Editing United States Code (section)

===Uncodified statutes===
Only "general and permanent" laws are codified in the United States Code; the Code does not usually include provisions that apply only to a limited number of people (a [[statutory law|private law]]) or for a limited time, such as most [[appropriation (law)|appropriation]] acts or [[budget]] laws, which apply only for a single [[fiscal year]]. If these limited provisions are significant, however, they may be printed as "notes" underneath related sections of the Code. The codification is based on the content of the laws, however, not the vehicle by which they are adopted; so, for instance, if an appropriations act contains substantive, permanent provisions (as is sometimes the case), these provisions will be incorporated into the Code even though they were adopted as part of a non-permanent enactment.<ref>For example, the [[Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006|Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2006]], {{USPL|109|148}}, {{USStat|119|2680}} (2005)—a time-specific appropriations act that the President signed into law on December 30, 2005—contains in its Division A, Title X the [[Detainee Treatment Act]] of 2005 ("DTA"). The DTA set out, among other things, permanent provisions governing standards for interrogation of persons in Defense Department custody, prohibitions on cruel and unusual punishment, and procedures for status review of extraterritorial detainees. ''See id.'' at div. A, tit. X, §§&nbsp;1001–1006, {{USStat|119|2739}}–44. Notably, DTA section 1002 was printed as a note to {{USC|10|801}}; DTA section 1003 was codified as {{USC|42|2000dd}} (though the section has not yet been enacted into positive law); and DTA section 1005(e)(1) codified a new subsection (e) of {{USC|28|2241}} (which became positive law upon the DTA's enactment).

Congress also enacted a nearly identical version of the DTA as a component of the [[National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006]], ''see'' {{USPL|109|163}}, div. A, tit. XIV, §§&nbsp;1401–1406, {{USStat|119|3136}}, 3474–80 (2006)—an authorization act that the President signed into law on January 6, 2006 (a week after he signed the original DTA into law). The December 2005 and January 2006 versions of the DTA are generally identical except for certain provisions in the section relating to training of Iraqi security forces (section 1006 of the Dec. '05 DTA and section 1406 of the Jan. '06 DTA). As a result, both the Dec. '05 and Jan. '06 DTAs appear to have made essentially simultaneous and duplicative amendments to the Code and its notes. ''But see'' the legislative history notes under {{USC|28|2241}} (to the effect that two subsection (e)s of that statutory section have apparently been enacted).

As of {{date}}, there has been no litigation challenging the validity of either of the DTA statutes on these grounds.</ref>