To make technical amendments to update statutory references to provisions reclassified to title 34, United States Code, and to correct related technical errors.
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Would make purely technical corrections across dozens of federal statutes, replacing obsolete cross-references that still point to crime and law enforcement provisions formerly codified in Title 42 of the U.S. Code with their correct new locations in Title 34, which Congress created as a dedicated title for crime control and law enforcement law.
What this bill would do
What it would do
The bill would update statutory cross-references in 19 titles of the U.S. Code — from Title 2 through Title 50 — wherever a provision still cites the old Title 42 location of a crime and law enforcement statute that was reclassified into the newer Title 34 (Crime Control and Law Enforcement). It would also correct related technical errors: wrong section numbers, typographical mistakes, mislabeled subsection designations, and garbled statutory names.
The bill would make no substantive change to any law's requirements, rights, prohibitions, or benefits. Every amendment is a citation or typographical fix intended to keep the U.S. Code internally consistent and accurately navigable after the earlier reclassification of crime-related provisions from Title 42 to Title 34.
Key provisions
- 1Would update Title 42 cross-references to Title 34 across statutes in Titles 2, 6, 8, 10, 12, 18, 20, 22, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 33, 35, 40, 42, 49, and 50 of the U.S. Code.
- 2Would correct technical errors in Title 34 itself, including wrong section numbers, mislabeled subsection designations, and garbled statutory names across more than 100 provisions.
- 3Would fix a typographical error in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, correcting a subsection designation from '(A)' to '(a)' in section 502.
- 4Would correct cross-references in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 relating to public safety officer death benefits and sex offender definitions, replacing obsolete Title 42 citations.
Who would be affected
Legal practitioners, federal agency lawyers, courts, congressional staff, and researchers who cite or rely on the U.S. Code — particularly those working with crime, law enforcement, victims' rights, sex offender registration, DNA analysis, juvenile justice, or domestic violence statutes that were moved from Title 42 to Title 34.
Why it matters
Outdated cross-references create navigational confusion and risk of error when lawyers, courts, and agencies try to locate a provision: a citation pointing to a repealed or relocated Title 42 section may lead nowhere or to the wrong law. Correcting these citations keeps the Code internally consistent and reduces the chance that a live statutory obligation is misidentified or overlooked.
What would change
Changes to existing law
Amends Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Sec. 15)
Updates numerous internal cross-references from obsolete Title 42 citations to correct Title 34 locations; corrects subsection labels and section number errors.
Amends Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (Sec. 15)
Replaces outdated Title 42 cross-references throughout the Act with correct Title 34 citations for reclassified provisions.
Amends Immigration and Nationality Act (Sec. 3)
Updates references to Violence Against Women Act definitions and sex offender registration provisions from Title 42 to Title 34.
Amends Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Sec. 10)
Replaces Title 42 citations for public safety officer benefit and sex offender definition provisions with correct Title 34 citations.
Amends Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (Sec. 15)
Inserts and corrects Title 34 citation references throughout provisions that previously cited Title 42 locations.
Amends Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (Sec. 12)
Replaces obsolete Title 42 cross-references for domestic violence definitions and reentry program provisions with Title 34 citations.
Amends Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (Sec. 15)
Updates multiple cross-references from Title 42 to Title 34 throughout its provisions and related acts.
Funding and costs
Congressional Budget Office estimate
CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 4499 would have no effect on the federal budget.
CBO estimates that H.R. 4499 would have no effect on direct spending, revenues, or the deficit in any scoring period, including the 2026–2035 window. Because the bill only updates statutory references, corrects errors, and makes other nonsubstantive changes to existing law, CBO concludes it carries no budgetary impact. The bill contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates, and statutory pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.
Legislative status & sources
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This bill makes technical amendments to the U.S. Code to revise references to statutory provisions reclassified to Title 34 (Crime Control and Law Enforcement).
Legislative subjects
Congressional operations and organization; Crime and Law Enforcement