Volume 97 · 1012
Public Law 98–161
Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt.
Approved November 21, 1983
Statutory text
Joint Resolution
Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (b) of
Public debt, increasing statutory limit.
increasing section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking out the dollar limitation contained in such subsection and inserting in lieu thereof “$1,389,000,000,000, or $1,490,000,000,000 on and after October 1, 1983,”.
Approved November 21, 1983.