{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2/s285a","title_num":"2","num":"§ 285a.","heading":"Purpose and policy","status":null,"guid":"idd1c01bd1-7dda-11e7-999a-a10f27f1d75c","source_credit":"(Pub. L. 93–554, title I, ch. III, § 101, Dec. 27, 1974, 88 Stat. 1777.)","seq_in_title":656,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t2/ch9A","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2","level":"title","num":"Title 2—","heading":"THE CONGRESS","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2/ch9A","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 9A—","heading":"OFFICE OF LAW REVISION COUNSEL","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id5d25a52b-ec38-11e5-89e9-afe61b29b17d\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t2/s285a\"><num value=\"285a\">§ 285a.</num><heading> Purpose and policy</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">The principal purpose of the Office shall be to develop and keep current an official and positive codification of the laws of the United States. The Office shall maintain impartiality as to issues of legislative policy to be determined by the House.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id5d25a52c-ec38-11e5-89e9-afe61b29b17d\">(<ref href=\"/us/pl/93/554/tI\">Pub. L. 93–554, title I</ref>, ch. III, § 101, <date date=\"1974-12-27\">Dec. 27, 1974</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/88/1777\">88 Stat. 1777</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id5d25a52d-ec38-11e5-89e9-afe61b29b17d\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I76\" topic=\"codification\" id=\"id5d25a52e-ec38-11e5-89e9-afe61b29b17d\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Codification</heading>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Section is based on section 205(b) of House Resolution No. 988, Ninety-third Congress, <date date=\"1974-10-08\">Oct. 8, 1974</date>, which was enacted into permanent law by <ref href=\"/us/pl/93/554\">Pub. L. 93–554</ref>.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"115-45","currency_date":"2017-08-04","congress":115,"law_num":45,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":106,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11","11a","12","13","14","17","18a","22","31","33","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"115-45","currency_date":"2017-08-04","congress":115,"law_num":45,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":106,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11","11a","12","13","14","17","18a","22","31","33","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"114-115","currency_date":"2015-12-28","congress":114,"law_num":115,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":62,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","07","08","10","15","20","21","23","25","26","29","31","40","42","47","49","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}