[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1665 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1665

   To authorize the Librarian of Congress to retain the proceeds of 
                certain sales, payments or restitution.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            November 17 (legislative day, November 2), 1993

  Mr. Pell (by request) introduced the following bill; which was read 
    twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize the Librarian of Congress to retain the proceeds of 
                certain sales, payments or restitution.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Library of Congress Retention of 
Proceeds Act''.

SEC. 2. SALE OF EXCESS MATERIALS.

    Personal property, including books, periodicals and other 
materials, that the Librarian of Congress (hereafter in this Act 
referred to as the ``Librarian'') determines to be excess to the 
collections of the Library of Congress (hereafter in this Act referred 
to as the ``Library'') or the exchange and donation programs of the 
Library may be sold by the Librarian pursuant to regulations 
promulgated by the Administrator of the General Services Administration 
for the disposal of personal property by sale, except that the 
Librarian shall not sell--
            (1) copies of unpublished works that became the property of 
        the United States pursuant to the registration of claims to 
        copyright under section 408 of title 17, United States Code;
            (2) copies of materials received by the Library under 
        written deeds of gift or other contractual agreements signed 
        both by the donor and the Library, insofar as such agreements 
        expressly preclude the transfer of ownership or possession by 
        the Library of such copies;
            (3) materials distributed by the National Library Service 
        for the Blind and Physically Handicapped; or
            (4) products of the Congressional Research Service.

SEC. 3. ACCEPTANCE OF PAYMENTS OR RESTITUTION.

    The Librarian is authorized to accept all sums tendered as payment 
or restitution for lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed books, 
periodicals, newspapers, or other materials from the Library's 
collection if such sums are--
            (1) ordered by any judicial or administrative authority to 
        be paid to the Library; or
            (2) received from a borrower.

SEC. 4. RETENTION OF PROCEEDS OF SALES, PAYMENTS OR RESTITUTION.

    (a) Account Established.--There is established in the Treasury of 
the United States an account consisting of the proceeds of any sale 
described in section 2 or of any payment or restitution described in 
section 3.
    (b) Expenditures.--Amounts in the account described in subsection 
(a) shall be available to the Librarian, to the extent provided in 
appropriations Acts, until expended, for the acquisition of books, 
periodicals, and other materials, including the costs of administering 
the national and international acquisition programs of the Library.

SEC. 5. REPORT.

    The Librarian shall report the activities and financial 
transactions of the account described in section 4(a) in the annual 
report of the Librarian to the Congress.

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