---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 301"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "301"
heading: "Automatic execution of conforming changes"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/301"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — General"
  - "Chapter 3 — Automatic Execution of Conforming Changes"
---

# §301. Automatic execution of conforming changes

- (a) **In General.—** When an amendment to a [covered maritime law](#c) adds a section or larger organizational unit to the [covered maritime law](#c), repeals or transfers a section or larger organizational unit in the [covered maritime law](#c), or amends the designation or heading of a section or larger organizational unit in the [covered maritime law](#c), that amendment also shall have the effect of amending any analysis, table of contents, or similar tabular entries in the [covered maritime law](#c) to alter the table to conform to the changes made by the amendment.
- (b) **Exceptions.—** [Subsection (a)](#a) shall not apply to an amendment described in such subsection when—
  - (1) the amendment or a clerical amendment enacted at the same time expressly amends a table of sections, table of contents, or similar tabular entries in the [covered maritime law](#c) to alter the table to conform to the changes made by the amendment; or
  - (2) the amendment otherwise expressly exempts itself from the operation of this section.
- (c) **Covered Maritime Law Defined.—** In this section, the term “covered maritime law” means—
  - (1) this title;
  - (2) any Maritime Administration authorization Act that authorizes funds to be appropriated for a fiscal year to the Maritime Administration; and
  - (3) any other law designated in the text thereof as a [covered maritime law](#c) for purposes of application of this section.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. G, § 7103(b), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1662.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 301 was renumbered section 46101 of this title.