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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.

  1. 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. 1365

  2. Pub. 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.”.

  3. 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).

  4. 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
  1. 1936May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, § 6, 49 Stat. 1365
  2. 1949Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 776, § 2, 63 Stat. 948
  3. 1975Pub. L. 94–124, § 3, , 89 Stat. 677
  4. 1994Pub. L. 103–437, § 4(a)(3), , 108 Stat. 4581
  5. 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.)

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