A joint resolution authorizing the hand enrollment of appropriations bills for fiscal year 1989 and authorizing the subsequent, post-enactment preparation of printed enrollments of those bills.
PL 100-454 (H.J.Res.665), enacted 09/29/1988

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PUBLIC LAW 100-454—SEPT. 29, 1988 
Public Law 100-454 
100th Congress 
Joint Resolution 
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Authorizing the hand enrollment of appropriations bills for fiscal year 1989 and 
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authorizing the subsequent, post-enactment preparation of printed enrollments of 
[H.J. Res. 665] 
those bills. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, 
1 u s e 106 note. 
SECTION 1. HAND ENROLLMP]NT AUTHORIZED FOR GENERAL APFROl'RIA-
TIONS BILLS. 
(a) WAIVER OF CERTAIN LAWS WITH RESPECT TO PRINTING OF 
ENROLLED BILLS.—During the remainder of the second session of the 
One Hundredth Congress, the provisions of sections 106 and 107 of 
title 1, United States Code, are waived with respect to the printing 
(on parchment or otherwise) of the enrollment of any general appro-
priations bill making appropriations for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1989. 
(b) CERTIFICATION BY COMMITTEE ON HOUSE ADMINISTRATION.—The 
enrollment of any such bill shall be in such form as the Committee 
on House Administration of the House of Representatives certifies 
to be a true enrollment. 
1 u s e 106 note. 
SEC. 2. SUBSEQUENT PREPARATION AND CERTIFICATION OF PRINTED 
ENROLLMENTS. 
(a) PREPARATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Upon the enactment of a bill following 
presentment of such bill to the President in the form of a hand 
enrollment pursuant to the authority of section 1 of this resolu-
tion, the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall prepare a 
printed enrollment of that bill as in the case of a bill to which 
sections 106 and 107 of title 1, United States Code, apply. 
(2) LIMITED STYLISTIC CORRECTIONS.—A printed enrollment pre-
pared pursuant to paragraph (1) may, in order to conform to 
customary style for printed laws, include corrections in spelling, 
punctuation, indentation, type face, and type size and other 
necessary stylistic corrections to the hand enrollment. Such a 
printed enrollment shall include notations (in the margins or as 
otherwise appropriate) of all such corrections. 
(b) TRANSMITTAL TO PRESIDENT.—A printed enrollment prepared 
pursuant to subsection (a) shall be signed by the presiding officer of 
each House of Congress as a correct printing of the hand enrollment 
and shall be transmitted to the President. 
(c) CERTIFICATION BY PRESIDENT; LEGAL EFFECT.—Upon certifi-
cation by the President that a printed enrollment transmitted 
pursuant to subsection (b) is a correct printing of the hand enroll-
ment, such printed enrollment shall be considered for all purposes 
as the original enrollment of the bill concerned and as valid evi-
dence of the enactment of that bill. 
Historic 
(d) ARCHIVES.—A printed enrollment certified by the President 
preservation. 
under subsection (c) shall be transmitted to the Archivist of the 
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United States, who shall preserve it with the hand enrollment. In 
preparing the bill concerned for publication in slip form and in the 
United States Statutes at Large pursuant to section 112 of title 1, 
United States Code, the Archivist of the United States shall use the 
printed enrollment certified by the President under subsection (c) in 
lieu of the hand enrollment. 
(e) HAND ENROLLMENT DEFINED.—As used in this section, the term 
"hand enrollment" means the enrollment, as authorized by section 
1, of a bill for presentment to the President in a form other than the 
printed form required by sections 106 and 107 of title 1, United 
States Code. 
Approved September 29, 1988. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.J. Res. 665: 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 134 (1988): 
Sept. 28, considered and passed House and Senate.