Reading a Federal Legislative Impact result

To see how to read a Federal Legislative Impact result, we'll examine a Legislative Impact report for the Patriot Act.

You can quickly jump to a section of interest by clicking on a topic.

1.  AMENDMENTS THIS LAW MADE TO EXISTING FEDERAL LEGISLATION takes you to Acts for non-positive law titles, or to the US Code for positive law titles.  See Positive Law Titles for a description of positive and non-positive law.

2.  SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS TO THIS LAW SINCE ENACTMENT shows the Public Laws that impact the Patriot Act since the Patriot Act was enacted that have an impact on the Patriot Act.

Note - Legislative Impact "understands" that "P.L. 107-56," "USA Patriot Act" and "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001," all refer to the same law.

3.  AMENDMENTS IN BILLS FROM THE 110TH CONGRESS shows the impact on the Patriot Act by bills and resolutions from the current Congress.

4.  Expanding one of the selections shows a table to determine the specific impact to the selected law.  

Note - the hot links take you to the desired documents.  Links to sections will take you directly to the affected section.