44 U.S.C. § 728 — United States Statutes at Large: distribu-

Page 29 TITLE 44—PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS § 730 § 726. Printing for committees of Congress A committee of Congress may not procure the printing of more than one thousand copies of a hearing, or other document germane thereto, for its use except by simple, concurrent, or joint resolution, as provided by section 703 of this title. (Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1252.) HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 154 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 2, 28 Stat. 601; Mar. 1, 1907, ch. 2284, § 1, 34 Stat. 1012). § 727. Committee reports: indexing and binding The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall procure and file for the use of their respective House copies of all reports made by committees, and at the close of each session of Congress shall have the reports indexed and bound, one copy to be depos- ited in the library of each House and one copy in the committee from which the report emanates. (Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1252.) HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 155 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 83, 28 Stat. 622). § 728. United States Statutes at Large: distribu- tion The Director of the Government Publishing Office, after the final adjournment of each reg- ular 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 distribu- tion of the copies. The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall print and, after the end of each cal- endar year, bind and deliver to the Super- intendent of Documents a number of copies of the United States Treaties and Other Inter- national Agreements not exceeding the number of copies of the United States Statutes at Large required for distribution in the manner provided by law. (Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1252; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537.) 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, Oct. 1, 1976, 90 Stat. 1459, pro- vided that: ‘‘Hereafter, notwithstanding any other pro- visions of law, appropriations for the automatic dis- tribution to Senators and Representatives (including Delegates to Congress and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico) of copies of the United States Stat- utes at Large shall not be available with respect to any Senator or Representative unless such Senator or Rep- resentative specifically, in writing, requests that he re- ceive copies of such document.’’ § 729. United States Statutes at Large: references in margins The Archivist of the United States shall in- clude in the references in margins of the United States Statutes at Large the number of the bill or joint resolution (designating S. for Senate bill, H.R. for House bill, S.J. Res. for Senate joint resolution and H.J. Res. for House joint resolution, as the case may be) under which each Act was approved and became a law, the reference in the margins to be placed within brackets immediately under the date of the ap- proval of the Act at the beginning of each Act as printed beginning with Volume 32 of the United States Statutes at Large. (Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1252; Pub. L. 98–497, title I, § 107(b)(1), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2286.) HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 197 (Apr. 12, 1904, No. 20, 33 Stat. 589; 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 20, § 1, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3178, 64 Stat. 1272). Editorial Notes AMENDMENTS 1984—Pub. L. 98–497 substituted ‘‘Archivist of the United States’’ for ‘‘Administrator of General Serv- ices’’. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1984 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 98–497 effective Apr. 1, 1985, see section 301 of Pub. L. 98–497, set out as a note under section 2102 of this title. § 730. Distribution of documents to Members of Congress When, in the division among Senators, and Representatives, of documents printed for the use of Congress there is an apportionment to each or either House in round numbers, the Di- rector of the Government Publishing Office may not deliver the full number so accredited at the Senate Service Department and House of Rep- resentatives Publications Distribution Service, but only the largest multiple of the number con- stituting the full membership of that House, in- cluding the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and Clerk and Sergeant at Arms of the House, which is contained in the round num- bers thus accredited to that House, so that the number delivered divides evenly and without re- mainder among the Members of the House to which they are delivered; and the remainder of the documents thus resulting shall be turned over to the Superintendent of Documents, to be distributed by him, first, to public and school li- braries for the purpose of completing broken sets; second, to public and school libraries that have not been supplied with any portions of the