The importance of this information is not only in letting people within a jurisdiction know what is changing, but also letting all jurisdictions across the country see what is being tried elsewhere. (slaw.ca)
This is because foreign nationals in their home nations aren't «persons within the jurisdiction of the United States,» and so laws like the Civil Rights Act only apply in spirit. (law.stackexchange.com)
(As the Fourteenth Amendment says, «nor shall any State... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.») (fortune.com)