legislation

Point in time legislative systems allow the user to retrieve legislation as it existed (or will exist) at some time in the past or future.  They are often built out from legislative drafting and promulgation systems that conceive legislative document management as a continuous process that extends from drafting by legislative staff to publishing.  Creation of such systems thus typically involves a certain amount of process reengineering directed at the management of legislative documents.  Such systems can recover their costs by reducing the transfer costs inherent in the mov

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Government sites

• US House of Representatives Law Revision Counsel's Office (also leads to Classification Tables)
  
• US Government Printing Office

Updating

• Article by Sally Kelley on manual updating of Code (1998, rev. 2001, rev. by D. Shetland 2007) 

Other useful explanations

The United States Code section number
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