[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3916 Referred in Senate (RFS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3916


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 5, 1996

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 AN ACT


 
To make available certain Voice of America and Radio Marti multilingual 
              computer readable text and voice recordings.

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

SECTION 1. AVAILABILITY OF VOICE OF AMERICA AND RADIO MARTI 
              MULTILINGUAL COMPUTER READABLE TEXT AND VOICE RECORDINGS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding section 208 of the Foreign 
Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (22 U.S.C. 
1461-1a) and the second sentence of section 501 of the United States 
Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1461), the 
Director of the United States Information Agency is authorized to make 
available, upon request, to the Linguistic Data Consortium of the 
University of Pennsylvania computer readable multilingual text and 
recorded speech in various languages. The Consortium shall, directly or 
indirectly as appropriate, reimburse the Director for any expenses 
involved in making such materials available.
    (b) Termination.--Subsection (a) shall cease to have effect 5 years 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 4, 1996.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.