44 U.S.C. § 1103
Certificate of necessity; estimate of cost
United States · Title 44 — PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS · Status: effective
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- 44 U.S.C. § 1103, Certificate of necessity; estimate of cost, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/486772
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When a department, the Supreme Court, or the Library of Congress requires printing or binding to be done, it shall certify that it is necessary for the public service. The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall then furnish an estimate of cost by principal items, after which requisitions may be made upon him for the printing or binding by the head of the department, the Clerk of the Supreme Court, or the Librarian of Congress, respectively. The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall place the cost to the debit of the department in its annual appropriation for printing and binding.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1981House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015House: 219–206Senate: no recorded tally