Title 1 — General Provisions
Chapter 2 — Acts and Resolutions; Formalities of Enactment; Repeals; Sealing of Instruments
§ 101. Enacting clause
Statutory text
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.”
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
1 U. S. C., § —
Pub. L. 80–388 · 61 Stat. 633
Enacted · 1 U.S.C. § 101
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)
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Credits
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)