Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits
Part I · Chapter 1 — General
§ 116. Reports to Congress: cost information
Statutory text
Whenever the Secretary submits to Congress, or any committee of Congress, a report that is required by law or by a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference of the Congress, the Secretary shall include with the report—
a statement of the cost of preparing the report; and
a brief explanation of the methodology used in preparing that cost statement.
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.
Veterans Benefits and Health Care Improvement Act of 2000
Pub. L. 106–419 title IV § 403(d)(1)(A) · 114 Stat. 1822
Enacted · 38 U.S.C. § 116
(Added Pub. L. 106–419, title IV, § 403(d)(1)(A), Nov. 1, 2000, 114 Stat. 1864.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Added Pub. L. 106–419, title IV, § 403(d)(1)(A), Nov. 1, 2000, 114 Stat. 1864.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(A) Chapter 1 is amended by adding at the end the following new section: “§ 116. Reports to Congress: cost information “Whenever the Secretary submits to Congress, or any committee of Congress, a report that is required by law or by a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference of the Congress, the Secretary shall include with the report— “(1) a statement of the cost of preparing the report; and “(2) a brief explanation of the methodology used in preparing that cost statement.”.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Pub. L. 106–419, title IV, § 403(d)(2), , 114 Stat. 1864, provided that: “Section 116 of title 38, United States Code, as added by paragraph (1) of this subsection, shall apply with respect to any report submitted by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs after the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act [].”
Credits
(Added Pub. L. 106–419, title IV, § 403(d)(1)(A), , 114 Stat. 1864.)