Will All Bills Have Effective Dates?

No, effective dates will only be provided for enacted legislation that has been chaptered. Effective dates will NOT be provided for US Territories but they will be available for all 50 states, DC, and US.

Legislative types other than AB/HB/SB may not have effective dates.

A breakdown of what you can expect is below:

• 85% of Acts have clear effective dates that can be loaded once a final version of text is processed.
• 10% of Acts have effective dates with adjournment date dependencies. For example, in a state like Arizona bill may become effective the 91^st day after adjournment. Since projected adjournment dates change we will not calculate a hard effective date until the state adjourns sine die. For these types of bills the adjournment date language from the bill will be provided in the effective date field and the [code impact] table will note “Adjournment Date Dependency”. In this scenario the user may decide that they want get an estimate of when the new bill will likely take effect themselves instead of waiting for an official date when the state to adjourn sine die. 
• 5% of Acts do not have a clear effective. For example, in a state like Michigan vote ratification may be necessary. In other jurisdictions a bill may not become effective until another law is enacted. For these types of bills the appropriate language from the bill will be provided in the effective date field and the [code impact] table will note “See Act for Contingency”.

The code impact table will ONLY provide dates for existing code that will be impacted by the new Act. In some situations a bill may be effective immediately but the code changes may be retrospective or have different

Examples of chaptered bills that will have effective dates for that probably will not impact existing code include:

• Budget and appropriation bills
• Local Authorizations
• Legislation that creates task forces and study groups
• Bills that officially recognize an event (condolences, memorializes, expressions)
• Resolutions

Other examples of Act sections that have effective dates that don’t impact existing law and will be excluded from the [code impact] table include:

• Temporary Provisions
• Declared Emergencies
• Legislative Findings
• Effective Date Sections

As described above, there are different effective date scenarios in the State Net product, and the labels below are to provide the customer with an indication of when they can expect an effective date to be provided or if notification that the effective date status for a bill/act they may have review before has

• (Corrected): this will be used when a mistake is identified by our OPS team and a previously loaded effective date is corrected
• (Updated): For some jurisdictions once a state adjourns sine die, and an effective date is calculated for the bills with an adjournment date dependency the (Pending Adjournment) label will change to (Updated) with the appropriate date and MyAlerts notification can be provided. This way, the user realizes they have seen the Act before and understands that the official effective date is now available.