[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 841 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 841

 To amend chapter 2 of title I of the United States Code to establish 
                      the style for amending laws.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 28, 2011

  Mr. Owens introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend chapter 2 of title I of the United States Code to establish 
                      the style for amending laws.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Legislative Transparency Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. AMENDING LAWS.

    Chapter 2 of title 1 of the United States Code is amended by adding 
at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 115. Amending laws
    ``No Act shall be revised or amended by mere reference to it. Every 
bill or joint resolution which amends an existing section, subsection, 
or other subdivision of any Act shall set forth the section, 
subsection, or other subdivision sufficiently to enable the intent and 
effect of the bill or joint resolution to be clearly understood. The 
matter to be deleted shall be enclosed in brackets and any new matter 
added shall be in italics.''.

SEC. 3. CONFORMING AMENDMENT.

    The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 2 of title 1 of 
the United States Code is amended by adding after the item relating to 
section 114 the following new item:

``115. Amending laws.''.
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