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Legislative Search Instructions

Search by Bill Number

You may search for a particular piece of legislation by entering thebill type and number as shown below. Please Note that leading zeros inthe House Bill numbers are important!

House Bills
    H + 4 digit bill number, lowest bill number is 0001. Leading zeros are required!
      example: H0001 or H0258

House Resolutions, Joint Resolutions, Concurrent Resolutions, Joint Memorials, and Proclamations
    HR, HJR, HCR, HJM, or HP + 3 digit bill number Lowest bill number is 001. Leading zeros are required!
      example: HR001 or HCR025, etc.

Senate Bills
    S + 4 digit bill number, lowest bill number is 1001
      example: S1001 or S1258

Senate Resolutions, Joint Resolutions, Concurrent Resolutions, Joint Memorials, and Proclamations
    SR, SJR, SCR, SJM, or SP + 3 digit bill number Lowest bill number is 101
      example: SR101 or SCR125, etc.

Search by Bill Text

You may search through the text of the legislative bills by entering search terms in the entry form and clicking the 'Search' button. Search terms maybe entered without regard to case - capitalization is ignored. Additional search capabilities are available as described below.

Search Term Finds Pages That Contain*
crab OR lobster OR shrimp Any of the words crab, lobster, or shrimp
bank AND loan AND business All of the words bank, loan, and business
bank, loan, business Any of the words bank, loan, and business. The more instances of these words in a page, the higher it appears in the results list.
bank NOT river The word bank but not the word river
HTML publishing The word HTML close to the word publishing
HTML publishing The word HTML in the same sentence as the word publishing
HTML publishing The word HTML in the same paragraph as the word publishing

Stemmed Words

When you submit a single word query, the Verity search engine finds documents that not only match the term you entered, but also stemmed variations of the term.

Tip

You can always restrict the search to the term itself by enclosing it in double quotation marks.

Always use double quotation marks to enclose terms that include unusual characters like the ampersand in S&L. The Verity search engine automatically expands the search to include variations of the term with and without the unusual character.

CASE Modifier

If you enter your search term in completely in lower case or completely in upper case, Verity search engine looks for all mixed case variations.

Tip

If you are looking for pages about someone named Rose, enter the name with an initial capital letter. To make the search more precise, enclose the word in double quotation marks.

When you are searching for abbreviations or acronyms, case is important.

Note

Most Verity Query Language operators and modifiers must be enclosed within angle brackets (<>) to distinguish them from the actual query term. The words AND , OR , and NOT are always treated as Verity Query Language operators unless they are enclosed within double quotation marks.

Punctuation Marks in Queries

Any character without special meaning in the Verity Query Language can be entered anywhere in a query.

The following characters have special meaning in the Verity Query Language.

Character Description
, ( ) [ These characters end a text token.
= > < ! These characters end a text token because they signify the start of a field operator (! is special: != ends a token).
* @ ` < { [ ! These characters signify the start of a delimited token, which are terminated by the end character associated with the start character.

To search for a string that contains one of these characters, precede the character with a backslash.

Tip

To search for a string that contains a backslash character, enter two backslash characters.


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