Legislative Intent Service, Inc.

04/30/2026

Legislative Intent Service, Inc. is based just a few miles down the road from the country’s “bike capital” of Davis, California, and with the news of a fatal e-bike accident happening in this city of cycles recently, it hit close to home. It got us thinking about the rules of the road for this popular new form of transportation, and here is what we found.

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Legislative Intent Service, Inc. is based just a few miles down the road from the country’s “bike capital” of Davis, California, and with the news of a

02/24/2026

Click below to view our latest blog on California's Legislative Priorities for 2026.

California’s Legislative Priorities for 2026 Part 2 of the two-year cycle of California’s legislative session is underway here in 2026 and we thought we

12/18/2025

12/23/2024

The team at Legislative Intent Service wishes you a Happy Holiday and New Year! Thank you for your support in 2024, we look forward to working with you in 2025!

12/03/2024

“Not every idea is a good idea, no matter what our teachers told us growing up,” said Assemblymember Marc Berman, a Democrat from Palo Alto.

California lawmakers consider thousands of bills ever year. The Democratic Assembly speaker is lowering the limit on how many each legislator can introduce.

06/07/2024

A little legislative intent history, a little copyright primer and a little Mickey Mouse--this Hein blog is worth a read. If you want the legislative intent history on any of the Copyright Act federal laws, let us know!

As of January 1, 2024, Mickey Mouse is in the public domain—kind of. Mickey's journey from the Magic Kingdom to public domain re-wrote U.S. copyright law.

05/23/2024

OUR 50TH YEAR!

This year marks 50 years of providing legislative intent research to lawyers, law librarians and information specialists and other legal professionals all around the country. What started as a couple of recent law graduates answering questions for California attorneys about what the Legislature in Sacramento was up to has evolved into providing the history and intent of statutes and regulations in all 50 states and at the federal level.

WHAT DOES OUR LONGEVITY MEAN FOR YOU?

We were accessing legislative and administrative history materials before it was standard practice to keep files. In some cases, we have materials that are not available anywhere else.
In addition, our decades of institutional knowledge means we know how to find things related to legislative intent. If we don’t have something in-house, we know how to get it more efficiently than someone trying to search online for an answer.
We know that the types of documents available in 2024 are not the same documents available for bills enacted in 1824 and 1924, and we know what are available for these and any other earlier time periods. Our goal is always to locate these documents and to keep digging for more. So, when clients call and ask our staff attorneys if there could possibly be any materials available on their bill in question, our answer is always, “yes!”

10/16/2023

At LIS, we research at archives and libraries!

12/30/2022

Happy New Year from our team to yours!