Tracking Regulations

Sue Altmeyer, Electronic Services Librarian, sue.altmeyer@law.csuohio.edu | February 23, 2009 – 10:54

One of the topics covered in last Thursday’s Administrative Law Research Seminar was how to stay up to date on new final and pending regulations.

For federal regulations, try these free options:

Justia Regulation Tracker – create an RSS feed of new proposed and/or final regulations, limited by agency, agency department and keyword. For example, create a feed for OSHA regulations concerning cranes used in construction.

OpenRegulations.org – create an RSS feed by agency. While you can not limit by key word, you can use an easy filtering tool such as Feed Sifter to limit your feed results. See our prior post RSS Feed Filtering Made Easy.

For Ohio the only “free” option is to set up a WatchThatPage on the Register of Ohio site or an agency site.

For both state and federal regulations, try a LexisNexis / Westlaw Alert. Set up an alert of the federal register database or Ohio databases such as OH-REGTXT (Westlaw) or OHRTXT (Lexis). See Ohio Administrative Law Guide for more suggestions.