    [United States Senate Manual, 113th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 113-1]
    [USCODETITLE]
    [Pages 287-292]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                TITLE 1.--GENERAL PROVISIONS

                Chapter 2.--ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS; FORMALITIES OF ENACTMENT;
                               REPEALS; SEALING OF INSTRUMENTS

           275  Sec. 101. Enacting clause.
                    The enacting clause of all Acts of Congress shall be in
                the following form: ``Be it enacted by the Senate and House
                of Representatives of the United States of America in
                Congress assembled.'' (July 30, 1947, c. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)
           276  Sec. 102. Resolving clause.
                    The resolving clause of all joint resolutions shall be
                in the following form: ``Resolved by the Senate and House of
                Representatives of the United States of America in Congress
                assembled.'' (July 30, 1947, c. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)
           277  Sec. 103. Enacting or resolving words after first section.
                    No enacting or resolving words shall be used in any
                section of an Act or resolution of Congress except in the
                first. (July 30, 1947, c. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)
           278  Sec. 104. Numbering of sections; single proposition.
                    Each section shall be numbered, and shall contain, as
                nearly as may be, a single proposition of enactment. (July
                30, 1947, c. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)

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           279  Sec. 105. Title of appropriation Acts.
                    The style and title of all Acts making appropriations
                for the support of Government shall be as follows: ``An Act
                making appropriations (here insert the object) for the year
                ending September 30 (here insert the calendar year).'' (July
                30, 1947, c. 388, 61 Stat. 634; July 12, 1974, Pub.L. 93-
                344, Title V, Sec. 506(a), 88 Stat. 322.)
           280  Sec. 106. Printing bills and joint resolutions.
                    Every bill or joint resolution in each House of Congress
                shall, when such bill or resolution passes either House, be
                printed, and such printed copy shall be called the engrossed
                bill or resolution as the case may be. Said engrossed bill
                or resolution shall be signed by the Clerk of the House or
                the Secretary of the Senate, and shall be sent to the other
                House, and in that form shall be dealt with by that House
                and its officers, and, if passed, returned signed by said
                Clerk or Secretary. When such bill, or joint resolution
                shall have passed both Houses, it shall be printed and shall
                then be called the enrolled bill, or joint resolution, as
                the case may be, and shall be signed by the presiding
                officers of both Houses and sent to the President of the
                United States. During the last six days of a session such
                engrossing and enrolling of bills and joint resolutions may
                be done otherwise than as above prescribed, upon the order
                of Congress by concurrent resolution. (July 30, 1947, c.
                388, 61 Stat. 634.)
           281  Sec. 106a. Promulgation of laws.
                    Whenever a bill, order, resolution, or vote of the
                Senate and House of Representatives, having been approved by
                the President, or not having been returned by him with his
                objections, becomes a law or takes effect, it shall
                forthwith be received by the Archivist of the United States
                from the President; and whenever a bill, order, resolution,
                or vote is returned by the President with his objections,
                and, on being reconsidered, is agreed to be passed, and is
                approved by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and
                thereby becomes a law or takes effect, it shall be received
                by the Archivist of the United States from the President of
                the Senate, or Speaker of the House of Representatives in
                whichsoever House it shall last have been so approved, and
                he shall carefully preserve the originals. (Added Oct. 31,
                1951, c. 655, Sec. 2(b), 65 Stat. 710, and amended Oct. 19,
                1984, Pub.L. 98-497, Title I, Sec. 107(d), 98 Stat. 2291.)
           282  Sec. 106b. Amendments to Constitution.
                    Whenever official notice is received at the National
                Archives and Records Administration that any amendment
                proposed to the Constitution of the United States has been
                adopted, according to the provisions of the Constitution,
                the Archivist of the United States shall forthwith cause the
                amendment to be published, with his certificate, specifying
                the States by which the same may have been adopted, and that
                the same has become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a
                part of the Constitution of the United States. (Added Oct.
                31, 1951, c. 655, Sec. 2(b), 65 Stat. 710, and amended Oct.
                19, 1984, Pub.L. 98-497, Title I, Sec. 107(d), 98 Stat.
                2291.)

