Georgia Laws
(other titles: Georgia Session Laws / Acts and resolutions of the General Assembly of the state of Georgia)
1799-present:
HeinOnline (UGA researchers)
1799-1999
Georgia Legislative Documents
This resource provides access to the unformatted text of each page of each volume contained in the original Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia from 1799-1999. If you know the year of the legislation and the page number where the text of the legislation begins, you can use this resource to find and read the relevant page(s). For instructions on how to do a search, please view this brief tutorial: bit.ly/GaLegDocHelp. Hint: A piece of legislation might begin anywhere on the starting page. One useful visual cue is the phrase, Approved... (e.g., Approved March 27, 1995) which signals the end of one piece of legislation and the point right before the start of the next piece of legislation (hopefully the one you are seeking).
Note: If you are not a UGA researcher and you require the original page formatting, you will need to work with the print set such as UGA Libraries' set listed below either in person or through an intermediary such as the Map and Government Information Library or your InterLibrary Loan Department. If you are a UGA researcher, please use HeinOnline listed above.
1876-present print volumes:
Map and Government Information Library (GA L 407 ). Pre-1876 volumes are in the Special Collections Library.
2000-present:
Georgia Government Publications Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia
- Enter the database using the link above.
- Under the Collection Name filter in the left margin, select Georgia Legislative Documents.
- Use the Year filter in the left margin to find just the volumes for the needed year (session).
- How to know which volume to work with? The citation to a Georgia public law includes the starting page number. This refers to the page numbers within the volumes of the session. The sequence is continuous across all volumes for that session. Page numbers are included throughout the Text view of each volume on otherwise empty rows between paragraphs of text. Once you open a volume, click the Text view and scroll down a little way until you see the first page number of that volume. This will give you a sense of whether your public law is likely to be in that volume (each volume of public laws can contain approximately 1,000 pages).
- Once you are in the right volume and have clicked the Text view, you can either just scroll down the text until you find the correct page number where the public law starts, or, you can press crtl+f and search for the page number. The text of your public law begins somewhere on that page and runs on until the next public law begins.
