Making laws
public law
What a bill becomes when enacted, numbered by Congress and order of enactment: Public Law 119-4 is the 4th law of the 119th Congress.
In full
An enacted bill is assigned a public law number, published first as a standalone 'slip law', then in the United States Statutes at Large, and finally woven into the United States Code, the subject-organized compilation of general and permanent federal law.
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