                          TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
 
               CHAPTER 9A--OFFICE OF LAW REVISION COUNSEL
 
Sec. 285a. Purpose and policy

    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.

(Pub. L. 93-554, title I, ch. III, Sec. 101, Dec. 27, 1974, 88 Stat. 
1777.)

                          Codification

    Section is based on section 205(b) of House Resolution No. 988, 
Ninety-third Congress, Oct. 8, 1974, which was enacted into permanent 
law by Pub. L. 93-554.
