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B-196398 1 (1982-02-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobachim0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WAHiNGTON D.C. .ad 5I17 Y \February 18, 1982 B-196398 The Honorable Peter W. Rodino Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This is in response to your request for comments on H.R. 4774, 97th Congress, 1st Session, a bill which, if enacted, would revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general and permanent laws related to money and finance, as Title 31, United States Code, Money and Finance. We welcome the efforts of the revisers to standardize and update the language of many ancient and arcane statutes and to eliminate laws which have become obsolete with the passage of time or superseded by later enactments. In- evitably, however, in a revision of so vast a scope, errors of omission or commission creep in and inadvertently change the substantive law. For many months, my staff has worked with the revisers on an informal basis, explaining our concerns and proposing changes or modifications. Many of these have been accepted and we are very gratified. There is still a residuum of problems which we have addressed in the enclosed comments on specific provisions of the bill, accompanied by some recommended language changes. A few of the recommended changes are extremely important to us, because without them, a great many Comptroller General legal decisions which rely on provisions of existing law now proposed to be omitted will be undermined. For an example in this category, see our discussion of proposed section 1702, and its effect on the bona fide needs rule. There are some other sections in which the coverage of existing law is inexplicably narrowed. For example, the District of Columbia is excluded by the terms of the proposed code from the application of certain provisions of law which currently apply to it. On the other hand, the proposed code still lists the Federal Housing Administration as a wholly owned Government corpora- tion even though it has not been a separate organizational entity since 1965. These types of changes are grouped together in Part I of our comments (without regard to the order of presentation in the bill). We urge you to give serious consideration to the adoption of all the recommendations in this category.

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