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What's a State Publication?

M.C.A. 22-1-211:

"‘State publication’ means any information originating in or produced by the authority of a state agency or at the total or partial expense of a state agency that the agency intends to distribute outside the agency, regardless of format or medium, source or copyright, license, or trademark. The term does not include information intended only for distribution to contractors or grantees of the agency, persons within the agency, or members of the public under 2-6-102 or information produced by a state agency that is intended strictly for internal administrative or operational purposes."
Submit state publications intended by the agency for distribution outside the agency. Examples include:
annual and biennial reports
audits (financial and management)
brochures
budgets and budget requests
codes (published as compendia)
directories and rosters
drafts of plans (published for public review)
environmental impact statements (draft & final)
financial reports
handbooks, guides and manuals
journals and magazines
laws (published as separate compendia)
maps
MEPA documents
newsletters
pamphlets
planning and evaluation documents
research reports and studies
rules and regulations (as compendia)
standards (as compendia)
state or strategic plans
statistical compilations

The above lists are based on lists created by the Texas State Depository Library Program.

Questions? Please email statepublications@mt.gov or call 444-3016. 		Do NOT submit state records, which are intended for internal use only.
Examples include:

agendas
advertisements
affidavits
announcements
art work
applications
calendars
contracts
correspondence
fiction
forms
fund raising materials
grant proposals
bids, hearings (transcripts of)
job announcements
memorabilia
memoranda
minutes of meetings
news or press releases
newsletters & mailing lists (internal)
notices of proposed rule adoption
notices of sale
personnel manuals
petitions
photographs
policy handbooks
programs announcements
recruitment materials
reprints (reissued without change)
speeches
stationery
telephone directories
volunteer newsletters