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[CITE: 44USC701]

 
                 TITLE 44--PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
 
              CHAPTER 7--CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING
 
Sec. 701. ``Usual number'' of documents and reports; 
        distribution of House and Senate documents and reports; binding; 
        reports on private bills; number of copies printed; distribution
        
    (a) The order by either House of Congress to print a document or 
report shall signify the ``usual number'' of copies for binding and 
distribution among those entitled to receive them. A greater number may 
not be printed unless ordered by either House, or as provided by this 
section. When a special number of a document or report is ordered 
printed, the usual number shall also be printed, unless already ordered.
    (b) The ``usual number'' of documents and reports shall be one 
thousand six hundred and eighty-two copies, which shall be printed at 
one time and distributed as follows:
    Of the House documents and reports, unbound--to the Senate document 
room, one hundred and fifty copies; to the office of the Secretary of 
the Senate, ten copies; to the House document room, not to exceed five 
hundred copies; to the office of the Clerk of the House of 
Representatives, twenty copies; to the Library of Congress, ten copies, 
as provided by section 1718 of this title.
    Of the Senate documents and reports, unbound--to the Senate document 
room, two hundred and twenty copies; office of the Secretary of the 
Senate, ten copies; to the House document room, not to exceed five 
hundred copies; to the Clerk's office of the House of Representatives, 
ten copies; to the Library of Congress, ten copies, as provided by 
section 1718 of this title.
    (c) Of the number printed, the Public Printer shall bind a 
sufficient number of copies for distribution as follows:
    Of the House documents and reports, bound--to the Senate library, 
fifteen copies; to the Library of Congress, not to exceed one hundred 
and fifty copies, as provided by section 1718 of this title; to the 
House of Representatives library, fifteen copies; to the Superintendent 
of Documents, as many copies as are required for distribution to the 
State libraries and designated depositories.
    Of the Senate documents and reports, bound--to the Senate library, 
fifteen copies; to the Library of Congress, copies as provided by 
sections 1718 and 1719 of this title; to the House of Representatives 
library, fifteen copies; to the Superintendent of Documents, as many 
copies as may be required for distribution to State libraries and 
designated depositories. In binding documents the Public Printer shall 
give precedence to those that are to be distributed to libraries and to 
designated depositories. But a State library or designated depository 
entitled to documents that may prefer to have its documents in unbound 
form, may do so by notifying the Superintendent of Documents to that 
effect prior to the convening of each Congress.
    (d) The usual number of reports on private bills, concurrent or 
simple resolutions, may not be printed. Instead there shall be printed 
of each Senate report on a private bill, simple or concurrent 
resolution, in addition to those required to be furnished the Library of 
Congress, three hundred and forty-five copies, which shall be 
distributed as follows: to the Senate document room, two hundred and 
twenty copies; to the Secretary of the Senate, fifteen copies; to the 
House document room, one hundred copies; to the Superintendent of 
Documents, ten copies; and of each House report on a private bill, 
simple or concurrent resolution, in addition to those for the Library of 
Congress, two hundred and sixty copies, which shall be distributed as 
follows: to the Senate document room, one hundred and thirty-five 
copies; to the Secretary of the Senate, fifteen copies; to the House 
document room, one hundred copies; to the Superintendent of Documents, 
ten copies.
    This section does not prevent the binding of all Senate and House 
reports in the reserve volumes bound for and delivered to the Senate and 
House libraries, nor abridge the right of the Vice President, Senators, 
Representatives, Resident Commissioner, Secretary of the Senate, and 
Clerk of the House to have bound in half morocco, or material not more 
expensive, one copy of every public document to which he may be 
entitled. At least twelve copies of each report on bills for the payment 
or adjudication of claims against the Government shall be kept on file 
in the Senate document room.

(Pub. L. 90-620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1246.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., Sec. 131 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, 
Sec. 54, 28 Stat. 608; Mar. 2, 1901, No. 16, Secs. 1, 2, 31 Stat. 1464; 
Jan. 20, 1905, ch. 50, Sec. 1, 33 Stat. 610; Mar. 1, 1907, ch. 2284, 
Sec. 4, 34 Stat. 1014; Jan. 15, 1908, No. 3, Sec. 2, 35 Stat. 566; Mar. 
4, 1909, ch. 317, 35 Stat. 1067; June 25, 1910, ch. 439, 36 Stat. 868; 
Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 421, Secs. 6, 7, 43 Stat. 1106; June 20, 1936, ch. 
630, title IV, Sec. 6, 49 Stat. 1550; Proc. No. 2695, July 4, 1946, 11 
F.R. 7517, 60 Stat. 1352).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 2 section 28b.
