[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[S. 2288 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2288

 To provide for the reform and continuing legislative oversight of the 
production, procurement, dissemination, and permanent public access of 
         the Government's publications, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 10, 1998

  Mr. Warner introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the reform and continuing legislative oversight of the 
production, procurement, dissemination, and permanent public access of 
         the Government's publications, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Senator Wendell H. Ford of Kentucky, who has served 
        four terms in the U.S. Senate beginning in 1974 and has 
        announced his retirement at the end of the 105th Congress, has 
        been a staunch advocate of the right of the American public to 
        have free and open access to the publications of their Federal 
        Government.
            (2) Senator Ford has been a supporter and friend to 
        libraries and education all of his political life.
            (3) Senator Ford has become a trusted and effective Member 
        of the U.S. Senate as evidenced by his election by his peers to 
        be Assistant Democratic Leader of the Senate on two different 
        occasions.
            (4) As Governor of Kentucky, Wendell Ford completely 
        restructured and streamlined State government to make it more 
        responsive to the people and more effective in providing 
        services.
            (5) As Governor of Kentucky, Wendell Ford moved the 
        Division of Archives and Records from the Department for 
        Finance and Administration to the Department of Libraries to 
        merge the State's two primary information agencies into one 
        department.
            (6) As Governor of Kentucky, Wendell Ford dramatically 
        increased funding to all levels of education, and as a U.S. 
        Senator has always supported full funding for Library Services 
        and Construction Act and Library Services and Technology Act 
        programs.
            (7) Senator Ford shaped and sponsored the National Voter 
        Registration Act to make it easier for citizens to participate 
        in their government by choosing their leaders.
            (8) Senator Ford, as a member of the Senate Commerce 
        Committee, was instrumental in ensuring that the 
        Telecommunications Act of 1996 included a provision that 
allows generous discounts for schools and libraries to connect with the 
Internet.
            (9) Senator Ford has been a major proponent of making 
        Federal information accessible to the people through the 
        Federal Depository Library Program.
            (10) Senator Ford has been a determined supporter of the 
        Government Printing Office and its information dissemination 
        programs, frequently safeguarding the resources needed for the 
        Federal Depository Library Program.
            (11) Senator Ford cosponsored and supported S.J. Res. 57, 
        the National Policy on Permanent Paper, to promote the use of 
        permanent papers in printing Federal Government publications of 
        enduring value to the people.
            (12) Senator Ford, through his leadership role on the 
        Senate Rules and Administration Committee and the Joint 
        Committee on Printing, improved the people's access to Federal 
        Government information by holding hearings on the issue of 
        ``fugitive documents'' in 1991.
            (13) Senator Ford, through his leadership role on the 
        Senate Rules and Administration Committee and the Joint 
        Committee on Printing, was a prime mover in the passage of the 
        ``Government Printing Office Electronic Information Enhancement 
        Act of 1993,'' enabling GPO to move onto the electronic 
        information highway and to create an electronic storage 
        facility for electronic government information.
            (14) Senator Ford, in recognition of his active support for 
        greater public access to Federal Government information 
        resources, received the James Madison Award from the Coalition 
        of Government Information in 1993.
            (15) Senator Ford, in recognition of his lifelong support 
        of libraries and library programs, his dedication to the 
        principle of public access to Federal Government information 
        throughout his congressional career, and in honor of his 
        retirement from the U.S. Senate after twenty-four years of 
        distinguished service to his country and the people of the 
        United States, was awarded Honorary Membership in the American 
        Library Association on June 27, 1998.
            (16) It is altogether fitting and proper that this Act, the 
        most comprehensive and far reaching proposal to ensure 
        permanent public access to the Government's publications, 
        regardless of form or format, to come before the Congress of 
        the United States during the tenure of Senator Ford, be named 
        in his honor.
    (b) Short Title.--This Act shall be cited as the ``Wendell H. Ford 
Government Publications Reform Act of 1998''.

SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    The table of contents is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Sec. 3. Findings and purposes.
Sec. 4. Definitions.
   TITLE I--TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING

Sec. 101. Purpose.
Sec. 102. Repeal of provisions establishing the Joint Committee on 
                            Printing.
Sec. 103. Legislative oversight functions.
Sec. 104. Repeal of waivers.
Sec. 105. References.
Sec. 106. Effective date.
                TITLE II--GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS OFFICE

Sec. 201. Government Publications Office.
TITLE III--GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS OFFICE; PUBLICATIONS PRODUCTION AND 
                    PRODUCTION PROCUREMENT SERVICES

Sec. 301. Government Publications Office; publications production and 
                            production procurement services.
Sec. 302. Production of publications and procurement of publication 
                            services by Congress and legislative 
                            agencies.
Sec. 303. Congressional Record.
Sec. 304. Production of publications and procurement of publication 
                            services; legislative oversight.
Sec. 305. Particular Government publications.
Sec. 306. Costs of producing regulatory publications.
Sec. 307. Publications of the Supreme Court.
Sec. 308. Repeal of provisions exempting statutory publication 
                            production and production procurement 
                            requirements.
Sec. 309. Additional technical and conforming amendments relating to 
                            congressional publications.
      TITLE IV--OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS ACCESS PROGRAMS

Sec. 401. Short title.
Sec. 402. Federal Publications Access Programs.
Sec. 403. Distribution and sale of Government publications by 
                            Superintendent of Government Publications 
                            Access Programs.
Sec. 404. Technical and conforming amendments relating to the 
                            Superintendent of Government Publications 
                            Access Programs.
             TITLE V--ADMINISTRATIVE AND SAVINGS PROVISIONS

Sec. 501. Continuation of employment terms and conditions.
Sec. 502. Proceedings not affected.
Sec. 503. Suits not affected.
Sec. 504. Nonabatement of actions.
Sec. 505. Separability.
Sec. 506. Transfer of certain functions of the Joint Committee on 
                            Printing.
Sec. 507. Additional technical and conforming amendments.
Sec. 508. Implementation actions.
Sec. 509. Effective date.

SEC. 3. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
            (1) in a democracy, public access to Government 
        publications is fundamental to fostering an informed citizenry 
        in order to promote meaningful participation in the democratic 
        process;
            (2) easy and equitable access to Federal Government 
        publications contributes to economic development in many 
        sectors of the Nation's economy;
            (3) permanent public access to Federal Government 
        publications through a diversity of sources, including a system 
        of Federal publications access libraries, should be guaranteed;
            (4) the Federal Government should seek the most effective 
        and efficient means of producing, disseminating, and providing 
        permanent public access to its publications, and these means 
        should not be placed at risk due to jurisdictional disputes 
        between the branches of the Federal Government;
            (5) duplicative in-house agency publications production is 
        costly and inefficient and should be phased out and replaced 
        with--
                    (A) procurement through the Government Publications 
                Office, consistent with this Act; or
                    (B) as appropriate, from competitively selected 
                private sector commercial sources;
            (6) recent practices by Federal agencies of privatizing 
        Government publications have resulted in a significant loss of 
        publications that should have been made available to the public 
        through the Federal publications access program;
            (7) technological developments provide opportunities for 
        increasing efficiencies in the production and dissemination of 
        Government publications, but also pose challenges for ensuring 
        broad-based, permanent public access to Government publications 
        in new forms and format;
            (8) the establishment of a mechanism for contemporaneous 
        monitoring and evaluation of such developments is essential in 
        order to maintain a continuous flow of timely, useful, and 
        permanently accessible Government publications to the public; 
        and
            (9) the dissemination and permanent public access of 
        Government publications must be guaranteed through a mechanism 
        with sufficient independence and authority to ensure agency 
        compliance with their obligation to provide material for the 
        Federal publications access program.
    (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are to--
            (1) reform the oversight and management of the production, 
        dissemination, and permanent public access to the Federal 
        Government's publications;
            (2) guarantee permanent public access to publications 
        produced by the Federal Government, regardless of form or 
        format; and
            (3) facilitate the efficient and economical production, 
        dissemination, and permanent public access to Government 
        publications.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act, the term--
            (1) ``Government Publication'' has the meaning given such 
        term under section 1902(3) of title 44, United States Code, as 
        amended by this Act;
            (2) ``agency'' has the meaning given such term under 
        section 1902(1) of title 44, United States Code (as amended by 
        this Act); and
            (3) ``House of Representatives'' shall include the Resident 
        Commissioner.

