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Title 20 — Education

Chapter 72 — Museum and Library Services

§ 9102. Institute of Museum and Library Services

Statutory text

(a)

Establishment

There is established, within the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, an Institute of Museum and Library Services.

(b)

Offices

The Institute shall consist of an Office of Museum Services and an Office of Library Services.

(c)

Museum and Library Services Board

There shall be a National Museum and Library Services Board within the Institute, as provided under section 9105a of this title.

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. Museum Services Act

    Pub. L. 94–462 title II § 203 · 90 Stat. 1971

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 9102

    Pub. L. 94–462, title II, § 203, as added Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(e) [title VII, § 702], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–233, 3009–294

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 94–462, title II, § 203, as added Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(e) [title VII, § 702], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–233, 3009–294

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 203. institute of museum services There is hereby established, within the Department of Establishment. 20 USC 962. Health, Education, and Welfare, an Institute of Museum Services. The Institute shall consist of a National Museum Services Board and a Director of the Institute.

  2. Museum and Library Services Act of 2003

    Pub. L. 108–81 § 102(1) · 117 Stat. 991

    Struck · 20 U.S.C. § 9102(b)

    Pub. L. 108–81, § 102(1), struck out at end “There shall be a National Museum Services Board in the Office of Museum Services.”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108–81, § 102(1), struck out at end “There shall be a National Museum Services Board in the Office of Museum Services.”

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) in subsection (b), by striking the last sentence; and

  3. Museum and Library Services Act of 2003

    Pub. L. 108–81 § 102(2) · 117 Stat. 991

    Added · 20 U.S.C. § 9102(c)

    Pub. L. 108–81, § 102(2), added subsec. (c)

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 108–81, § 102(2), added subsec. (c).

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (2) by adding at the end the following: “(c) Museum and Library Services Board.— There shall be a National Museum and Library Services Board within the Institute, as provided under section 207.” .

3 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 203 of Pub. L. 94–462 was classified to section 962 of this title prior to the general amendment of title II of Pub. L. 94–462 by Pub. L. 104–208.

Amendments

2003—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108–81, § 102(1), struck out at end “There shall be a National Museum Services Board in the Office of Museum Services.”

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 108–81, § 102(2), added subsec. (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

Pub. L. 111–340, title IV, § 401(b), (c), , 124 Stat. 3604, provided that:

“(b)

Transfer of Functions.—

The functions that the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science exercised before the date of enactment of this Act [] shall be transferred to the Institute of Museum and Library Services established under section 203 of the Museum and Library Services Act (20 U.S.C. 9102).

“(c)

Transfer and Allocation of Appropriations and Personnel.—

The personnel and the assets, contracts, property, records, and unexpended balance of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds employed, held, used, arising from, available to, or to be made available for the functions and activities vested by law in the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science shall be transferred to the Institute of Museum and Library Services upon the date of enactment of this Act [].”

Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(e) [title VII, § 704], , 110 Stat. 3009–233, 3009–307, provided for transfer of functions from the Institute of Museum Services and the Library Program Office to Director of Institute of Museum and Library Services, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 108–81, title V, § 505(b), , 117 Stat. 1004.

References to National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Construed To Be References to Institute of Museum and Library Services

Pub. L. 111–340, title IV, § 401(d), , 124 Stat. 3605, provided that: “Any reference to the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science in any Federal law, Executive Order, rule, delegation of authority, or document shall be construed to refer to the Institute of Museum and Library Services when the reference regards functions transferred under subsection (b) [set out as a note above].”

Transition and Transfer of Funds

Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(e) [title VII, § 707], , 110 Stat. 3009–233, 3009–311, required Director of the Office of Management and Budget to take appropriate measures to ensure orderly transition from activities previously administered by Director of Library Programs in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the Department of Education to the activities administered by the Institute for Museum and Library Services, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 108–81, title V, § 505(b), , 117 Stat. 1004.

Executive Documents

Executive Order No. 14084

Ex. Ord. No. 14084, , 87 F.R. 60535, as amended by Ex. Ord. No. 14109, § 5, , 88 F.R. 68449, which established the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, was revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 14148, § 2(yy), , 90 F.R. 8239.

Extension of Term of President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

Term of President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities extended until , by Ex. Ord. No. 14109, , 88 F.R. 68447, set out as a note under section 1013 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Credits

1996–2003 · 2 acts
  1. 1996Pub. L. 94–462, title II, § 203, as added Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(e) [title VII, § 702], , 110 Stat. 3009–233, 3009–294
  2. 2003amended Pub. L. 108–81, title I, § 102, , 117 Stat. 992.
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(Pub. L. 94–462, title II, § 203, as added Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(e) [title VII, § 702], , 110 Stat. 3009–233, 3009–294; amended Pub. L. 108–81, title I, § 102, , 117 Stat. 992.)

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