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           283  Sec. 107. Parchment or paper for printing enrolled bills or
                    resolutions.
                    Enrolled bills and resolutions of either House of
                Congress shall be printed on parchment or paper of suitable
                quality as shall be determined by the Joint Committee on
                Printing. (July 30, 1947, c. 388, 61 Stat. 635.)
           284  Sec. 108. Repeal of repealing act.
                    Whenever an Act is repealed, which repealed a former
                Act, such former Act shall not thereby be revived, unless it
                shall be expressly so provided. (July 30, 1947, c. 388, 61
                Stat. 635.)
           285  Sec. 109. Repeal of statutes as affecting existing
                    liabilities.
                    The repeal of any statute shall not have the effect to
                release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability
                incurred under such statute, unless the repealing Act shall
                so expressly provide, and such statute shall be treated as
                still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any
                proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such
                penalty, forfeiture, or liability. The expiration of a
                temporary statute shall not have the effect to release or
                extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred
                under such statute, unless the temporary statute shall so
                expressly provide, and, such statute shall be treated as
                still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any
                proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such
                penalty, forfeiture, or liability. (July 30, 1947, c. 388,
                61 Stat. 635.)
           286  Sec. 110. Saving clause of Revised Statutes.
                    All acts of limitation, whether applicable to civil
                causes and proceedings, or to the prosecution of offenses,
                or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures, embraced in
                the Revised Statutes and covered by the repeal contained
                therein, shall not be affected thereby, but all suits,
                proceedings, or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for
                causes arising, or acts done or committed prior to said
                repeal, may be commenced and prosecuted within the same time
                as if said repeal had not been made. (July 30, 1947, c. 388,
                61 Stat. 635.)
           287  Sec. 111. Repeals as evidence of prior effectiveness.
                    No inference shall be raised by the enactment of the Act
                of March 3, 1933 (ch. 202, 47 Stat. 1431), that the sections
                of the Revised Statutes repealed by such Act were in force
                or effect at the time of such enactment: Provided, however,
                That any rights or liabilities existing under such repealed
                sections shall not be affected by their repeal. (July 30,
                1947, c. 388, 61 Stat. 635.)
           288  Sec. 112. Statutes at large; contents; admissibility in
                    evidence.
                    The Archivist of the United States shall cause to be
                compiled, edited, indexed, and published, the United States
                Statutes at Large, which shall contain all the laws and
                concurrent resolutions enacted during each regular session
                of Congress; all proclamations by the President in the
                numbered series issued since the date of the adjournment of

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                the regular session of Congress next preceding; and also any
                amendments to the Constitution of the United States proposed
                or ratified pursuant to article V thereof since that date,
                together with the certificate of the Archivist of the United
                States issued in compliance with the provision contained in
                section 106b of this title. In the event of an extra session
                of Congress, the Archivist of the United States shall cause
                all the laws and concurrent resolutions enacted during said
                extra session to be consolidated with, and published as part
                of, the contents of the volume for the next regular session.
                The United States Statutes at Large shall be legal evidence
                of laws, concurrent resolutions, treaties, international
                agreements other than treaties, proclamations by the
                President, and proposed or ratified amendments to the
                Constitution of the United States therein contained, in all
                the courts of the United States, the several States, and the
                Territories and insular possessions of the United States.
                (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 636; Sept. 23, 1950, ch.
                1001, Sec. 1, 64 Stat. 979; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, Sec. 3,
                65 Stat. 710; Oct. 19, 1984, Pub.L. 98-497, Title I,
                Sec. 107(d), 98 Stat. 2291.)
           289  Sec. 112b. United States international agreements;
                    transmission to Congress.
                    (a) The Secretary of State shall transmit to the
                Congress the text of any international agreement (including
                the text of any oral international agreement, which
                agreement shall be reduced to writing), other than a treaty,
                to which the United States is a party as soon as practicable
                after such agreement has entered into force with respect to
                the United States but in no event later than sixty days
                thereafter. However, any such agreement the immediate public
                disclosure of which would, in the opinion of the President,
                be prejudicial to the national security of the United States
                shall not be so transmitted to the Congress but shall be
                transmitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
                Senate and the Committee on International Relations of the
                House of Representatives under an appropriate injunction of
                secrecy to be removed only upon due notice from the
                President. Any department or agency of the United States
                Government which enters into any international agreement on
                behalf of the United States shall transmit to the Department
                of State the text of such agreement not later than twenty
                days after such agreement has been signed.
                    (b) Not later than March 1, 1979, and at yearly
                intervals thereafter, the President shall, under his own
                signature, transmit to the Speaker of the House of
                Representatives and the chairman of the Committee on Foreign
                Relations of the Senate a report with respect to each
                international agreement which, during the preceding year,
                was transmitted to the Congress after the expiration of the
                60-day period referred to in the first sentence of
                subsection (a), describing fully and completely the reasons
                for the late transmittal.
                    (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an
                international agreement may not be signed or otherwise
                concluded on behalf of the United States without prior
                consultation with the Secretary of State. Such consultation
                may encompass a class of agreements rather than a particular
                agreement.
                    (d)(1) The Secretary of State shall annually submit to
                Congress a report that contains an index of all
                international agreements, listed by country, date, title,
                and summary of each such agreement (including