   TITLE I--TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING

SEC. 101. PURPOSE.

    The purpose of this title is to provide for the orderly transfer of 
functions of the Joint Committee on Printing, as appropriate, to--
            (1) the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 
        Senate;
            (2) the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
        Representatives; and
            (3) the Government Publications Office, and as appropriate, 
        to--
                    (A) the Administrator;
                    (B) the Superintendent of Government Publications 
                Production and Procurement Services; and
                    (C) the Superintendent of Government Publications 
                Access Programs.

SEC. 102. REPEAL OF PROVISIONS ESTABLISHING THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON 
              PRINTING.

    Chapter 1 of title 44, United States Code, is repealed, and the 
table of chapters for title 44, United States Code, is amended by 
striking the item relating to chapter 1.

SEC. 103. LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT FUNCTIONS.

    (a) In General.--All legislative oversight functions (including all 
oversight jurisdiction, duties, authorities, and responsibilities) of 
the Joint Committee on Printing on the day before the effective date of 
this Act shall be performed by the Committee on Rules and 
Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of 
the House of Representatives on and after such date.
    (b) Regulation.--Unless otherwise provided by this Act, the 
Administrator shall cause to remain in effect as appropriate the 
Government Printing and Binding Regulations No. 26, effective February 
1990, as contained in Senate Publication, S.Pub. 101-9, in effect until 
the Administrator of the Government Publications Office publishes final 
regulations in accordance with section 301 of title 44, United States 
Code (as amended by this Act).

SEC. 104. REPEAL OF WAIVERS.

    All waivers granted and other provisions required of executive and 
judicial branch agencies and independent establishments by the Joint 
Committee on Printing under the Government Printing and Binding 
Regulations before the date of enactment of this Act shall be void 120 
days following such date of enactment.

SEC. 105. REFERENCES.

    Reference in any Federal law, Executive order, rule, regulation, or 
delegation of authority, or any document of or relating to the Joint 
Committee on Printing shall be deemed to refer to the Committee on 
Rules and Administration of the Senate, the Committee on House 
Oversight of the House of Representatives, or the Government 
Publications Office, as appropriate.

SEC. 106. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This title shall take effect on January 1, 1999.

                TITLE II--GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS OFFICE

SEC. 201. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS OFFICE.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 3, title 44, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:

