Generally, current bills and bill status are posted on each state legislature's home page. (The National Conference of State Legislatures posts links to all State Legislatures pages at http://ncsl.org/pulic/sitesleg.htm). Otherwise, you can get bills from Lexis and Westlaw. For older bills, call the document delivery service of a state, bar or law school library in the relevant state.
You can do a simple search for bills from all states for free using Scout. For more sophisticated searching, use Lexis, Westlaw or another commercial service.
For more specific information, see the entries for individual states.
Bill Tracking: You can generally track the progress of a state bill by checking the free postings on the state legislature's Web site. For more complex or ongoing bill tracking projects, you might want to try contacting the following companies:
You can track New York bill with Bloomberg Law.
For more specific information, see the entries for individual states.