GPO Access contains all published versions of bills
from the 103rd (1993-1994) Congress forward. The 111th Congress database
is updated by 6 a.m. (EST) daily when bills are published and approved
for release. In addition to searching, a browseable Catalog of Congressional
Bills is also available.
The Congressional Bills documents for the 111th and 110th Congress on GPO Access have been digitally signed and certified. GPO has signed and certified the PDF files to assure users that the online documents are official and authentic. Read more about GPO’s Authentication Initiative.
The digitally signed PDF files should be viewed using Adobe Acrobat or Reader version 7.0 or higher. Download the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
To view a catalog of bills for a Congress, select a Congress or Congresses
and click on the "submit" button without having entered any
search terms. Finally, select the appropriate document from the results
list.
To narrow a phrase, use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT, ADJ) and
quotes around phrases. For example: "national forests" AND
(conservation OR management).
To find variations on words, truncation can be used. For example:
legislat* will retrieve both legislation and legislative.