              ``CHAPTER 3--GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS OFFICE

``Sec.
``301. Administrator; Government Publications Office: appointment; 
                            duties; and pay.
``302. Government Publications Office; Deputy Administrator: 
                            appointment; duties; and pay.
``303. Government Publications Office; employee pay.
``304. Government Publications Office; night work.
``305. Disbursing officer, deputy disbursing officer, certifying 
                            officers and employees.
``306. Revolving Fund for operation of Government Publications Office.
``307. Payments for printing, binding, blank paper, supplies, and 
                            publications production services.
``308. Procurement authority.
``309. Machinery, material, equipment, or supplies from other 
                            Government agencies.
``310. Inks, glues, and other supplies furnished to other Government 
                            agencies: payment.
``311. Branches of Government Publications Office: limitations.
``312. Detail of employees of Government Publications Office to other 
                            Government establishments.
``313. Government Publications Office security.
``314. Transfer of surplus property.
``315. Sales of reproducibles.
``316. Use of Federal advisory committees.
``Sec. 301. Administrator; Government Publications Office: appointment; 
              duties; and pay
    ``(a) The President of the United States shall appoint, by and with 
the advice and consent of the Senate, the Administrator who shall take 
charge of and manage the Government Publications Office.
    ``(b) The Administrator may use any measures the Administrator 
considers necessary to carry out the duties and powers of the office 
and to remedy neglect, delay, duplication, or waste in the production, 
procurement, and dissemination of the Federal Government's 
publications, and to enhance and expand the dissemination of, and 
maintenance of permanent public access to, the Federal Government's 
publications.
    ``(c)(1) After notice and comment, and in consultation with the 
Office of Management and Budget, the Administrative Office of the 
United States Courts, the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 
Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
Representatives, the Administrator may issue regulations consistent 
with this title to carry out the purposes of this title.
    ``(2) All such regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with 
the requirements of section 553 and section 556 of title 5, United 
States Code, and the requirements of chapter 7, United States Code.
    ``(3) All such regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with 
chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, and notwithstanding section 
804(2), all such regulations promulgated shall be treated as a ``major 
rule.''
    ``(d) The annual rate of pay for the Administrator shall be a rate 
equal to the rate payable for a position at level III of the Executive 
Schedule under section 5314 of title 5.
``Sec. 302. Government Publications Office; Deputy Administrator: 
              appointment; duties; and pay
    ``(a) The Administrator shall appoint a suitable person to be the 
Deputy Administrator.
    ``(b)(1) The Deputy Administrator shall perform--
            ``(A) all duties and responsibilities assigned by the 
        Administrator; and
            ``(B) the duties and responsibilities of the Administrator 
        in the event of--
                    ``(i) a vacancy in the office of the Administrator; 
                or
                    ``(ii) incapacity of the Administrator.
    ``(2) In the event of a vacancy or incapacity under paragraph 
(1)(B), the Deputy Administrator shall serve until a successor 
Administrator is appointed, but for no longer than 1 year after a 
vacancy or incapacity occurs.
    ``(c) The annual rate of pay for the Deputy Administrator shall be 
a rate equal to the rate payable for a position at level IV of the 
Executive Schedule under section 5314 of title 5.
``Sec. 303. Government Publications Office; employee pay
    ``(a)(1) The Administrator may employ persons necessary for the 
work of the Government Publications Office at rates of wages and 
salaries, including compensation for night and overtime work, the 
Administrator considers for the interest of the Government and just to 
the persons employed, except as otherwise provided by this section.
    ``(2) The Administrator may not employ more persons than the 
necessities of public work require.
    ``(b) The rate of wages, including compensation for night and 
overtime work, for more than 10 employees of the same occupation shall 
be determined by a conference between the Administrator and a committee 
selected by the trades affected.
    ``(c)(1) Wages affecting the employees of the Government 
Publications Office shall be negotiated between the Administrator and 
bargaining representatives of the employees of the Government 
Publications Office.
    ``(2) If the Administrator and the bargaining representatives of 
the employees fail to agree to wages, salaries, and compensation, the 
dispute shall be referred to an arbitrator chosen from a panel of 3 
arbitrators.
    ``(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the Administrator and the 
bargaining representatives of the employees shall enter into an 
agreement that governs--
            ``(A) the selection of arbitrators for the panel; and
            ``(B) the procedures applicable to the panel.
    ``(4) The costs of the proceedings of the panel, including 
transcripts, shall be paid as follows:
            ``(A) 50 percent of such costs shall be paid by the 
        Government Publications Office.
            ``(B) 50 percent of such costs shall be paid by the 
        bargaining representatives of the employees.
    ``(5) A decision by the arbitrator shall be final and binding on 
all parties.
    ``(d) The wages, salaries, and compensation so determined are not 
subject to change more than once a year.
    ``(e) The Administrator may grant an employee paid on an annual 
basis compensatory time off from work duty instead of overtime pay for 
overtime work.
``Sec. 304. Government Publications Office; night work
    ``The Administrator shall cause the work of the Government 
Publications Office to be done at night as well as through the day, 
when the exigencies of the public service require it.
``Sec. 305. Disbursing officer; deputy disbursing officer; certifying 
              officers and employees
    ``(a) The Administrator shall appoint from time to time a 
disbursing officer of the Government Publications Office who shall be 
under the direction of the Administrator. The disbursing officer shall 
(1) disburse moneys of the Government Publications Office only upon, 
and in strict accordance with, vouchers certified by the Administrator 
or by an officer or employee of the Government Publications Office 
authorized in writing by the Administrator to certify such vouchers, 
(2) make such examination of vouchers as may be necessary to ascertain 
whether they are in proper form, certified, and approved, and (3) be 
held accountable accordingly. However, the disbursing officer shall not 
be held accountable or responsible for any illegal, improper, or 
incorrect payment resulting from any false, inaccurate, or misleading 
certificate, the responsibility for which, under subsection (c) of this 
section, is imposed upon a certifying officer or employee of the 
Government Publications Office.
    ``(b)(1) Upon the death, resignation, or separation from office of 
the disbursing officer, his accounts may be continued, and payments and 
collection may be made in his name, by any individual designated as a 
deputy disbursing officer by the Administrator, for a period of time 
not to extend beyond the last day of the second month following the 
month in which the death, resignation, or separation occurred. Accounts 
and payments shall be allowed, audited, and settled, and checks signed 
in the name of the former disbursing officer by a deputy disbursing 
officer shall be honored in the same manner as if the former disbursing 
officer had continued in office.
    ``(2) A former disbursing officer of the Government Publications 
Office or his estate may not be subject to any legal liability or 
penalty for the official accounts or defaults of the deputy disbursing 
officer acting in the name or in the place of the former disbursing 
officer. Each deputy disbursing officer is responsible for accounts 
entrusted to him under paragraph (1) of this subsection, and the deputy 
disbursing officer is liable for any default occurring during his 
service under such paragraph.
    ``(c)(1) The Administrator may designate in writing officers and 
employees of the Government Publications Office to certify vouchers for 
payment from appropriations and funds. Such officers and employees 
shall (A) be responsible for the existence and correctness of the facts 
recited in the certificate or other voucher or its supporting papers 
and for the legality of the proposed payment under the appropriation or 
fund involved, (B) be responsible and accountable for the correctness 
of the computations of certified vouchers, and (C) be accountable for, 
and required to make restitution to, the United States for the amount 
of any illegal, improper, or incorrect payment resulting from any 
false, inaccurate, or misleading certificate made by him, as well as 
for any payment prohibited by law or which did not represent a legal 
obligation under the appropriation or fund involved. However, the 
Comptroller General of the United States, may, at his discretion, 
relieve such certifying officer or employee of liability for any 
payment otherwise proper whenever he finds that (i) the certification 
was based on the official records and that such certifying officer or 
employee did not know, and by reasonable diligence and inquiry could 
not have ascertained, the actual facts, or (ii) when the obligation was 
incurred in good faith, the payment was not contrary to any statutory 
provision specifically prohibiting payments of the character involved, 
and the United States has received value for such payment. The 
Comptroller General shall relieve such certifying officer or employee 
of liability for an overpayment for transportation services made to any 
common carrier covered by section 3726 of title 31, whenever he finds 
that the overpayment occurred solely because the administrative 
examination made prior to payment of the transportation bill did not 
include a verification of transportation rates, freight 
classifications, or land grant deductions.
    ``(2) The liability of such certifying officers or employees shall 
be enforced in the same manner and to the same extent as provided by 
law with respect to the enforcement of the liability of disbursing and 
other accountable officers. Such certifying officers and employees 
shall have the right to apply for and obtain a decision by the 
Comptroller General on any question of law involved in a payment on any 
