---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 285a"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "285a"
heading: "Purpose and policy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/285a"
units:
  - "Chapter 9A — Office of Law Revision Counsel"
---

# §285a. Purpose and policy


The principal purpose of the Office shall be to develop and keep current an official and positive codification of the laws of the United States. The Office shall maintain impartiality as to issues of legislative policy to be determined by the House.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–554, title I, ch. III, § 101, Dec. 27, 1974, 88 Stat. 1777.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is based on section 205(b) of House Resolution No. 988, Ninety-third Congress, Oct. 8, 1974, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 93–554.