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Public Law 95–333
To provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.
Approved August 3, 1978
Statutory text
An Act
To provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, during the
Public debt limit.
Temporary increase.
31 USC 757b note.
period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on March 31, 1979, the public debt limit set forth in the first sentence of section 21 of the Second Liberty Bond Act (31 U.S.C. 757b) shall be temporarily increased by $398,000,000,000.
Sec. 2.
Effective on the date of the enactment of this Act, the first
Repeal; effective date.
section of the Act of October 4, 1977, entitled “An Act to increase the temporary debt limit, and for other purposes” (Public Law 95–120), is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3.
The last sentence of the second paragraph of the first section of the Second Liberty Bond Act (31 U.S.C. 752) is amended by striking out “$27,000,000,000” and inserting in lieu thereof “$32,000,000,000”.
Approved August 3, 1978.