HR5210-119

What This Bill Does

This bill is a technical corrections package for titles 2, 50, and 52 of the United States Code and related cross-references in other titles. It updates obsolete or recodified citations in the Ethics in Government Act, Congressional Budget Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, foreign affairs provisions, money and finance provisions, energy and data-mining provisions, National Security Act provisions, Hatch Act provisions, federal tax provisions for political organizations, and federal voting and campaign-finance statutes.

The bill does not create a new benefit program or regulatory regime. Its main legal effect is reference cleanup: statutory users should be directed to current Code sections for congressional ethics, budget enforcement, intelligence authorities, national security offices, political-committee rules, election-administration statutes, and campaign-finance laws. That matters because incorrect citations can make legal research, agency guidance, forms, compliance manuals, and court filings harder to use.

Who Benefits and How

The Office of the Law Revision Counsel benefits because the Code becomes cleaner after prior title 2, title 50, and title 52 codifications. Congressional drafting staff benefit from corrected cross-references when preparing future bills and amendments. Election administrators benefit from updated references in title 52 voting and campaign-finance provisions. Intelligence Community legal offices benefit from current references to title 50 and National Security Act authorities. Agency counsel at Treasury, State, Energy, and financial regulatory agencies benefit from corrected references in statutes they administer. Legal publishers and compliance lawyers benefit from fewer obsolete citations.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Agency legal offices must update guidance, manuals, internal crosswalks, forms, and web materials that still cite obsolete sections. Congressional drafting staff must verify that the technical corrections do not alter substantive law. Legal publishers must revise annotations and statutory compilations. Election-law compliance lawyers must check political-committee, voting-rights, and campaign-finance references against the corrected Code sections. Intelligence oversight staff must update reference materials tied to the National Security Act and title 50 provisions.

Key Provisions

• Amends title 2 cross-references in congressional ethics, budget, and related government provisions.
• Amends title 15, title 22, title 31, and title 42 references tied to national security and intelligence laws.
• Updates title 50 and National Security Act technical references for intelligence authorities.
• Amends Hatch Act and Federal Election Campaign Act cross-references for multicandidate political committees.
• Updates title 26 political-organization references tied to federal campaign-finance law.
• Amends title 52 voting, election-administration, and campaign-finance references.