Title 44 — Public Printing and Documents
Chapter 7 — Congressional Printing and Binding
§ 728. United States Statutes at Large: distribution
Statutory text
The Director of the Government Publishing Office, after the final adjournment of each regular session of Congress, shall print and bind copies of the United States Statutes at Large, to be charged to the congressional allotment for printing and binding. The Joint Committee on Printing shall control the number and distribution of the copies.
The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall print and, after the end of each calendar year, bind and deliver to the Superintendent of Documents a number of copies of the United States Treaties and Other International Agreements not exceeding the number of copies of the United States Statutes at Large required for distribution in the manner provided by law.
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. § 728
Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1252
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1252Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2015
Pub. L. 113–235 div. H title I § 1301(c)(1) · 128 Stat. 2130
Substituted · 44 U.S.C. § 728
Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” in two places
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” in two places.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) by striking “Public Printer” each place that term appears and inserting “Director of the Government Publishing Office”; and
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 196a (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 73, 28 Stat. 615; June 20, 1936, ch. 630, title VI, § 9, 49 Stat. 1551; June 16, 1938, ch. 477, § 2, 52 Stat. 761; Sept. 23, 1950, ch. 1001, § 4, 64 Stat. 980; July 10, 1952, ch. 632, § 2, 66 Stat. 540).
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2014—Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” in two places.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Written Requests for Copies of United States Statutes at Large
Pub. L. 94–440, title X, , 90 Stat. 1459, provided that: “Hereafter, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, appropriations for the automatic distribution to Senators and Representatives (including Delegates to Congress and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico) of copies of the United States Statutes at Large shall not be available with respect to any Senator or Representative unless such Senator or Representative specifically, in writing, requests that he receive copies of such document.”
Credits
1968–2014 · 2 acts
- 1968Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1252
- 2014Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), , 128 Stat. 2537.
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(Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1252; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), , 128 Stat. 2537.)