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House Practice: Search Tips

Sample Searches (2)

The following sample searches are provided as guides to general types of searches in the House Practice. For the sake of space, only the top three hits in each results list are included with each example below. These searches were performed in the 108th House Practice.

1. Search by Subject

This type of search returns documents that are related to a specific subject. The word(s) that you enter as your search term(s) may appear anywhere within the document.

Query: "public bills"
  public ADJ bills
Results: [House Practice 108] CHAPTER 6
[House Practice 108] CHAPTER 12
[House Practice 108] CHAPTER 19

2. Search by Page Number

This type of search returns documents that appear wholly or partially on a specified page. You must include the word "page" in your query in order to eliminate the return of documents that include the page number as a numeric reference within the text.

Query: "page 731"
Results: [House Practice 108] CHAPTER 43