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Public Law Titles

Jones, Bryan D., Frank R. Baumgartner, Sean M. Theriault, Derek A. Epp, Cheyenne Lee, Miranda E. Sullivan

April 2025

This dataset contains information about titles within public laws.

Beginning in the 1960s, Congress often divided longer laws into subsections, which addressed discrete topic areas. Congress called these subsections, “titles.” A single public law may contain no titles, or several titles that span multiple topic areas.