Volume 97 · 1104
Public Law 98–167
To amend the Debt Collection Act of 1982 to eliminate the requirement that contracts for collection services to recover indebtedness owed the United States be effective only to the extent and in the amount provided in advance appropriation Acts.
Approved November 29, 1983
Statutory text
An Act
To amend the Debt Collection Act of 1982 to eliminate the requirement that contracts for collection services to recover indebtedness owed the United States be effective only to the extent and in the amount provided in advance appropriation Acts.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (c)
Debt Collection Act of 1982, amendment.
of section 3718 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “This limitation does not apply in the case of a contract that authorizes a person to collect a fee as provided in subsection (b) of this section.”.
Approved November 29, 1983.