Number: RL30070
Title: INDEPENDENT COUNSEL LAW: DERIVATION OF MAJOR CHANGES TO PROVISIONS
Authors: Jack Maskell, American Law Division 
Abstract: This report traces the changes and derivation of the major amendments to the provisions of federal law authorizing the appointment of what is now called an "independent counsel. The original 1978 language of the law, enacted as part of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-521), is provided in fill in the left-hand column of the chart. The entire text of the current provisions of law (from the 1994 reauthorization, P.L. 103-270) is set out in the far right-hand column of the chart. The statutory text of significant changes in the act is placed in the other columns corresponding to the major amendments and reauthorizations in which such language was first adopted. Descriptions of some of the major changes are placed in the charts for explanation purposes in italics and brackets. All of the actual statutory language appears in regular print.
Pages: 34
Date: Updated February 22, 1999