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Title 2 — The Congress

Chapter 55 — House of Representatives Officers and Administration

§ 5562. Preservation of reports, statements, or documents filed with Clerk of House

Statutory text

(a)

If the Clerk of the House of Representatives is required under any law, rule, or regulation to make available for public inspection a report, statement, or other document filed with the Office of the Clerk, the Clerk shall preserve the report, statement, or document—

(1)

for a period of 6 years from the date on which the document is filed; or

(2)

if the law, rule, or regulation so provides, the period required under such law, rule, or regulation.

(b)

Subsection (a) shall apply with respect to reports, statements, and documents filed before, on, or after .

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.

  1. Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2005

    Pub. L. 108–447 div. G title I § 106 · 118 Stat. 2809

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 5562

    (Pub. L. 108–447, div. G, title I, § 106, Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 3176.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 108–447, div. G, title I, § 106, Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 3176.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 106. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant to this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated to “Buildings and Facilities, Federal Prison System” in this or any other Act may be transferred to “Salaries and Expenses, Federal Prison System”, or any other Department of Justice account, unless the President certifies that such a transfer is necessary to the national security interests of the United States, and such authority shall not be delegated, and shall be subject to section 605 of this Act.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 104c of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is from the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2005, which is div. G of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005.

Credits

(Pub. L. 108–447, div. G, title I, § 106, , 118 Stat. 3176.)

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