[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5759 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5759

 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

                             July 13, 2016

Mr. Amash (for himself, Mr. Jones, Mr. Massie, Mr. Polis, Mr. Brat, and 
 Mr. Huffman) 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 ``Readable Legislation Act of 2016''.

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 section of an Act shall be revised or amended by mere 
reference to it. Every bill or joint resolution which amends an 
existing section of any Act shall set forth the entire section, showing 
the omissions and insertions proposed by appropriate typographical 
devices.''.

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.''.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by it shall take effect on January 
3, 2017.
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