Title 44 — Public Printing and Documents
Chapter 5 — Production and Procurement of Printing and Binding
§ 502. Procurement of printing, binding, and blank-book work by Director of the Government Publishing Office
Statutory text
Printing, binding, and blank-book work authorized by law, which the Director of the Government Publishing Office is not able or equipped to do at the Government Publishing Office, may be produced elsewhere under contracts made by him with the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing.
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.
Pub. L. 90–620 · 82 Stat. 1238
Enacted · 44 U.S.C. § 502
Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1243
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1243Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2015
Pub. L. 113–235 § 1301(c) · 128 Stat. 2130
Substituted · 44 U.S.C. § 502
Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(c), substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” in section catchline and text
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(c), substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” in section catchline and text.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(c) Title 44, United States Code.— Title 44, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking “Public Printer” each place that term appears and inserting “Director of the Government Publishing Office”; and (2) in the heading for each of sections 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 502, 710, 1102, 1111, 1115, 1340, 1701, 1712, and 1914, by striking “public printer” and inserting “director of the government publishing office”.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 111a (Feb. 28, 1929, ch. 367, § 1, 45 Stat. 1400).
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2014—Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(c), substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” in section catchline and text.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Government Publishing Office” substituted for “Government Printing Office” in text on authority of section 1301(b) of Pub. L. 113–235, set out as a note preceding section 301 of this title.
Contract Goal for Disadvantaged Small Businesses in Printing-Related Services
Pub. L. 100–456, div. A, title VIII, § 843, , 102 Stat. 2026, as amended by Pub. L. 101–574, title IV, § 401, , 104 Stat. 2832; Pub. L. 102–484, div. A, title VIII, §§ 801(h)(6), 806, , 106 Stat. 2445, 2448, required the Public Printer to establish and carry out a test program for increasing its award of contracts to small and disadvantaged businesses for the printing, binding, and related services needed by the Department of Defense for solicitations issued before .
Credits
1968–2014 · 2 acts
- 1968Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1243
- 2014Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(b), (c), , 128 Stat. 2537.
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(Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1243; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(b), (c), , 128 Stat. 2537.)