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                a description of the duration of activities under the
                agreement and the agreement itself), that the United
                States--
                                (A) has signed, proclaimed, or with
                            reference to which any other final formality has
                            been executed, or that has been extended or
                            otherwise modified, during the preceding
                            calendar year; and
                                (B) has not been published, or is not
                            proposed to be published, in the compilation
                            entitled ``United States Treaties and Other
                            International Agreements''.
                    (2) The report described in paragraph (1) may be
                submitted in classified form.
                    (e)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of State
                shall determine for and within the executive branch whether
                an arrangement constitutes an international agreement within
                the meaning of this section.
                    (2)(A) An arrangement shall constitute an international
                agreement within the meaning of this section (other than
                subsection (c)) irrespective of the duration of activities
                under the arrangement or the arrangement itself.
                    (B) Arrangements that constitute an international
                agreement within the meaning of this section (other than
                subsection (c)) include the following:
                                (i) A bilateral or multilateral
                            counterterrorism agreement.
                                (ii) A bilateral agreement with a country
                            that is subject to a determination under section
                            6(j)(1)(A) of the Export Administration Act of
                            1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)(A)), section
                            620A(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
                            (22 U.S.C. 2371(a)), or section 40(d) of the
                            Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2780(d)).
                    (f) The President shall, through the Secretary of State,
                promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to
                carry out this section. (Pub.L. 92-403, Sec. 1, Aug. 22,
                1972, 86 Stat. 619; Pub.L. 95-45, Sec. 5, June 15, 1977, 91
                Stat. 224; Pub.L. 95-426, Title VII, Sec. 708, Oct. 7, 1978,
                92 Stat. 993; Pub.L. 103-236, Sec. 138, Apr. 30, 1994, 108
                Stat. 397; Pub.L. 103-437, Sec. 1, Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat.
                4581; Pub.L. 108-458, Title VII, Sec. 7121(b) to (d), Dec.
                17, 2004, 118 Stat. 3807, 3808.)

                 Chapter 3.--CODE OF LAWS OF UNITED STATES AND SUPPLEMENTS;
                          DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CODE AND SUPPLEMENTS

           290  Sec. 211. Copies [of the Code of Laws] to Members of
                    Congress.
                    In addition to quotas provided for by section 210 of
                this title there shall be printed, published, and
                distributed of the Code of Laws relating to the District of
                Columbia with tables, index and other ancillaries, suitably
                bound and with thumb inserts and other convenient devices to
                distinguish the parts, and of the supplements to both codes
                as provided for by sections 202, 203 of this title, ten
                copies of each for each Member of the Senate and House of
                Representatives of the Congress in which the original
                authorized publication is made, for his use and
                distribution, and in addition for the Committee on the
                Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee
                on the Judiciary of the Senate a number of bound copies of
                each equal to ten times the number of members of such
                committees, and one bound copy of each for the use of each
                committee of the Senate and House of Representatives. (July
                30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.)

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           291  Sec. 212. Additional distribution at each new Congress.
                    In addition the Superintendent of Documents shall, at
                the beginning of the first session of each Congress, supply
                to each Senator and Representative in such Congress, who may
                in writing apply for the same, one copy each of the Code of
                Laws of the United States, the Code of Laws relating to the
                District of Columbia, and the latest supplement to each
                code: Provided, That such applicant shall certify in his
                written application for the same that the volume or volumes
                for which he applies is intended for his personal use
                exclusively: And provided further, That no Senator or
                Representative during his term of service shall receive
                under this section more than one copy each of the volumes
                enumerated herein. (July 30, 1947, Ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.)
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