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[H.R. 5961 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
H.R.5961
One Hundred Seventeenth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-two
An Act
To make revisions in title 5, United States Code, as necessary to keep
the title current, and to make technical amendments to improve the
United States Code.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

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The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

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EXISTING LAW.
(a) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are--
(1) to make revisions in title 5, United States Code, as
necessary to keep the title current; and
(2) to make technical amendments to improve the United States
Code.
(b) Restatement Does Not Change Meaning or Effect of Existing
Law.--
(1) In general.--The restatement of existing law enacted by
this Act does not change the meaning or effect of the existing law.
The restatement incorporates in title 5, United States Code,
various provisions that were enacted separately over a period of
years, reorganizing them, conforming style and terminology,
modernizing obsolete language, and correcting drafting errors.
These changes serve to remove ambiguities, contradictions, and
other imperfections, but they do not change the meaning or effect
of the existing law or impair the precedential value of earlier
judicial decisions or other interpretations.
(2) Rule of construction.--
(A) In general.--Notwithstanding the plain meaning rule or
other rules of statutory construction, a change in wording made
in the restatement of existing law enacted by this Act serves
to clarify the existing law as indicated in paragraph (1), but
not to change the meaning or effect of the existing law.
(B) Revision notes.--Subparagraph (A) applies whether or
not a change in wording is explained by a revision note
appearing in a congressional report accompanying this Act. If
such a revision note does appear, a court shall consider the
revision note in interpreting the change.

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To make revisions in title 5, United States Code, as necessary to keep the title current, and to make technical amendments to improve the United States Code.

To make revisions in title 5, United States Code, as necessary to keep the title current, and to make technical amendments to improve the United States Code. — HR. 5961

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