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• How We Differ From On-line Databases, and Document Retrieval Services
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Comparison of New York Lesgislative Service, Inc. to Online Databases or Document Retrieval Services

While the staff at NYLS has a thorough understanding of legislative intent and will supply a complete legislative history, document retrieval services or databases can only give you documents that you ask for-  which are only a piece of the puzzle.  This of course assumes that you are able on your own to determine which Chapter Laws created or modified the section of the statute that you are researching. That is something that we are very capable of doing.  Below is a more obvious comparison of our service to that of others.

 
What you get from an online database or document retrieval service:

NO expert assistance available
1) The Governor’s Bill Jacket- maybe
2) Debate transcripts- maybe

What you get from New York Legislative Service, Inc.:

Experts answer the phone.
They assemble everything available from:
1) Governor's Bill Jacket
2) Senate debate transcripts
3) Assembly debate transcripts
4) Legislative Committee Reports
5) Senate & Assembly documents
6) Bar Association memos
7) Bar Association Reports
8) Law Revision Commission Reports
9) Public hearing transcripts
10) Public sector memos, reports
11) News clippings
12) Documents are emailed to you!
13) Same-day service
* Largest collection of legislative histories in existence.
* Also have histories for NYC Local Laws
* The only source for Constitutional histories
* The only source for Budget Bill histories