vouchers presented to them for certification.
``Sec. 306. Revolving Fund for operation of Government Publications 
              Office
    ``(a) The revolving fund established July 1, 1953, hereafter 
referred to as the `Revolving Fund', is available without fiscal year 
limitation for the operation and maintenance of the Government 
Publications Office, including--
            ``(1) rental of buildings; attendance at meetings; 
        maintenance and operation of the emergency room; employee 
        training; uniforms or uniform allowances; and, repairs and 
        minor alterations to buildings;
            ``(2) any costs associated with audits performed in 
        accordance with this Act;
            ``(3) all expenses incurred by the Superintendent of 
        Government Publications Access Programs for the production of, 
        or procurement for the production of, Government publications 
        found to be in violation of requirements of chapter 19, as 
        authorized by that chapter; and
            ``(4) all receipts received through a transfer by the 
        Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with chapter 19 and 
        credited to the accounts of the Superintendent of Government 
        Publications Access Programs.
    ``(b) The Revolving Fund shall be reimbursed for the cost of all 
services and supplies furnished the Government Publications Office and 
credited with all receipts including sales of printing, print 
procurement and related publications production services, waste, 
condemned and surplus property, with payments received for losses or 
damage to property, and with receipts received through a transfer by 
the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with chapter 19.
    ``(c) The Administrator shall segregate the Revolving Fund into 
separate accounts under the authority of the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Production and Procurement Services and the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs and all 
expenses and reimbursements of costs of the respective Superintendents 
shall be accounted for within the Revolving Fund. The Administrator 
shall ensure that the accounts are kept separate and that, to the 
greatest extent possible, net receipts of the respective 
Superintendent's programs shall be used for the benefit and enhancement 
of those programs, respectively.
    ``(d)(1) An adequate system of accounts for the Revolving Fund 
shall be maintained on the accrual method, and financial reports 
prepared on the basis of accepted accounting standards. The 
Administrator shall prepare and submit an annual business-type budget 
for this fund which shall include the programs and activities of the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Production and Procurement 
Services and the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs. This budget program shall be considered and enacted as 
prescribed by section 9104 of title 31.
    ``(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), for the purposes of section 
8147 of title 5, United States Code, the Government Publications Office 
is not considered an agency which is required by statute to submit an 
annual budget pursuant to or as provided by chapter 91 of title 31.
    ``(e)(1) The Administrator shall prepare annual financial 
statements meeting the requirements of section 3515(b) of title 31. The 
financial statements shall be audited each year in accordance with 
applicable generally accepted Government auditing standards by an 
independent external auditor selected by the Administrator, with the 
concurrence of the Inspector General of the Government Publications 
Office, or by the Inspector General of the Government Publications 
Office.
    ``(2) For purposes of the audits, the Inspector General shall have 
such access to the records, files, personnel, and facilities of the 
Government Publications Office as the Inspector General considers 
appropriate. The Inspector General shall furnish reports of the audits 
to Congress and the Administrator.
    ``(3) The Comptroller General of the United States may audit the 
financial statements at his or her discretion or at the request of 
Congress. An audit by the Comptroller General shall be in lieu of the 
audit required under subsection (d).
    ``(4) The costs associated with the performance of an audit 
conducted in accordance with this section shall be paid from receipts 
in the Revolving Fund credited to the accounts of the Administrator.
``Sec. 307. Payments for printing, binding, blank paper, supplies, and 
              publications production services
    ``(a) An agency of the Federal Government ordering printing, 
binding, blank paper, supplies, or other publications production 
services from the Government Publications Office shall pay promptly by 
the most efficient means available, including electronic funds 
transfer, to the Administrator or the Administrator's designee, upon 
his written request, either in advance or upon completion of the work, 
all or part of the estimated or actual cost, as the case may be. Bills 
rendered by the Administrator, or the Administrator's designee, are not 
subject to audit or certification in advance of payment. Adjustments on 
the basis of the actual cost of delivered work paid for in advance 
shall be made monthly or quarterly and as may be agreed by the 
Administrator and the agency concerned.
    ``(b)(1) The Administrator shall present a bill or advice of 
payment to an agency for which the Government Publications Office has 
performed work no later than 90 days after work has been completed.
    ``(2) The agency shall pay the Government Publications Office with 
funds obligated during the fiscal year in which the order was placed.
    ``(3) For congressional orders which are in process 90 days before 
Congress adjourns, the Administrator will consult with the appropriate 
office to determine whether the work will be completed before Congress 
adjourns. The Administrator will bill for the cost of work completed 
for all jobs that are still in process on the date that Congress 
adjourns within 45 days after adjournment. The succeeding Congress must 
submit requisitions to the Government Publications Office to authorize 
completion of any job ordered by the prior Congress.
``Sec. 308. Procurement authority
    ``(a) Purchases may be made by the Administrator without reference 
to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 
concerning purchases for the Federal Government.
    ``(b)(1) Publications production regulations administered by the 
Government Publications Office shall govern the procurement of 
publications production services at the Government Publications Office.
    ``(2) Any agency that intends to procure publications production 
services through the Government Publications Office or for that agency 
under a delegation of authority granted by the Administrator, shall 
post a notice of such intent on a centralized notification system 
maintained by the Superintendent of Government Publications Production 
and Procurement Services that is electronically accessible.
    ``(c) The Administrator may prescribe such regulations, policies, 
and directives, not inconsistent with the provisions of this section, 
to carry out this section relating to the Government Publications 
Office.
    ``(d)(1) The Administrator may delegate and authorize successive 
redelegation of any procurement authority vested in the Administrator 
to any official in the Government Publications Office, or any official 
in any agency seeking authority for the procurement of services unless 
the Administrator determines the Government Publications Office is not 
able or suitably equipped to execute or as may be more economically or 
in the better interest of Government executed elsewhere. Such 
delegation or redelegation of procurement authority shall be in 
accordance with this chapter and chapter 19.
    ``(2)(A) No delegation, or redelegation, of authority under this 
section shall be granted by the Administrator until final regulations 
providing for the requirements of any such delegation, or redelegation, 
of authority are issued.
    ``(B) Regulations under subparagraph (A) shall require that--
            ``(i) an agency may not contract for production of services 
        with another agency or a private sector commercial source 
        unless that entity has been certified by the Administrator as 
        having met the requirements of this title, including the notice 
        requirement of chapters 5 and 19, and remains certified during 
        the course of the procurement contract;
            ``(ii) the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
        Programs be a signatory to the procurement contract, or that 
        the Superintendent otherwise certifies that a memorandum of 
        understanding has been agreed to by the procuring agency 
        establishing the requirements to be met for the Federal 
        publications access program; and
            ``(iii) the requirements of subsection (b) shall be met.
    ``(3) All delegations of authority for the procurement of printing, 
publications services, and the manufacture of Government publications 
regardless of form or format shall be done in conformance to this 
chapter and chapters 5 and 19.
    ``(e)(1) Except as provided in subsections (f) and (g) and except 
in the case of procurement procedures otherwise expressly authorized by 
statute, the Administrator, in conducting a procurement for property or 
services--
            ``(A) shall obtain full and open competition through the 
        use of competitive procedures in accordance with the 
        requirements of this section; and
            ``(B) shall use the competitive procedure or combination of 
        competitive procedures that is best suited under the 
        circumstances of the procurement.
    ``(2) In determining the competitive procedures appropriate under 
the circumstances, the Administrator--
            ``(A) shall solicit sealed bids if--
                    ``(i) time permits the solicitation, submission, 
                and evaluation of sealed bids;
                    ``(ii) the award will be made on the basis of price 
                and other price-related factors;
                    ``(iii) it is not necessary to conduct discussions 
                with the responding sources about their bids; and
                    ``(iv) there is a reasonable expectation of 
                receiving more than 1 sealed bid; and
            ``(B) shall request competitive proposals if sealed bids 
        are inappropriate under subparagraph (A).
    ``(f) In addition to the authority otherwise provided by law, the 
Administrator may use procedures other than competitive procedures only 
if--
            ``(1) the property or services needed by the Government are 
        available from only 1 responsible source and no other type of 
        property or services will satisfy the needs of the Government;
            ``(2) the Government's need for the property or services is 
