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==Usage==
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">({{USStatute|Congress|OrdinalLaw|Volume|Page|Year|Month|Day|BillType|BillNumber}})</syntaxhighlight>

or 

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">({{USStatute | 1=Congress | 2=OrdinalLaw | (3=Volume) | (4=Page) | (5=Year) | (6=Month) | (7=Day) | (8=BillType) | (9=BillNumber)}})</syntaxhighlight>

Public Law
: 1 = Congress
: 2 = Ordinal law

U.S. Statutes at large, optional
: 3 = Volume
: 4 = Page

Enactment date, optional
: 5 = Year, must be four-digit, YYYY
: 6 = Month, must be two-digit, MM, with leading zero if <10
: 7 = Day, must be two-digit, DD, with leading zero if <10

Bill, optional
: 8 = Bill type
: 9 = Bill number

This template uses {{tl|USPL}}, {{tl|USStat}}, and {{tl|USBill}} along with the date and bill type.

Bill types are documented at [[Template:USBill/doc#Parameters]].

This template links to external sites. External links should not normally be used in the body of an article; see [[Wikipedia:External links]] for editing guidelines covering acceptable and unacceptable uses. In particular, notice the "[[Wikipedia:External links#cite note-body-2|exemption clause]]" that allows this template, along with its external links, to be used in an article's body.

== Examples ==

*<span style="background:#ccccaa">You enter:</span>{{mono| <nowiki>The '''NASA Flexibility Act of 2004''' ({{USStatute|108|201|118|461|2004|02|24}}) was passed...</nowiki>}}<br>
*<span style="background:#ccccff">Template returns:</span>The '''NASA Flexibility Act of 2004''' ({{USStatute|108|201|118|461|2004|02|24}}) was passed...

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