1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Statutes at Large Modernization Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The United States was established under a government of laws, and not of men . (2) The rule of law requires that the laws be available to the people. (3) Active, permanent laws are codified in the United States Code, which is maintained by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel at http://uscode.house.gov/. (4) The United States Code usually does not include, however, repealed laws, original statutes that have since been amended, or those with limited duration such as appropriations acts. Furthermore, uncodified titles of the United States Code are merely evidence of the law before the judicial branch, so attorneys must consult the United States Statutes at Large. (5) The United States Statutes at Large is compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration. It is legal and permanent evidence of all the laws enacted during a session of Congress beginning with the First Congress in 1789. It also contains concurrent resolutions, reorganization plans, proposed and ratified amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and proclamations by the President. (6) The Statutes at Large collection is published under the direction of the Office of the Federal Register through the Congressional Printing Management Division of the Government Publishing Office. (7) The Law Library of Congress has begun to digitize the Statutes at Large. It has published all volumes in a text-over-PDF format. They appear as scanned PDF images with basic search capability. (8) More resources are needed to adequately refine and structure the embedded data elements that enable advanced search functions, machine readability, and other useful options. (9) The Government Publishing Office is the appropriate entity to lead the online digitization of the Statutes at Large in collaboration with other Federal and private entities with expertise in developing formatting conventions for legislative materials. (10)