Titles 1 -- 16 as of January 1
Titles 17 -- 27 as of April 1
Titles 28 -- 41 as of July 1
Titles 42 -- 50 as of October 1
For example. Title 34 Education is revised every year on July 1st. The revision date of each print volume of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is printed on its cover. Many libraries do not have access to the print CFR volumes; however, the Code of Federal Regulations (Annual Edition) is available for free on the GPO's govinfo website.The annual revision date appears below the listing for each title:
Any changes to a regulation listed in either the monthly List of Sections Affected (LSA) or CFR PARTS AFFECTED section of the daily Federal Register will include a page number in the current Federal Register to learn about those changes.
Unofficial versions of the CFR are more up-to-date, requiring only one step for updating a federal regulation—checking the Federal Register. This allows you to skip the List of Sections Affected (LSA). For example, the GPO's unofficial e-CFR is typically current within a few days.
As shown above, on May 13, 2020 the e-CFR database was current as of May 11, 2020. Therefore, all that was necessary to update 34 C.F.R. § 300.17 was to check under Title 34 in the May 13th Federal Register's CFR PARTS AFFECTED DURING MAY.
Westlaw and Lexis are also examples of very current unofficial versions of the Code of Federal Regulations that require you to check only the Federal Register to update a regulation. Westlaw and Lexis also include citators. KeyCite is the citator for Westlaw. Shepard's is the citator for Lexis.
Citators use flags and signals to notify you:
Citators also provide secondary sources and cases that cite a regulation.
Some public libraries in South Carolina provide access to Westlaw for their patrons, while some South Carolina colleges and universities, including the University of South Carolina, provide access to Nexis Uni (by Lexis).