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2 U.S.C. § 285b — Functions
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The functions of the Office shall be as follows:
(1) To prepare, and submit to the Committee on the Judiciary one title at a time, a complete compilation, restatement, and revision of the general and permanent laws of the United States which conforms to the understood policy, intent, and purpose of the Congress in the original enactments, with such amendments and corrections as will remove ambiguities, contradictions, and other imperfections both of substance and of form, separately stated, with a view to the enactment of each title as positive law.
(2) To examine periodically all of the public laws enacted by the Congress and submit to the Committee on the Judiciary recommendations for the repeal of obsolete, superfluous, and superseded provisions contained therein.
(3) To prepare and publish periodically a new edition of the United States Code (including those titles which are not yet enacted into positive law as well as those titles which have been so enacted), with annual cumulative supplements reflecting newly enacted laws.
(4) To classify newly enacted provisions of law to their proper positions in the Code where the titles involved have not yet been enacted into positive law.
(5) To prepare and submit periodically such revisions in the titles of the Code which have been enacted into positive law as may be necessary to keep such titles current.
(6) To prepare and publish periodically new editions of the District of Columbia Code, with annual cumulative supplements reflecting newly enacted laws, through publication of the fifth annual cumulative supplement to the 1973 edition of such Code.
(7) To provide the Committee on the Judiciary with such advice and assistance as the committee may request in carrying out its functions with respect to the revision and c
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The functions of the Office shall be as follows:
(1) To prepare, and submit to the Committee on the Judiciary one title at a time, a complete compilation, restatement, and revision of the general and permanent laws of the United States which conforms to the understood policy, intent, and purpose of the Congress in the original enactments, with such amendments and corrections as will remove ambiguities, contradictions, and other imperfections both of substance and of form, separately stated, with a view to the enactment of each title as positive law.
(2) To examine periodically all of the public laws enacted by the Congress and submit to the Committee on the Judiciary recommendations for the repeal of obsolete, superfluous, and superseded provisions contained therein.
(3) To prepare and publish periodically a new edition of the United States Code (including those titles which are not yet enacted into positive law as well as those titles which have been so enacted), with annual cumulative supplements reflecting newly enacted laws.
(4) To classify newly enacted provisions of law to their proper positions in the Code where the titles involved have not yet been enacted into positive law.
(5) To prepare and submit periodically such revisions in the titles of the Code which have been enacted into positive law as may be necessary to keep such titles current.
(6) To prepare and publish periodically new editions of the District of Columbia Code, with annual cumulative supplements reflecting newly enacted laws, through publication of the fifth annual cumulative supplement to the 1973 edition of such Code.
(7) To provide the Committee on the Judiciary with such advice and assistance as the committee may request in carrying out its functions with respect to the revision and codification of the Federal statutes.
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There shall be prepared and published under the supervision of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives—
**(a) Cumulative Supplements to Code of Laws of United States for each session of Congress.—** A supplement for each session of the Congress to the then current edition of the Code of Laws of the United States, cumulatively embracing the legislation of the then current supplement, and correcting errors in such edition and supplement;
**(b) Cumulative Supplement to District of Columbia Code for each session of Congress.—** A supplement for each session of the Congress to the then current edition of the Code of the District of Columbia, cumulatively embracing the legislation of the then current supplement, and correcting errors in such edition and supplement;
**(c) New editions of Codes and Supplements.—** New editions of the Code of Laws of the United States and of the Code of the District of Columbia, correcting errors and incorporating the then current supplement. In the case of each code new editions shall not be published oftener than once in each five years. Copies of each such edition shall be distributed in the same manner as provided in the case of supplements to the code of which it is a new edition. Supplements published after any new edition shall not contain the legislation of supplements published before such new edition.
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The Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives is authorized to print bills to codify, revise, and reenact the general and permanent laws relating to the District of Columbia and cumulative supplements thereto, similar in style, respectively, to the Code of Laws of the United States, and supplements thereto, and to so continue until final enactment thereof in both Houses of the Congress of the United States.
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TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS
§ 282c
‘‘(2) the first day of the first applicable pay period
beginning on or after the date of enactment of this
Act [Dec. 20, 2019].’’
INCREASES IN COMPENSATION
Increases in compensation for House officers and em-
ployees under authority of Federal Salary Act of 1967
(Pub. L. 90–206), Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970
(Pub. L. 91–656), and Legislative Branch Appropriations
Act, 1988 (Pub. L. 100–202), see sections 4531 and 4532 of
this title, and Salary Directives of Speaker of the
House, set out as notes under those sections.
§ 282c. Expenditures
In accordance with policies and procedures ap-
proved by the Speaker, the Legislative Counsel
may make such expenditures as may be nec-
essary or appropriate for the functioning of the
Office.
(Pub. L. 91–510, title V, § 524, Oct. 26, 1970, 84
Stat. 1203.)
§ 282d. Official mail matter
The Legislative Counsel may send the official
mail matter of the Office as franked mail under
section 3210 of title 39.
(Pub. L. 91–510, title V, § 525, Oct. 26, 1970, 84
Stat. 1203; Pub. L. 92–51, § 101, July 9, 1971, 85
Stat. 132.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1971—Pub. L. 92–51 substituted provision for Legisla-
tive Counsel to send official mail matter of the Office
as franked mail under section 3210 of title 39, for former
provision granting the Office the same privilege of free
transmission of official mail matter as other offices of
the United States Government.
§ 282e. Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated, for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, and for each
fiscal year thereafter, such sums as may be nec-
essary to carry out this subchapter and to in-
crease the efficiency of the Office and the qual-
ity of the services which it provide
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