Types of Research

Research of individual California statutes or California Codes, the California Code of Regulations, California Rules of Court, and State Bar's Rules of Professional Conduct can be performed on a sliding-scale, based upon how soon the research is needed. We can provide custom research anywhere from a same-day basis to two-to-three weeks.

You can also obtain California statutory research from our online store. Click here to search for your enactment of interest. To see the difference between store research and custom research, visit our Services page.

If your code section of interest has a long and complicated annotated history, we can trace the language for a fee. We would include our trace report and our recommendation. You can then decide whether to order custom or store research. For more information about tracing please visit our explanation on our FAQ page.

Types of Materials You Can Expect

For custom California Statutory research the types of materials you can expect are: surviving legislative committees' analyses and their bill files, author's or sponsor's legislative bill files, the Governor's bill file, every amended version of the bill, the final history, and any other related legislative committee files that may have been generated on the bill.

Regulatory research is provided two ways:
1) tracing of the language to its original adoption; and
2) obtaining the regulatory file maintained by the agency on the rulemaking.