current law
Law in force
Current law refers to statutes, regulations, and legal principles as they exist at a given moment, typically the present: Under current law, the tax rate is 25 percent.
The phrase often appears in policy discussions contrasting what the law *is* with what it could become: Current law doesn't address this situation.
In legislative scoring, "current law baseline" projects outcomes assuming no new legislation passes.
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- federal statuteLaw enacted by Congress
- statuteEnacted written rule
- legal frameworkStructure of governing laws
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
tax code · amendment · ruling · precedent · supreme court · code · enacted · jurisdiction · compliance · enforcement · loophole · reform · judiciary · legal · binding · constitutional · bill of rights · civil rights
current lawcustom
Habitual group practice
tradition · social norm · convention · moral law · natural law
current, law, currently, currency, currents, laws, lawful, lawfully, unlawful