Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 31 — Rural Electrification and Telephone Service
§ 906. Funding for administrative expenses
Statutory text
For the purpose of administering this chapter and for the purpose of making the studies, investigations, publications, and reports herein provided for, there is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as shall be necessary.
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. 74–432 · 49 Stat. 513
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 906
May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, § 6, 49 Stat. 1365
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, § 6, 49 Stat. 1365Pub. L. 94–124 § 3 · 89 Stat. 677
Inserted · 7 U.S.C. § 906
Pub. L. 94–124 inserted requirement that the Secretary of Agriculture testify before the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry each calendar year on or before February 15th or other date specified by the Committees to provide justification in detail of the amount requested in the budget to be appropriated for the next fiscal year
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 94–124 inserted requirement that the Secretary of Agriculture testify before the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry each calendar year on or before February 15th or other date specified by the Committees to provide justification in detail of the amount requested in the budget to be appropriated for the next fiscal year.Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. Section 6 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended, Testimony before congressional committees. 7 USC 906. is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “On or before February 15 of each calendar year beginning with calendar year 1976, or such other date as may be specified by the appropriate committee, the Secretary of Agriculture shall testify before the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and provide justification in detail of the amount requested in the budget to be appropriated for the next fiscal year for the purpose of administering this Act and for the purpose of making the studies, investigations, publications, and reports herein authorized.”.Pub. L. 103–437 § 4(a)(3) · 108 Stat. 4581
Substituted · 7 U.S.C. § 906
Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry” for “Committee on Agriculture and Forestry”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry” for “Committee on Agriculture and Forestry”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(3) section 6 of the Act of May 20, 1936 (7 U.S.C. 906).Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996
Pub. L. 104–127 title VII § 775 · 110 Stat. 888
Struck · 7 U.S.C. § 906
Pub. L. 104–127 struck out at end “On or before February 15, of each calendar year beginning with calendar year 1976, or such other date as may be specified by the appropriate committee, the Secretary of Agriculture shall testify before the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and provide justification in detail of the amount requested in the budget to be appropriated for the next fiscal year for the purpose of administering this chapter and for the purpose of making the studies, investigations, publications, and reports herein authorized.”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 104–127 struck out at end “On or before February 15, of each calendar year beginning with calendar year 1976, or such other date as may be specified by the appropriate committee, the Secretary of Agriculture shall testify before the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and provide justification in detail of the amount requested in the budget to be appropriated for the next fiscal year for the purpose of administering this chapter and for the purpose of making the studies, investigations, publications, and reports herein authorized.”Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 775. TESTIMONY ON BUDGET REQUESTS. Section 6 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 906) is amended by striking the second sentence.
3 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments1949–1996 · 4 rounds
1996
Pub. L. 104–127 struck out at end “On or before February 15, of each calendar year beginning with calendar year 1976, or such other date as may be specified by the appropriate committee, the Secretary of Agriculture shall testify before the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and provide justification in detail of the amount requested in the budget to be appropriated for the next fiscal year for the purpose of administering this chapter and for the purpose of making the studies, investigations, publications, and reports herein authorized.”
1994
Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry” for “Committee on Agriculture and Forestry”.
1975
Pub. L. 94–124 inserted requirement that the Secretary of Agriculture testify before the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry each calendar year on or before February 15th or other date specified by the Committees to provide justification in detail of the amount requested in the budget to be appropriated for the next fiscal year.
1949
Act , inserted “title I,” in credit of act .
Credits
1936–1996 · 5 acts
- 1936May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, § 6, 49 Stat. 1365
- 1949Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 776, § 2, 63 Stat. 948
- 1975Pub. L. 94–124, § 3, , 89 Stat. 677
- 1994Pub. L. 103–437, § 4(a)(3), , 108 Stat. 4581
- 1996Pub. L. 104–127, title VII, § 775, , 110 Stat. 1150.
Show as published
(May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, § 6, 49 Stat. 1365; Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 776, § 2, 63 Stat. 948; Pub. L. 94–124, § 3, , 89 Stat. 677; Pub. L. 103–437, § 4(a)(3), , 108 Stat. 4581; Pub. L. 104–127, title VII, § 775, , 110 Stat. 1150.)