Volume 95 · 4
Public Law 97–2
To provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.
Approved February 7, 1981
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 period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on September 30, 1981, 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 $585,000,000,000 (and any other provision of law providing for a temporary increase in such limit shall not apply).
Approved February 7, 1981.