The section is the basic unit of organization of a bill, and thus of an enacted statute. Section 104 of title 1, United States Code, provides that a section "shall contain, as nearly as may be, a single proposition of enactment". The terminology for referring to units within a section has become highly standardized and should be carefully ...

A bill should be written so that each individual thing the bill is doing will be its own section. You may also need a section on how the bill will be funded .

Each main requirement should be written as a separate section and should be introduced using the labels "Section One," "Section Two," and so on. More specific, defining statements should be inserted as subsections.

However, if you are adding a new code section, then a determination needs to be made regarding where in the 29 codes the bill’s language will be added. In addition, an understanding of the legislative scheme is necessary.

A draft bill or amendment to a bill should be well organized. Always keep the organization of a draft in mind when working with its individual provisions. SEC. 102. BREVITY. Use short, simple sentences rather than complex or compound sentences. If a shorter term is as good as a longer term, use the shorter term. SEC. 103. VERBS.