1 U.S.C. § 203 — District of Columbia Code; preparation and publication; cumulative supplements

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The House Judiciary Committee can print bills to organize and update D.C.'s general laws. These bills, and their updates, should look like the U.S. Code. The Committee can keep doing this until Congress passes the final law.

The House Judiciary Committee is allowed to print bills that organize, revise, and re-pass the general, permanent laws about the District of Columbia — plus ongoing updates to them. These bills and updates should look similar in style to the Code of Laws of the United States and its own updates. The Committee can keep doing this work until both the House and the Senate finally pass the bills into law.

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The Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives is authorized to print bills to codify, revise, and reenact the general and permanent laws relating to the District of Columbia and cumulative supplements thereto, similar in style, respectively, to the Code of Laws of the United States, and supplements thereto, and to so continue until final enactment thereof in both Houses of the Congress of the United States.

Source credit: (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 638.)

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1947Enacted · Act of July 30, 1947, ch. 388 · 61 Stat. 638

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