Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 51 — National Productivity and Quality of Working Life
§ 2403. Congressional declaration of policy
Statutory text
Stimulation of high rate of productivity growth
The Congress, recognizing the profound impact of productivity on the interrelations of all components of the national economy, declares that it is the continuing policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local governments, to use all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, to stimulate a high rate of productivity growth.
Improvement and coordination of Federal plans to carry out policy
It is the continuing responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means to improve and coordinate Federal plans, functions, programs, and resources to carry out the policy set forth in this chapter.
Interpretation of laws, rules, etc., to carry out policy
The laws, rules, regulations, and policies of the United States shall be so interpreted as to give full force and effect to this policy.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
National Productivity and Quality of Working Life Act of 1975
Pub. L. 94–136 title I § 103 · 89 Stat. 733
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 2403
(Pub. L. 94–136, title I, § 103, Nov. 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 734.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 94–136, title I, § 103, Nov. 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 734.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 103. policy (a) The Congress, recognizing the profound impact of productivity on the interrelations of all components of the national economy, declares that it is the continuing policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local governments, to use all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, to stimulate a high rate of productivity growth. (b) It is the continuing responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means to improve and coordinate Federal plans, functions, programs, and resources to carry out the policy set forth in this Act. (c) The laws, rules, regulations, and policies of the United States shall be so interpreted as to give full force and effect to this policy.
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