chair the committee, an officer of the Department of Jus-
tice designated by the Attorney General, and the Director 
of the Government Publishing Office or Acting Director 
of the Government Publishing Office. The Director of the 
Federal Register shall act as secretary of the committee. 
The committee shall prescribe, with the approval of the 
President or their designee, regulations for carrying out 
this chapter. The regulations shall provide for, among 
other things, the following: 
‘‘(1) The documents which shall be authorized 
under section 1505(b) to be published in the Federal 
Register. 
‘‘(2) The manner and form in which the Fed-
eral Register shall be published. 
‘‘(3) The manner and form in which agencies 
submit documents for publication in the Federal 
Register and special editions of the Federal Reg-
ister. 
‘‘(4) Subject to subsection (b), the manner of 
distribution to Members of Congress, officers and 
employees of the United States, or Federal agency, 
for official use, and the number which shall be avail-
able for distribution to the public.
‘‘(5) The prices to be charged for individual 
copies of, and subscriptions to, the Federal Register 
and any reprints and bound volumes of it. 
‘‘(6) The manner and form by which the Fed-
eral Register may receive information and comments 
from the public, if practicable and efficient. 
‘‘(7) Special editions of the Federal Register.’’. 
(g) CODE
OF
FEDERAL
REGULATIONS
AMEND-
MENT.—Section 1510 of title 44, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘§ 1510. Code of Federal Regulations 
‘‘(a) SPECIAL EDITION FOR CODIFICATION OF AGEN-
CY DOCUMENTS.—The Administrative Committee of the 
Federal Register, with the approval of the President or 
their designee, may require, from time to time as it con-
siders necessary, the preparation and publication in a spe-
cial edition of the Federal Register a complete codification 
of the documents of each agency of the Government hav-
ing general applicability and legal effect, issued or promul-
gated by the agency by publication in the Federal Register 
or by filing with the Administrative Committee, and which 
are relied upon by the agency as authority for, or are in-
voked or used by it in the discharge of, its activities or 
functions, and are in effect as to facts arising on or after 
dates specified by the Administrative Committee.
‘‘(b) CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS.—A codifica-
tion prepared under subsection (a) of this section shall be 
published and shall be designated as the ‘Code of Federal 
Regulations’. The Administrative Committee shall regu-
late the manner and forms of publishing this codification. 
‘‘(c) SUPPLEMENTATION, COLLATION, AND REPUBLI-
CATION.—The Administrative Committee shall regulate 
the supplementation and the collation and republication 
of the codification with a view to keeping the Code of Fed-
eral Regulations as current as practicable. Each unit of 
codification shall be supplemented and republished at least 
once each calendar year. The Office of the Federal Reg-
ister may create updates of each unit of codification from 
time to time and make the same available electronically 
or may provide public access using an electronic edition 
that allows a user to select a specific date and retrieve 
the version of the codification in effect as of that date. 
‘‘(d) PREPARATION AND PUBLICATION BY THE FED-
ERAL REGISTER.—The Office of the Federal Register 
shall prepare and publish the codifications, supplements, 
collations, indices, and user aids authorized by this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(e) PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE.—The codified docu-
ments of the several agencies published in the Code of 
Federal Regulations under this section, as amended by
documents subsequently filed with the Office and pub-
lished in the daily issues of the Federal Register, shall 
be prima facie evidence of the text of the documents and 
of the fact that they are in effect on and after the date 
of publication. 
‘‘(f) REGULATIONS.—The Administrative Committee, 
with approval of the President or their designee, shall 
issue regulations for carrying out this section. 
‘‘(g) EXCEPTION.—This section does not require 
codification of the text of Presidential documents pub-
lished and periodically compiled in supplements to title 3 
of the Code of Federal Regulations.’’. 
(h) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
The table of sections for chapter 15 of title 44, United 
States Code, is amended by striking the items related to 
sections 1502, 1503, and 1504 and inserting the following: 
‘‘1502. Custody and publishing of Federal documents; appointment of Director. 
‘‘1503. Filing documents with Office; notation of time; public inspection; trans-
mission for publishing. 
‘‘1504. ‘Federal Register’; publishing; contents; distribution; price; physical cop-
ies.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives November 12, 
2024. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9592 
AN ACT 
To amend title 44, United States Code, to mod-
ernize the Federal Register, and for other pur-
poses.