of each congressional session.
The current year s database is updated daily, usually the day after publication of the Congressional Record . A typical entry includes a bill number, title, summary, names of sponsors and co-sponsors, and a chronological list of actions on the bill. In the list that displays your query results, the bill number and title of each History of Bills document are preceded by an identification code. A catalog will be retrieved for any year of the History of Bills that is highlighted in the scroll box on the search page. The following sample searches are provided as guides to general types of searches in the History of Bills .