        of such an unusual and compelling urgency that the Government 
        would be seriously injured unless the Administrator is 
        permitted to limit the number of sources from which the 
        Government Publications Office solicits bids or proposals;
            ``(3) a statute expressly authorizes a specified source; 
        and
            ``(4) the Administrator determines that it is necessary in 
        the public interest to use procedures other than competitive 
        procedures in the particular procurement concerned.
    ``(g)(1) In order to promote efficiency and economy in contracting 
and to avoid unnecessary burdens for the Government and contractors, 
the regulations issued, in accordance with this section, shall provide 
for special simplified procedures for small purchases of property and 
services.
    ``(2) For the purposes of this section, a small purchase is a 
purchase or contract for an amount which does not exceed the small 
purchase threshold.
    ``(3) A proposed purchase or contract for an amount greater than 
the small purchase threshold may not be divided into several purchases 
or contracts for lesser amounts in order to use the small purchase 
procedures required under paragraph (1).
    ``(4) In using small purchase procedures, the Administrator shall 
promote competition to the maximum extent practicable.
    ``(5) In this subsection, the term `small purchase threshold' has 
the meaning given such term by regulations issued by the Administrator 
under subsection (c).
``Sec. 309. Machinery, material, equipment, or supplies from other 
              Government agencies
    ``Agencies having machinery, material, equipment, or supplies for 
printing, binding, and blank-book work, including lithography, 
photolithography, xerography, and other processes of reproduction, no 
longer required or authorized for service, shall submit a detailed 
report of such material, equipment, or supplies to the Administrator. 
The Administrator may requisition such articles as are serviceable in 
the Government Publications Office, and such articles shall be promptly 
delivered to the Government Publications Office.
``Sec. 310. Inks, glues, and other supplies furnished to other 
              Government agencies: payment
    ``Inks, glues, and other supplies manufactured by the Government 
Publications Office in connection with its work may be furnished to 
departments and other establishments of the Government upon 
requisition, and payment made from appropriations available.
``Sec. 311. Branches of Government Publications Office: limitations
    ``Money appropriated by any Act may not be used for maintaining 
more than 1 branch of the Government Publications Office in any 1 
building occupied by an executive department of the Government, and a 
branch of the Government Publications Office may not be established 
unless specifically authorized by law.
``Sec. 312. Detail of employees of Government Publications Office to 
              other Government establishments
    ``An employee of the Government Publications Office may not be 
detailed to duties not pertaining to the work of the Government 
Publications Office in an executive department or other Government 
establishment unless expressly authorized by law.
``Sec. 313. Government Publications Office security
    ``(a) The Administrator, or delegate appointed by the 
Administrator, may designate employees of the Government Publications 
Office to serve as special policemen to protect persons and property in 
premises and adjacent areas occupied by or under the control of the 
Government Publications Office.
    ``(b) Under regulations to be prescribed by the Administrator, 
employees designated as special policemen are authorized to bear and 
use arms in the performance of their duties, make arrest for violations 
of laws of the United States, the several States, and the District of 
Columbia, and enforce the regulations of the Administrator, including 
the removal from Government Publications Office premises of individuals 
who violate such regulations.
    ``(c) The jurisdiction of special policemen in premises occupied by 
or under the control of the Government Publications Office and adjacent 
areas shall be concurrent with the jurisdiction of the respective law 
enforcement agencies where the premises are located.
``Sec. 314. Transfer of surplus property
    ``Notwithstanding title II of the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 481 et seq.), the 
Administrator may transfer or donate surplus and condemned Government 
Publications Office machinery, material, equipment, and supplies, and 
surplus Government publications to--
            ``(1) other Federal entities;
            ``(2) any organization described in section 501(c)(3) of 
        the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax under 
        section 501(a) of such Code; or
            ``(3) State or local governments.
``Sec. 315. Sales of reproducibles
    ``The Administrator shall sell to persons who may apply, 
publication production reproducibles, regardless of form or format, 
from which a Government publication is produced at a price not to 
exceed the cost to the Government, as determined by the Administrator.
``Sec. 316. Use of Federal advisory committees
    ``(a) The Administrator may establish such advisory committees as 
the Administrator determines appropriate.
    ``(b)(1) All meetings of such advisory committee(s) shall be open 
to the public, except when the Administrator determines that the 
meeting or any portion of the meeting shall be closed to the public 
consistent with the provisions of section 552(b) of title 5 and only 
after a \2/3\ vote of the advisory committee(s).
    ``(2) All meetings of any advisory committee established by the 
Administrator shall be preceded by timely public notice in the Federal 
Register of the time, place, and subject of the meeting.
    ``(3) Minutes of each meeting shall be kept and shall contain a 
record of the people present and a description of the discussion that 
occurred. The minutes and records of all such meetings and other 
documents that were made available to or prepared for an advisory 
committee established by the Administrator shall be made publicly 
accessible, unless the Administrator determines that a record or any 
portion of such record, shall not be publicly disclosed, consistent 
with the provisions of section 552(b) of title 5 and only after a \2/3\ 
vote of the advisory committee.''.
    (b)(1) Government Printing Office; Abolished.--The Government 
Printing Office is hereby abolished and the authorities, 
responsibilities, and functions of the Government Printing Office on 
the day before the effective day of title II are hereby transferred to 
the Government Publications Office.
    (2) The Government Publications Office is hereby established as an 
independent establishment in the Federal government.
    (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 1 year after the effective 
date of this Act, the Administrator shall submit a report to the 
Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee 
on House Oversight of the House of Representatives on--
            (1) the status of the Government Publications Office 
        established under chapter 3 of title 44, United States Code;
            (2) the expected developments in the Office; and
            (3) specific recommendations for legislative proposals, as 
        appropriate.
    (d) Transfer.--All duties, authorities, responsibilities, and 
functions of the Public Printer of the Government Printing Office on 
the day before the effective date of this title shall be performed by 
the Administrator of the Government Publications Office, on and after 
such date.
    (e) References.--References in any other Federal law, Executive 
order, rule, regulation, or delegation of authority, or any document of 
or relating to--
            (1) the Government Printing Office shall be deemed to refer 
        to the Government Publications Office;
            (2) the Public Printer shall be deemed to refer to the 
        Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
        Procurement Services or the Administrator, as appropriate;
            (3) the Office of the Public Printer shall be deemed to 
        refer to the Office of the Superintendent of Government 
        Publications Production and Procurement Services, or the Office 
        of the Administrator, as appropriate;
            (4) the Superintendent of Production Services shall be 
        deemed a reference to the Superintendent of Government 
        Publications Production and Procurement Services; and
            (5) the Superintendent of Access Programs shall be deemed a 
        reference to the Superintendent of Government Publications 
        Access Programs.
    (f) Transition.--
            (1) Incumbent.--
                    (A) In general.--The individual serving as the 
                Public Printer on the effective date of this title may 
                serve as Administrator, Government Publications Office, 
                until the President appoints by and with the advice and 
                consent of the Senate, a successor Administrator.
                    (B) Administrator.--The individual serving as the 
                Administrator pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall 
                perform all duties and responsibilities of the 
                Administrator, until the President appoints a successor 
                Administrator in accordance with section 301 of title 
                44, United States Code, as amended by this Act.
            (2) Appointment.--
                    (A) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the 
                effective date of this title, the President shall 
                appoint an Administrator of the Government Publications 
                Office in accordance with section 301 of title 44, 
                United States Code (as added by this Act).
            (3) Assets and property.--Assets and real property under 
        the control of, in use by, or assigned to the Public Printer on 
        the day before the effective date of this Act shall be under 
        the control of the Administrator on the effective date of this 
        Act for the use of the Administrator and the Acting 
        Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs for 
        purposes of implementing this Act.
            (4) Personnel.--Personnel under the supervision of or 
        assigned to the Public Printer on the day before the effective 
        date of this Act shall be under the supervision or assigned to 
        the Administrator or the acting Superintendent of Government 
        Publications Access Programs, pursuant to subsection (g) of 
        Title IV, on the effective date of this Act for purposes of 
        implementing this Act.
    (g) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of chapters for 
title 44, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating 
to chapter 3 and inserting the following:

