---
kind: "section"
citation: "1 U.S.C. § 101"
title: "1"
title_heading: "General Provisions"
number: "101"
heading: "Enacting clause"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/1/101"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Acts and Resolutions; Formalities of Enactment; Repeals; Sealing of Instruments"
---

# §101. Enacting clause


The enacting clause of all Acts of Congress shall be in the following form: “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.”


## Source credit

(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)