Readable Legislation Act of 2019

Readable Legislation Act of 2019

This bill requires every bill or joint resolution that amends an existing section of any Act to do so by setting forth the entire section and showing the omissions and insertions proposed by appropriate typographical devices. A measure may not revise or amend any section of an Act by a mere reference to it.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3402 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3402

  To amend chapter 2 of title 1, United States Code, to establish the 
                        style for amending laws.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2019

 Mr. Amash (for himself, Mr. Mooney of West Virginia, Mr. Meadows, Mr. 
Massie, Mr. Loudermilk, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Davidson of Ohio, 
  Mr. McClintock, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Norman, Mr. Cloud, Mr. Tonko, Ms. 
   Norton, 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 1, 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 2019''.

SEC. 2. AMENDING LAWS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 2 of title 1, 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.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning 
of chapter 2 of title 1, United States Code, is amended by adding after 
the item relating to section 114 the following new item:

``115. Amending laws.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by it shall take effect on January 
1, 2020.
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