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Citation rules/Legislative materials/13.3 Hearings

Add the hearing’s legislative session

Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions

A state committee hearing names the session of the legislature as well as the body, the page and the year; a federal hearing, whose body is a numbered Congress, names none.1

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  1. 1R. 13.3(b) State committee hearings. Tables: R. 13.3(a) Federal committee hearings.
  2. 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
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  1. Abbreviate the legislative body
  2. Add the bill or resolution number
  3. Add the hearing’s legislative session
  4. Add the hearing’s title or year
  5. Add the legislative session
  6. Add the number of the Congress
  7. Add the state to the parenthetical
  8. Add the year of publication
  9. Remove “(enacted)”

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More in Legislative materials

  1. Abbreviate the legislative body
  2. Add the bill or resolution number
  3. Add the hearing’s legislative session
  4. Add the hearing’s title or year
  5. Add the legislative session
  6. Add the number of the Congress
  7. Add the state to the parenthetical
  8. Add the year of publication
  9. Remove “(enacted)”

Back to Legislative materials

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