``3. Government Publications Office.........................     301''.

TITLE III--GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS OFFICE; PUBLICATIONS PRODUCTION AND 
                    PRODUCTION PROCUREMENT SERVICES

SEC. 301. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS OFFICE; PUBLICATIONS PRODUCTION AND 
              PRODUCTION AND PROCUREMENT SERVICES.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 5 of title 44, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:

 ``CHAPTER 5--GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS OFFICE; PUBLICATIONS PRODUCTION 
                        AND PROCUREMENT SERVICES

``Sec.
``501. Government Publications produced by or procured through the 
                            Government Publications Office.
``502. Government Publications Office; Superintendent of Government 
                            Publications Production and Procurement 
                            Services: appointment; duties; and pay.
``503. Printing in veterans' hospitals.
``504. Regulations for procurement of Government publications 
                            production services.
``505. Time for printing documents or reports which include 
                            illustrations or maps.
``506. Orders for printing and publications production services to be 
                            acted upon within 1 year.
``507. Standards for papers used in Government publications.
``508. Annual plans for Government publications.
``Sec. 501. Government Publications produced by or procured through the 
              Government Publications Office
    ``(a)(1) The Government Publications Office is authorized to 
produce or procure the production of Government publications, 
regardless of form or format, including Government publications created 
for or transmitted through an electronic communications system or 
network, as requisitioned by Congress, Federal agencies and the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs.
    ``(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and subject to 
subsection (b), the Government Publications Office shall be the only 
authorized agency of the Federal Government to provide for Congress, 
the Executive Office of the President, the judiciary (other than the 
Supreme Court of the United States) and every Executive department and 
independent establishment of the Government, publications production 
and procurement services except--
            ``(A) those publications created only for dissemination 
        through an electronic communications system or network, 
        provided that the requirements of chapter 19 are satisfied;
            ``(B) individual production orders by the executive branch 
        costing not more than $1,000, if the work is not of a 
        continuing or repetitive nature, and as certified by the 
        Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
        Procurement Services if the work is included in a class of work 
        which cannot be provided more economically through the 
        Government Publications Office, if the requirements of chapter 
        19 are satisfied; and
            ``(C) publications production for the Central Intelligence 
        Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, or the National 
        Security Agency.
    ``(b)(1) Under delegation of authority from the Administrator in 
accordance with section 308, an agency of the executive or judicial 
branch may procure publications production and procurement services for 
that agency, if the agency certifies to the Administrator or the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Production and Procurement 
Services that the agency is in full compliance with the requirements of 
this chapter, chapter 19, and the publications production and 
procurement services regulations administered by the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Production and Procurement Services.
    ``(2) The Administrator shall promptly notify the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Production and Procurement Services and the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs of any 
decision to delegate authority under this section.
    ``(3) A delegation of authority to an agency under this section 
shall not be granted unless and until the Department of the Treasury 
has established a designated budget account for the agency in 
accordance with section 1906(a).
    ``(4) In determining a delegation of authority under this section, 
the Administrator shall take into account any prior determinations of 
noncompliance issued against an agency under section 1906.
    ``(c) No agency shall procure publications production services for 
another agency, except for those publications created only for 
dissemination through an electronic communications system or network, 
unless expressly authorized by law enacted after the effective date of 
the Government Publications Reform Act of 1998.
    ``(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no agency may 
participate in a partnership or alliance, public or private, to produce 
Government publications, or enter into a contract or cooperative 
agreement or similar contractual arrangement for the production, 
procurement, or dissemination of a Government publication, regardless 
of form or format, unless such action complies with chapter 19 and is 
approved in advance by the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Access Programs.
``Sec. 502. Government Publications Office; Superintendent of 
              Government Publications Production and Procurement 
              Services: appointment; duties; and pay
    ``(a) The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services (who may also be referred to as the 
`Superintendent of Production Services') shall be appointed by the 
President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for a term 
of 5 years.
    ``(b) The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services shall be appointed without regard to political 
affiliation, and solely on the basis of professional qualifications to 
perform the duties and responsibilities of the office.
    ``(c) An individual may be appointed to more than 1 term as 
Superintendent of Government Publications Production and Procurement 
Service.
    ``(d)(1) The Superintendent of Government Publications Production 
and Procurement Services, under the direction of the Administrator, 
shall take all steps considered necessary to carry out the duties and 
powers of the office and to remedy neglect, delay, duplication, or 
waste in the provision and procurement of services required to produce 
the Federal Government's publications, regardless of form or format.
    ``(2) To the greatest extent feasible, the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Production and Procurement Services shall 
operate the production and procurement services program on a self-
sustaining basis.
    ``(3) The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services shall promptly notify the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Access Programs of any contract for the 
production or procurement of production services of any Government 
publication so that the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Access Programs may meet the requirements of chapter 19.
    ``(e) The Administrator shall transfer to the authority of the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Production and Procurement 
Services, such personnel within the Government Publications Office as 
the Administrator shall determine are required by the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Production and Procurement Services to perform 
the duties of this chapter.
    ``(f) The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services shall be paid an annual rate of pay equal to the 
rate payable for a position at level IV of the Executive Schedule under 
section 5315 of title 5.
    ``(g)(1) There shall be a Deputy Superintendent of Government 
Publications Production and Procurement Services, who shall be 
appointed by the Superintendent of Government Publications Production 
and Procurement Services.
    ``(2) The Deputy Superintendent of Government Publications 
Production and Procurement Services shall perform--
            ``(A) all duties and responsibilities assigned by the 
        Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
        Procurement Services; and
            ``(B) the duties and responsibilities of the Superintendent 
        of Government Publications Production and Procurement Services 
        in the event of--
                    ``(i) a vacancy in the office of the Superintendent 
                of Government Publications Production and Procurement 
                Services; or
                    ``(ii) incapacity of the Superintendent of 
                Government Publications Production and Procurement 
                Services.
    ``(3) In the event of a vacancy under paragraph (2), the Deputy 
Superintendent of Government Publications Production and Procurement 
Services shall serve until a successor Superintendent of Government 
Publications Production and Procurement Services is appointed and 
qualifies, but for no longer than 1 year after a vacancy occurs.
    ``(4) The Deputy Superintendent of Government Publications 
Production and Procurement Services shall be paid at an annual rate of 
pay equal to the rate payable for a position on the Senior Executive 
Service under section 5316 of title 5.
    ``(h)(1) There shall be established within the Revolving Fund of 
the Government Publications Office under section 306 an account, or 
accounts, under the authority of the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Production and Procurement Services to be available 
without fiscal year limitation for the operation of the Government 
Publications Office Publications Production and Procurement Services 
programs, including--
            ``(A) rental of buildings;
            ``(B) attendance at meetings;
            ``(C) employee training;
            ``(D) purchase, maintenance, and operation of required 
        equipment, supplies, and contracts; and
            ``(E) salaries and expenses of program employees.
    ``(2) The Revolving Fund shall be reimbursed and the account, or 
accounts, of the Superintendent of Production Services shall be 
credited for the cost of all services and supplies furnished, including 
those furnished by other appropriations of the Government Publications 
Office Publications Production and Procurement Services programs, and 
credited with all receipts, including the provision of production and 
publication production procurement services, waste, condemned and 
surplus property, and with payments received for losses or damage to 
property.
    ``(3)(A) An adequate system of accounts for the Revolving Fund 
shall be maintained on the accrual method, and financial reports 
prepared on the basis of accepted accounting standards in accordance 
with section 306. The Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs shall prepare and submit to the Administrator an annual 
business-type budget for the accounts under the Superintendent's 
authority within the Revolving Fund. The budget program shall be as 
prescribed by section 9104 of title 31.
    ``(B) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), for purposes of section 
8147 of title 5, the activities of the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs are not considered activities that are 
required by statute to submit an annual budget pursuant to or as 
provided by chapter 91 of title 31.
``Sec. 503. Printing in veterans' hospitals
    ``(a) Notwithstanding section 501, the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs may use the equipment described in subsection (b) for printing 
and binding that the Secretary finds advisable for the use of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs.
    ``(b) The equipment referred to in subsection (a) is the printing 
and binding equipment that the various hospitals and homes of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs use for occupational therapy.
``Sec. 504. Regulations for procurement of Government publications 
              production services
    ``(a) The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services shall promulgate and administer regulations 
governing the procurement of publications production services through 
the Government Publications Office in accordance with chapters 3 and 
19.
    ``(b)(1) All such regulations shall be promulgated in accordance 
with the requirements of section 553 and section 556 of title 5, United 
States Code, and the requirements of chapter 7, United States Code.
    ``(2) All such regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with 
chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, and notwithstanding section 
804(2), all such regulations promulgated shall be treated as a `major 
rule'.
``Sec. 505. Time for printing documents or reports which include 
              illustrations or maps
    ``A document or report to be illustrated or accompanied by maps may 
not be printed by the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Production and Procurement Services until the illustrations or maps 
designed for it are ready for publication.
``Sec. 506. Orders for printing and publications production services to 
              be acted upon within 1 year
    ``An order for production or procurement of publications services 
may not be acted upon by the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Production and Procurement Services after the expiration of 1 year 
unless the entire copy and illustrations for the work have been 
furnished within that period.
``Sec. 507. Standards for papers used in Government publications
    ``The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services shall establish appropriate standards for printing 
and writing papers to be used in all Government publications and may 
procure said papers under procedures established pursuant to section 
308. Such standards are to detail the Government's minimum needs for 
each type and grade of paper in such a way as to allow the use of as 
many existing commercially available papers as practical, and to 
provide maximum economy to the public. These standards shall be 
published periodically and shall be known as the `Government Paper 
Specification Standards'.
``Sec. 508. Annual plans for Government publications
    ``(a) On the date that the head of each agency that intends to 
produce or procure the production of Government publications submits an 
appropriation request under section 1108 of title 31 for the 
preparation of the budget, the head of such agency shall submit a plan 
on the creation, management, dissemination, security, and accessibility 
of the Government publications of the agency.
    ``(b) A plan submitted under subsection (a) shall enumerate--
            ``(1) the number of publications that the agency intends to 
        produce or procure in the fiscal year, and the quantity of each 
        publication;
            ``(2) the intention of the agency to--
                    ``(A) produce the publication itself; or
                    ``(B) procure the publication's production either--
                            ``(i) on its own, pursuant to a delegation 
                        of authority granted under section 501; or
                            ``(ii) through the Government Publications 
                        Office;
            ``(3) the intended means by which each publication will be 
        disseminated and made permanently accessible to the public, 
        including the agency's intentions to comply with chapter 19; 
        and
            ``(4) the anticipated cost, including materials and 
        personnel, required for the production, procurement, 
        dissemination, security, and permanent accessibility of each 
        publication.
    ``(c) Plans required under this section shall be submitted as 
follows:
            ``(1) Agencies of the executive branch and independent 
        establishments shall submit such plans and reports to the 
        Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Committee 
        on Rules and Administration of the Senate, the Committee on 
        House Oversight of the House of Representatives, and the 
        Administrator of the Government Publications Office.
            ``(2) Agencies of the legislative branch shall submit such 
        plans and reports to the Committee on Rules and Administration 
        of the Senate, the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
        Representatives, and the Administrator of the Government 
        Publications Office.
            ``(3) Agencies of the judicial branch, except the Supreme 
        Court, shall submit such plans and reports to the Director of 
        the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, the 
        Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, the 
        Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives, 
        and the Administrator of the Government Publications Office.''.
    (b) Transition.--
            (1) Superintendent of government production and procurement 
        services.--The individual serving as Administrator pursuant to 
        subsection (f) of title II of this Act shall perform all duties 
        and responsibilities of the Superintendent of Government 
        Publications Production and Procurement Service as provided in 
        chapter 5, title 44, United States Code, as amended by this 
        Act, until a Superintendent of Government Publications 
        Production and Procurement Services is appointed by and with 
        the advice and consent of the Senate under Sec. 502.
            (2) Appointment.--Not later than 180 days after the 
        effective date of this Act, the President shall appoint a 
        Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
        Procurement Services in accordance with Sec. 502, title 44, 
        United States Code, as amended by this Act.
    (c) Report and 5-Year Plan.--
            (1) Plan.--Not later than 180 days after the effective date 
        of this title, each agency shall submit a report that contains 
        a plan, to be implemented during the 5-year period following 
        such effective date, that--
                    (A) reduces the publications production capacity, 
                if any, of the agency;
                    (B) sets dates, during such 5-year period, on which 
                incremental stages of such reduction will be 
                implemented; and
                    (C) provides for publications production performed 
                by the agency to be performed by non-Federal entities 
                pursuant to contracts, with appropriate protections to 
                ensure compliance with requirements of chapter 19 of 
                title 44, United States Code, regarding dissemination 
                and permanent accessibility of Government publications.
            (2) Compliance.--On October 1 of each of the 5 fiscal years 
        following the submission date of reports under paragraph (1), 
        each agency shall submit a report on the compliance of the 
        agency with the plan submitted under paragraph (1).
            (3) Submission.--Reports under this subsection shall be 
        submitted in accordance with section 508 of title 44, United 
States Code (as amended by this section).
    (d) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of chapters for 
title 44, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating 
to chapter 5 and inserting the following:

``5. Government Publications Office; Publications Production     501''.
                            and Procurement Services.

