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Top 10 US States by Total Regulation Count

PlainRegWatch state-level rollup ranking US states by the total number of cataloged regulations and enacted laws across all tracked policy categories.

Every figure on PlainRegWatch is rendered from curated state legislative and Federal Register source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Figures on this page come from the curated five-category archive. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Tracker scores and rule counts are curated records in five tracked categories - not enforcement strength, legal advice, a complete inventory of US law, or a live bill-status feed.