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[CITE: 31USC1345]

 
                       TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE
 
                     SUBTITLE II--THE BUDGET PROCESS
 
                       CHAPTER 13--APPROPRIATIONS
 
         SUBCHAPTER III--LIMITATIONS, EXCEPTIONS, AND PENALTIES
 
Sec. 1345. Expenses of meetings

    Except as specifically provided by law, an appropriation may not be 
used for travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses for a meeting. 
This section does not prohibit--
        (1) an agency from paying the expenses of an officer or employee 
    of the United States Government carrying out an official duty; and
        (2) the Secretary of Agriculture from paying necessary expenses 
    for a meeting called by the Secretary for 4-H Boys and Girls Clubs 
    as part of the cooperative extension work of the Department of 
    Agriculture.

(Pub. L. 97-258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 925.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised Section                   Source (U.S. Code)                
Source (Statutes at Large)
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1345.................................  31:551.                         Feb. 2, 
1935, ch. 4, 49 Stat. 19.
                                       31:552.                         June 17,
 1935, ch. 271, 49 Stat. 387.
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    In the section, before clause (1), the word ``appropriation'' is 
substituted for ``no moneys from funds appropriated for any purpose'' in 
31:551 for consistency in the revised title. The words ``travel, 
transportation, and subsistence expenses for a meeting'' are substituted 
for ``the purpose of lodging, feeding, conveying, or furnishing 
transportation to, any conventions or other form of assemblage or 
gathering'' to eliminate unnecessary words. The words ``to be held in 
the District of Columbia or elsewhere'' are omitted as unnecessary.
    In clause (1), the words ``agency from paying'' are substituted for 
``the payment of'' for clarity and because of section 101 of the revised 
title.


    Availability of Appropriations for Expenses of Attending Meetings

    Pub. L. 102-394, title V, Sec. 505, Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1825, 
provided that: ``Appropriations contained in this Act or subsequent 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Acts, available for salaries and 
expenses, shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings 
which are concerned with the functions or activities for which the 
appropriation is made or which will contribute to improved conduct, 
supervision, or management of those functions or activities.''
    Similar provisions were contained in the following prior 
appropriation acts:
    Pub. L. 102-170, title V, Sec. 505, Nov. 26, 1991, 105 Stat. 1141.
    Pub. L. 101-517, title V, Sec. 505, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 2221.
    Pub. L. 101-166, title V, Sec. 505, Nov. 21, 1989, 103 Stat. 1189.
    Pub. L. 100-202, Sec. 101(h) [title V, Sec. 505], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 
Stat. 1329-256, 1329-287.
    Pub. L. 99-500, Sec. 101(i) [H.R. 5233, title V, Sec. 505], Oct. 18, 
1986, 100 Stat. 1783-287, and Pub. L. 99-591, Sec. 101(i) [H.R. 5233, 
title V, Sec. 505], Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341-287.
    Pub. L. 99-178, title V, Sec. 505, Dec. 12, 1985, 99 Stat. 1132.
    Pub. L. 98-619, title V, Sec. 505, Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3333.
    Pub. L. 98-139, title V, Sec. 505, Oct. 31, 1983, 97 Stat. 899.
    Pub. L. 97-377, title I, Sec. 101(e)(1) [title V, Sec. 505], Dec. 
21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1878, 1904.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 5 section 6327; title 22 
section 290f; title 40 section 214e; title 42 section 3788.
