Congress.gov Notifications. Congress.gov Enhancements for April of 2023, Part 2

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Congress.gov Enhancements for April of 2023, Part 2

We are pleased to bring you the second installment of Congress.gov enhancements for April of 2023.

Enhancement – Historical Bill Text

  • The Historical Bill Text label denotes bill and document text that predates authenticated digital publishing.
  • Use the Historical checkbox on the legislation search form to search bill texts from the 6th through 10th Congresses (1799-1809) or bill titles and metadata from the 11th Congress and 13th through 42nd Congresses (1809-1811, 1813-1873).
  • Bills from the 6th Congress (1799) to 1817 (14th Congress) were not numbered but use a unique identifying number in the URL.
  • Historical bill text items also include tabs for Actions, Similar Bills, and Committees, as available. Similar Bills is a machine-generated list based on matching words in bill titles. Learn more about the Similar Bills Tool at About Related Bills.