Wisconsin Legislative Drafting Records - University of Wisconsin Law Library

Drafting records are written materials, letters, and memoranda given to or created by the legislative drafting attorney in the process of drafting a bill, resolution, or subsequent amendments. Although these records are not designed to document legislative intent, they may provide some insight into the meaning of statutory language.

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Records from the 1999-2005 sessions are also available from the Wisconsin Legislature.

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The Wisconsin Legislative Drafting Records database is generated from scanned images created for by the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. The UW Law Library has made these electronic records freely available from our Web site. Records are available in PDF format.

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For tips on using the database, see the Wisconsin Legislative Drafting Records Quick Guide.
For more details about drafting records and other sources of legislative history, see:

Researching Legislative History in Wisconsin by Michael J. Keane, Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, Wisconsin Brief 06-10
Researching the Legislative History of Wisconsin Laws: An Annotated Bibliography by Bill Ebbott, UW Law Library