Fonts indicate changes made to bills and resolutions as they
pass through the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Text Type
|
Text Description
|
| Normal text |
Unchanged text of the original bill |
| Italic text |
New material proposed by the
author of the bill |
| Boldface text |
New material added by a House Committee |
| [Boldface text,
in brackets.] |
New material added by a House
Committee of the Whole amendment |
| Boldface Italic text |
New material added by a Senate Committee |
| [Boldface Italic,
in brackets.] |
New material added by a Senate
Committee of the Whole amendment |
Striken text |
Indicates text deleted from the bill by the
house of origin and corresponds to striken text in the printed
version of the bill |
Stricken
text using the typewriter font |
Indicates text deleted from the bill by the other house
(not the house of origin) and corresponds text printed in
the double-strike font in the printed version of the bill
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