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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · H.R. 5961 (Engrossed in House) — To make revisions in title 5, United States Code, as necessary to keep the title current, and to make technical amend... · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Purposes; restatement does not change meaning or effect of existing law

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The purposes of this Act are— 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. 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. 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.
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(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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