What is United States Statutes at Large?
The '''''United States Statutes at Large''''', commonly referred to as the '''''Statutes at Large''''' and [[Abbreviation|abbreviated]] '''Stat.''', is the official record of [[Act of Congress|Acts of Congress]] and [[concurrent resolutions]] passed by the [[United States Congress]]. Each act and resolution of Congress is called a [[slip law]], which is classified as either [[Public bill|public law]] (abbreviated Pub.L.) or [[Private bill|private law]] (Pvt.L.), and designated and numbered accordingly. At the end of a Congress session, slip laws (now commonly called session laws) are compiled into ''Statutes at Large'', which are numbered and organised by Congress session.<ref>{{citation | title= Public and Private Laws: About | publisher= United States Government Printing Office | url= http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plaws/about.html | quote= At the end of each session of Congress, the slip laws are compiled into bound volumes called the Statutes at Large, and they are known as 'session laws.' | access-date= 2009-11-20 | archive-date= 2010-01-05 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100105231122/http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plaws/about.html | url-status= dead }}</ref> They are part of a three-part model for [[publication]] of [[Statute|federal statute]]s consisting of slip laws, session laws (''Statutes at Large''), and [[Codification (law)|codification]] (''United States Code''). == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:United States law]] {{politics-stub}}