A legislative history is a compilation of the documents which express the purpose or intent behind the passage of a particular law.
The State Library compiles histories on all New Jersey laws which are general and permanent. Appropriations, temporary and executed, and repealer acts have historically been excluded.
Any given citation can have a number of pieces of legislation impact them. Therefore, our legislative history database is indexed by year and chapter number. To find the year(s) and chapter number(s) associated with a specific citation,
- access the full-text of the law using the NJ Legislature database of the NJ Statutes (unannotated).
- In the search box, place your citation in quotes and hit enter (for example, "39:3-76.5")
- at the bottom of the full-text, you will see a list of all the legislation that has impacted this citation.