SEC. 302. PRODUCTION OF PUBLICATIONS AND PROCUREMENT OF PUBLICATIONS 
              SERVICES BY CONGRESS AND LEGISLATIVE AGENCIES.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 7 of title 44, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:

  ``CHAPTER 7--PRODUCTION AND PROCUREMENT OF PUBLICATIONS SERVICES BY 
                   CONGRESS AND LEGISLATIVE AGENCIES

``Sec.
``701. `Usual number' of bills, resolutions, documents, and reports; 
                            distribution of the House of 
                            Representatives and the Senate documents 
                            and reports; reports on private bills; 
                            number of copies printed; distribution.
``702. Style, form, and manner of publication.
``703. Printing extra copies.
``704. Reprinting bills, laws, and reports from committees.
``705. Duplicate orders to print.
``706. Bills and resolutions: style and form.
``707. Bills and resolutions: binding sets for Congress.
``708. Public and private laws and treaties.
``709. Copies of Acts furnished to the Superintendent of Government 
                            Publications Production and Procurement 
                            Services.
``710. Printing Acts, joint resolutions, and treaties.
``711. Journals of the Houses of Congress.
``712. Printing documents for Congress in 2 or more editions.
``713. Printing of documents not provided by law.
``714. Appropriation chargeable for printing of document or report by 
                            order of Congress.
``715. Lapse of authority to print.
``716. Classification and numbering of publications ordered printed by 
                            Congress; designation of publications of 
                            departments; printing of committee 
                            hearings.
``717. Senate and House Manuals.
``718. Congressional Directory.
``719. Congressional Directory: sale.
``720. Memorial addresses: preparation; distribution.
``721. Statement of appropriations: `usual number'.
``722. Printing for committees of Congress.
``723. Committee reports: indexing and binding.
``724. United States Statutes at Large: distribution.
``725. United States Statutes at Large: references in margins.
``726. Distribution of documents to Members of Congress.
``727. Allotments of public documents printed after expiration of terms 
                            of Members of Congress: rights of reelected 
                            and retiring Members to documents.
``728. Documents and reports ordered by Members of Congress: franks and 
                            envelopes for Members of Congress.
``729. Stationery and blank books for Congress.
``730. Binding for Members of Congress.
``731. Binding at expense of Members of Congress.
``732. Binding for Senate library and House of Representatives library.
``733. Distribution of Senate and House documents to Members.
``734. Publications stored at Capitol.
``735. Congressional printing and binding appropriations; 
                            authorization.
``Sec. 701. `Usual number' of bills, resolutions, documents, and 
              reports; distribution of the House of Representatives and 
              the Senate documents and reports; reports on private 
              bills; number of copies printed; distribution
    ``(a) The order by either House of Congress to print a bill, 
resolution, 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) At the beginning of each Congress, the `usual number' shall 
be jointly established by the Committee on Rules and Administration of 
the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
Representatives, but in no case shall the usual number be less than 1 
and the `usual number' shall be sufficient to provide copies for 
binding and distribution as follows:
            ``(1) Of the House of Representatives bills, resolutions, 
        documents, and reports, unbound--
                    ``(A) to the Senate document room for distribution 
                to each Senator, committees, and for other purposes;
                    ``(B) to the office of the Secretary of the Senate;
                    ``(C) to the Clerk of the House of Representatives 
                for distribution to each Member of the House of 
                Representatives, committees, and for other purposes; 
                and
                    ``(D) to fulfill standing orders and such other 
                requirements authorized by law.
            ``(2) Of the Senate bills, resolutions, documents, and 
        reports, unbound--
                    ``(A) to the Senate document room for distribution 
                to each Senator, committees, and for other purposes;
                    ``(B) to the office of the Secretary of the Senate;
                    ``(C) to the Clerk of the House of Representatives 
                for distribution to each Member of the House of 
                Representatives, committees, and for other purposes; 
                and
                    ``(D) to fulfill standing orders and such other 
                requirements authorized by law.
    ``(c) Of the number printed, the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Production and Procurement Services shall bind a 
sufficient number of copies for distributions as follows:
            ``(1) Of the House of Representatives bills, resolutions, 
        documents, and reports, bound--
                    ``(A) to the Senate Library;
                    ``(B) to the library of the House of 
                Representatives; and
                    ``(C) to fulfill standing orders and such other 
                requirements authorized by law, except those designated 
                Federal publications access libraries which may prefer 
                to have documents in unbound form, and have so notified 
                the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
                Programs in writing prior to the convening of each 
                Congress.
            ``(2) Of the Senate bills, resolutions, documents, and 
        reports, bound--
                    ``(A) to the Senate library;
                    ``(B) to the library of the House of 
                Representatives; and
                    ``(C) to fulfill standing orders and such other 
                requirements authorized by law, except those designated 
                Federal publications access libraries entitled to 
                documents that may prefer to have documents in unbound 
                form, and have so notified the Superintendent of 
                Government Publications Access Programs in writing 
                prior to the convening of each Congress.
    ``(d) Of Senate reports on private bills, concurrent or simple 
resolutions there shall be printed sufficient numbers of copies for 
distribution--
            ``(1) to the Senate document room for distribution to each 
        Senator, committees, and for other purposes;
            ``(2) to the office of the Secretary of the Senate;
            ``(3) to the Clerk of the House of Representatives for 
        distribution to each Member of the House of Representatives, 
        committees, and for other purposes; and
            ``(4) to fulfill standing orders and such other 
        requirements authorized by law.
    ``(e) Of House of Representatives reports on private bills, 
concurrent or simple resolutions there shall be printed sufficient 
numbers of copies for distribution--
            ``(1) to the Senate document room for distribution to each 
        Senator, committees, and for other purposes;
            ``(2) to the office of the Secretary of the Senate;
            ``(3) to the Clerk of the House of Representatives for 
        distribution to each Member of the House of Representatives, 
        committees, and for other purposes; and
            ``(4) to fulfill standing orders and such other 
        requirements authorized by law.
    ``(f) Until the `usual number' is established for a Congress under 
this section, the `usual number' of publications, as established in the 
immediately preceding Congress, shall remain in effect.
    ``(g) This section does not prevent the binding of all Senate and 
House of Representatives reports in the reserve volumes bound for and 
delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives libraries, nor 
abridge the right of the Vice President, Senators, Representatives, 
Resident Commissioner, Delegates, Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of 
the House of Representatives to have bound in half morocco, or a 
durable material not more expensive, 1 copy of every public document to 
which he may be entitled. Copies of each report on bills for payment or 
adjudication of claims against the Government shall be kept on file in 
the Senate document room.
    ``(h) Each private bill of the Senate and each private bill of the 
House of Representatives shall be printed when introduced, when 
reported, and when passed. Bills and resolutions shall be printed in 
bill form, and, unless specially ordered by either House shall be 
printed only when referred to a committee, when favorably reported 
back, and after their passage by either House.
    ``(i) Reports of committees shall be produced by requisition on the 
order of the originating committee, and the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Production and Procurement Services shall 
provide to the committee a voucher for the cost of the order.
``Sec. 702. Style, form, and manner of publication
    ``(a)(1) Publications for Single House.--At the beginning of each 
Congress, the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and 
the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives shall 
determine the style, form, and manner of printing for any publication 
authorized by simple resolution under this title for their respective 
Houses.
    ``(2) Joint Publications.--At the beginning of each Congress, the 
style, form, and manner of printing for any publication authorized by 
joint or concurrent resolution under this title shall be determined 
jointly by the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and 
the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives.
    ``(3) Congressional Record.--At the beginning of each Congress, the 
style, form, and manner of printing for the Congressional Record, all 
bills and other congressional publications shall be determined by the 
Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee 
on House Oversight of the House of Representatives, acting jointly.
    ``(b) Continuation of Style, Form, and Manner.--Until the style, 
form, and manner of printing publications is established for a Congress 
under this section, the style, form, and manner of printing 
publications as established in the immediate previous Congress shall 
remain in effect.
``Sec. 703. Printing extra copies
    ``(a) Orders for printing copies in addition to the `usual number' 
otherwise provided for by this section shall be by simple, concurrent, 
or joint resolution. Either House may print no more than 300 extra 
copies by simple resolution.
    ``(b) If the number exceeds that amount, the printing shall be 
ordered by concurrent resolution, unless the resolution is self-
appropriating, when it shall be by joint resolution.
    ``(c) Resolutions, when presented to either House, shall be 
referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate or 
the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives, who, 
in making their report, shall require of the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Production and Procurement Services the 
estimate of cost. Extra copies may not be printed before the committee 
has reported. The Superintendent of Government Publications Production 
and Procurement Services shall provide the committees a voucher for the 
