Joint or concurrent resolution
Original research draft · October 2026
Working pattern
[Resolution designation and number], [Congress/session], § [section] ([version/date]).
Capture from the source
Resolution type; chamber; number; session; version; legal status
Check before you use it
Identify the resolution type and actual procedural status before characterizing its effect.
Common error: Different resolution types should not be treated as interchangeable enactments.
Completed example
The legislative body, resolutions, procedures, and dates are fictional. This packet does not prescribe or characterize the legal effects of actual United States resolutions.
TRAIN H. Con. Res. 6, 6th Training Cong., ¶ 3 (agreed text Feb. 20, 2025).
Read the supplied source facts
Fictional packet TRAIN-L28 includes two documents from Northmere's invented Federal Assembly: TRAIN H. Con. Res. 6 and TRAIN H.J. Res. 6, both in its sixth Training Congress. The concurrent resolution's agreed text, dated February 20, 2025, concerns assembly scheduling and has paragraph 3. The joint resolution's introduced text concerns a different subject and has section 3. The assignment asks what the agreed concurrent resolution says about scheduling. The packet supplies the official training status sheet but contains no instruction equating the legal effects of the two document types.
Why this works
Preserve the resolution type because the shared numeral does not make these the same instrument. The locator is paragraph 3, the subdivision actually used by the selected document, rather than section 3 copied from the neighboring resolution. Agreed text identifies the supplied stage; it does not, without further governing material, establish every possible legal consequence. The source card should record the adopting bodies and procedural event shown in the status sheet. Describe the scheduling statement within those verified limits instead of automatically calling every resolution a statute or every introduced document an adopted measure.
When the facts change
If the writer needs to discuss the joint resolution's proposal, use its own full designation, version date, and section. If an amended concurrent resolution later changes paragraph 3, compare the agreed versions before describing the operative schedule. A search hit returning the right number but the wrong resolution type is an identity failure, even if the year and sponsoring chamber happen to match.
Apply the receiving court or publication’s requirements. These working forms do not establish citation permission, precedential weight, or support for a legal proposition.