---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 285a"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "285a"
heading: "Purpose and policy"
release: "119-102"
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](/usc/2/661a.md?p=10) 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.