The
United States Statutes at Large, commonly referred to as the
Statutes at Large and abbreviated
Stat., is the official record of
Acts of Congress and
concurrent resolutions passed by the
United States Congress. Each act and resolution of Congress is called a
slip law, which is classified as either
public law (abbreviated Pub.L.) or
private law (Pvt.L.), and designated and numbered accordingly. At the end of a Congress session, slip laws (now commonly called session laws) are compiled into
Statutes at Large, which are numbered and organised by Congress session. They are part of a three-part model for
publication of
federal statutes consisting of slip laws, session laws (
Statutes at Large), and
codification (
United States Code).