Mining legislative history reveals an enactment’s purposes and its authors’ intended interpretation.

Evidence

By mining the legislative history of an enactment, a judge may better determine the purposes of the enactment and how its authors believed it should be interpreted. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2462

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the causal function of legislative history: it yields evidence of purpose and original intent.