Sponsor
Mark Harris
Representative · R-NC
Representative · R-NC
This bill mostly cleans up and modernizes statutory citations and program language—reducing legal ambiguity for many government programs and vulnerable populations—but the wide use of unspecified replacements and cross‑reference edits creates short‑term legal uncertainty, administrative costs, and the risk of inadvertent changes to eligibility or authorities without new funding.
Federal agencies, state/local governments, courts, and program administrators will have many statutory citations and cross‑references corrected or modernized, reducing legal ambiguity and making it easier to determine which laws apply.
Survivors, victims (including trafficking victims), and service providers will see clearer statutory language that can improve access to protections and coordination of services.
Jobseekers, youth, low‑income students, and program operators will benefit from updated workforce, education, and child‑welfare cross‑references that clarify program eligibility, enrollment, and service delivery (WIOA, Job Corps, CAPTA, school nutrition, disaster response).
Recipients, agencies, courts, and the public face legal uncertainty because many provisions are implemented via unspecified "strike and insert" or replaced text, which can produce ambiguity about substantive effect until final language or guidance is available.
State and local governments, schools, nonprofits, and service providers will incur administrative, compliance, and transitional costs to revise policies, forms, IT systems, and training to reflect numerous statutory edits.
Vulnerable individuals (sexual‑assault survivors, low‑income students, youth, applicants to social programs) risk reduced or delayed access if revised definitions or cross‑references narrow eligibility or change priority rules.
Based on analysis of 20 sections of legislative text.
Updates cross‑references, replaces definitions, and revises quoted statutory language across many U.S. Code titles affecting tax, justice, workforce, education, immigration, tribal, and other laws.
Official title: To make technical amendments to update statutory references to provisions reclassified to title 34, United States Code, and to correct related technical errors.
Introduced July 17, 2025 by Mark Harris · Last progress September 14, 2026
Makes numerous targeted amendments across the U.S. Code and several public laws to update cross‑references, replace or revise defined terms, and alter quoted statutory language in many subject areas including the tax code, criminal justice, workforce programs (WIOA), education, immigration, patent fees, tribal programs, and victim/trafficking statutes. Some edits are clerical and citation updates; others replace whole definitions or paragraphs and therefore change legal scope. Effects are mixture of technical corrections (modernizing citations, subsection labels, punctuation) and substantive replacements (revised definitions, substituted paragraphs, new insertions in eligibility or program text) that affect federal statutory language used by agencies, courts, grantees, and beneficiaries across multiple programs and legal areas.