The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) releases an initial set of 40 Statute Compilations as a pilot on govinfo,
GPO’s website that offers public access to Federal Government
information. These publications are compilations of public laws that
either do not appear in the U.S. Code or that have been classified to a
title of the U.S. Code that has not been enacted into positive law. Each
Statute Compilation incorporates the amendments made to the underlying
statute since it was originally enacted.
GPO is partnering with various Congressional offices on this project,
including the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the U.S. House of
Representatives, the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the U.S.
Senate, the Clerk of the House, and the Secretary of the Senate.
Additional Statute Compilations will be added to govinfo
over the next several months. The next phase of this project will be to
convert legacy Statute Compilations file formats into United States
Legislative Markup (USLM) XML and provide access to those files as bulk
data.
“The release of Statute Compilations on govinfo now
gives the public easy access to these documents on smartphones, tablets,
laptops and personal computers,” said GPO Acting Deputy Director
Herbert H. Jackson, Jr. “This is another example of how GPO is working
with Congress to provide digital access to the workings on the three
branches of the Federal Government.”
