What changed between these versions
A minor adjustment within the existing scope. v3 primarily refines the conforming and clerical amendments in Section 7, broadening the scope of a textual strike instruction and adding more comprehensive updates to the tables of contents to ensure consistency with the bill's renumbering of sections. No changes were made to the core policy provisions regarding sexual harassment and assault prevention.
Overview
A handful of changes, primarily concentrated within a single section. · The overall direction is one of refinement and clarification of the bill's structural and referencing updates, ensuring more comprehensive consistency.
The primary changes in v3 are found in Section 7, which addresses conforming and clerical amendments. Specifically, v3 broadens the scope of an instruction to strike the phrase "National Oceanic and Atmospheric" by removing previous exceptions. Additionally, the clerical amendment section was restructured and expanded to include more comprehensive updates to the tables of contents, ensuring that all renumbered and newly inserted sections are properly reflected. The substantive policy provisions of the bill remain unchanged between v2 and v3.
Major additions
This new subsection adds an instruction to amend the table of contents at the beginning of Title XXXV of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. It specifically directs the insertion of entries for sections 3546 and 3547, along with the previously covered sections 3548 through 3552, into this table of contents.
This addition ensures that the table of contents for Title XXXV is fully updated to reflect the complete sequence of sections, including those not directly renumbered by H.R. 2406 but part of the overall structure being modified. It improves the accuracy and completeness of the statutory references.
Modifications
If applied literally, this change would lead to the removal of "National Oceanic and Atmospheric" from the Act's short title and the definition of "Administration" in the underlying law, potentially altering how the Act and the Administration are referenced. However, the printed text of v3 itself does not apply this literally to its own short title or the definition of "Administration", suggesting a nuanced interpretation or a drafting inconsistency. The immediate operative impact is on the instruction for legislative drafting.
Before
In v2, this provision instructed to strike "National Oceanic and Atmospheric" from the underlying law, with explicit exceptions for its appearance in the short title of the Act, the heading of section 3551, and the definition in section 3552(1).
After
In v3, this provision now instructs to strike "National Oceanic and Atmospheric" each place it appears, removing all the exceptions previously specified in v2.
This modification clarifies and expands the instructions for updating the various tables of contents, ensuring a more precise and comprehensive alignment of the statutory references with the renumbering and insertion of new sections within the bill. It improves the organizational clarity of the underlying law's structure.
Before
In v2, this subsection was titled "Clerical Amendment" and contained a single instruction to amend "Each of the tables of contents in section 2(b) and at the beginning of title XXXV" by striking and inserting specific items related to sections 3548 through 3552.
After
In v3, this subsection is retitled "Clerical Amendments" and is restructured into two distinct paragraphs. Paragraph (1) addresses the "Global table of contents" in section 2(b), with the same instruction as v2 regarding sections 3548-3552. Paragraph (2) is a new instruction for the "Title XXXV table of contents", which includes striking and inserting items for sections 3546 through 3552.
This is a minor stylistic change to the section heading as it appears in the tables of contents. It does not alter the substance or meaning of the section itself, but rather refines its presentation in the statutory index.
Before
In the list of sections to be inserted into the tables of contents, the heading for section 3551 was specified as "Annual report on sexual harassment, sexual assault, and equal employment in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."
After
In the list of sections to be inserted into the tables of contents, the heading for section 3551 is now specified as "Annual report on sexual harassment, sexual assault, and equal employment in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."
Scope
Minor adjustment within existing scope — Changes are concentrated in Section 7, which deals with conforming and clerical amendments, rather than being scattered throughout the core policy provisions of the bill. — v3 represents a refinement within the same policy direction as v2. The changes are primarily structural and clerical, aimed at improving the accuracy and consistency of statutory references and tables of contents, without altering the substantive policy on sexual harassment and assault prevention. — The changes primarily interact with the structural and referencing provisions of the underlying National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, ensuring that the tables of contents and general references are accurately updated to reflect the new and renumbered sections introduced by H.R. 2406.
Impact analysis
Legislative drafters and legal researchers
Procedural clarity and completeness.
The instructions for conforming amendments are more broadly defined in Section 7(a)(2), and the clerical amendment instructions in Section 7(b) are more detailed and comprehensive, covering additional sections for table of contents updates.