total cost of the order.
``Sec. 704. Reprinting bills, laws, and reports from committees
    ``When the supply is exhausted, the Secretary of the Senate, under 
the direction of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration of 
the Senate, and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, under the 
direction of the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
Representatives may order the reprinting of not more than 300 copies of 
a pending bill, resolution, or public law, or a report from a committee 
or congressional commission on pending legislation not accompanied by 
testimony or exhibits or other appendices.
``Sec. 705. Duplicate orders to print
    ``If the Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services receives duplicate Senate and House of 
Representatives orders for printing, the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Production and Procurement Services shall consult with the 
Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee 
on House Oversight of the House of Representatives to determine the 
appropriate order for printing.
``Sec. 706. Bills and resolutions: style and form
    ``Subject to sections 205 and 206 of title 1, the Committee on 
Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House 
Oversight of the House of Representatives may authorize the printing of 
a bill or resolution, with index and ancillaries, in the style and form 
such committees consider most suitable in the interest of economy and 
efficiency, and to so continue until final enactment in both Houses of 
Congress. The committees may also curtail the number of copies of bills 
or resolutions, including the slip form of a public Act or public 
resolution, consistent with section 701.
``Sec. 707. Bills and resolutions: binding sets for Congress
    ``Four sets of Senate and House of Representatives bills and joint 
and concurrent resolutions of each Congress, 2 for the Senate and 2 for 
the House of Representatives, shall be bound by the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Production and Procurement Services and kept by 
the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of 
Representatives for reference.
``Sec. 708. Public and private laws and treaties
    ``The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services shall print in slip form copies of public and 
private laws, and treaties, to be paid from funds appropriated for 
congressional printing and binding. The Committee on Rules and 
Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of 
the House of Representatives shall control the number and distribution 
of copies.
``Sec. 709. Copies of Acts furnished to the Superintendent of 
              Government Publications Production and Procurement 
              Services
    ``The Archivist of the United States shall furnish to the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Production and Procurement 
Services a copy of every Act and joint resolution, as soon as possible 
after its approval by the President, or after it has become a law under 
the Constitution without his approval.
``Sec. 710. Printing Acts, joint resolutions, and treaties
    ``The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services on receiving from the Archivist of the United 
States a copy of an Act or joint resolution, or from the Secretary of 
State, a copy of a treaty, shall print an accurate copy and transmit it 
in duplicate to the Archivist of the United States or to the Secretary 
of State, as the case may be, for revision. On the return of 1 of the 
revised duplicates, the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Production and Procurement Services shall make the marked corrections 
and print the number specified by section 707.
``Sec. 711. Journals of the Houses of Congress
    ``There shall be printed of the Journals of the Senate and House of 
Representatives such copies as determined by the Committee on Rules and 
Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of 
the House of Representatives at the beginning of each Congress for 
distribution to--
            ``(1) the Senate document room for distribution to 
        Senators;
            ``(2) the Senate library;
            ``(3) the office of the Secretary of the Senate;
            ``(4) the Clerk of the House of Representatives for 
        distribution to Members and for other purposes;
            ``(5) the library of the House of Representatives; and
            ``(6) fulfill standing orders and such other requirements 
        authorized by law.
``Sec. 712. Printing documents for Congress in 2 or more editions
    ``The Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the 
Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives, acting 
jointly, shall establish rules by which public documents and reports 
printed for Congress, or either House, may be printed in 2 or more 
editions, to meet public requirements.
``Sec. 713. Printing of documents not provided by law
    ``Either House may order the printing of a document not already 
provided for by law, when accompanied by an estimate from the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Production and Procurement 
Services as to the probable cost. An agency of the executive or 
judicial branch of the Government submitting reports or documents in 
response to inquiries from Congress shall include an estimate of the 
probable cost of printing the documents in the usual number.
``Sec. 714. Appropriation chargeable for printing of document or report 
              by order of Congress
    ``The cost of printing of a document or report printed by order of 
Congress, which, under section 1107, cannot be properly charged to 
another appropriation or allotment of appropriation already made, upon 
order of Congress, shall be charged to the allotment of appropriation 
for printing and binding for Congress.
``Sec. 715. Lapse of authority to print
    ``The authority to print a document or report, or a publication 
authorized by law to be printed, for distribution by Congress, shall 
lapse within 2 years after the date of the original order, except 
orders for subsequent editions, approved by Congress.
``Sec. 716. Classification and numbering of publications ordered 
              printed by Congress; designation of publications of 
              departments; printing of committee hearings
    ``(a) Publications ordered by Congress, or either House, regardless 
of form or format, shall be in 4 series that shall include--
            ``(1) a series of reports made by the committees of the 
        Senate, to be known as Senate reports;
            ``(2) a series of reports made by the committees of the 
        House of Representatives, to be known as House reports;
            ``(3) a series of documents other than reports of 
        committees, the orders for printing which originate in the 
        Senate, to be known as Senate documents; and
            ``(4) a series of documents other than committee reports, 
        the orders for printing which originate in the House of 
        Representatives, to be known as House documents.
    ``(b) The Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and 
the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives are 
jointly responsible for compilation and distribution of the bound 
United States congressional serial set which shall be numbered 
consecutively from the first Congress onward and shall include the 
reports and documents of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
    ``(c)(1)(A) The publications in each series shall be consecutively 
numbered, the numbers in each series continuing in unbroken sequence 
throughout the entire term of a Congress, but these provisions do not 
apply to the documents published for the use of the Senate in executive 
session.
    ``(B) Such serial sets shall be made available as provided under 
chapter 19 for distribution and permanent public access by the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs.
    ``(C) The copies of annual or serial publications originating in or 
prepared by an executive department, bureau, office, commission, or 
board which are intended for distribution to designated Federal 
publications access libraries may not be numbered in the document or 
report series of either House of Congress, but shall be designated by 
title, bound, and made available as provided under chapter 19, and the 
departmental edition, if any, shall be printed concurrently.
    ``(2) The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services shall supply the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs with sufficient copies of publications 
distributed in unbound form, to be bound and distributed to the 
designated Federal publications access libraries for their permanent 
files. Every publication of sufficient size on any 1 subject shall be 
bound separately and receive the title suggested by the subject of the 
volume, and the others shall be distributed in unbound form as soon as 
printed. The library edition, as well as all other bound sets of 
congressional numbered documents and reports, shall be arranged in 
volumes and bound in the manner directed by the Committee on Rules and 
Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of 
the House of Representatives, acting jointly.
    ``(c) Hearings of committees may be printed as congressional 
documents only when specifically ordered by Congress or by either 
House.
``Sec. 717. Senate and House Manuals
    ``Each House may order printed as many copies as that House 
desires, of the Senate Manual and of the Rules and Manual of the House 
of Representatives.
``Sec. 718. Congressional Directory
    ``(a) There shall be prepared under the direction of the Committee 
on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House 
Oversight of the House of Representatives a Congressional Directory, 
which shall be printed and distributed as early as practicable during 
the first session of each Congress.
    ``(b) The Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and 
the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives, 
acting jointly, shall control content, the number and distribution of 
the Congressional Directory, and shall determine the manner in which 1 
copy of the Congressional Directory shall be bound for distribution to 
each Member of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
    ``(c) The directory also shall be maintained in electronic format 
and accessible to the public through the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs on-line service. The directory shall be 
updated at least quarterly, and the date of revision shall be noted.
``Sec. 719. Congressional Directory: sale
    ``The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs may 
offer copies of the current Congressional Directory for sale at a price 
sufficient to reimburse the costs of printing consistent with section 
1708. Revenue derived from the sales shall be deposited to the account 
of the Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs in the 
Revolving Fund of the Government Publications Office to offset the cost 
of the Publications sales program.
``Sec. 720. Memorial addresses: preparation; distribution
    ``(a) After the final adjournment of Congress, there shall be 
compiled and bound in cloth in 1 volume the exercises at the general 
memorial services held in either House during each session relative to 
the death of a Member of Congress or Senator, a former Member of 
Congress who served as Speaker, together with all relevant memorial 
addresses and eulogies published in the Congressional Record during the 
same session of Congress, and any other matter the Committee on Rules 
and Administration of the Senate considers relevant to a Senator or any 
other matter the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
Representatives considers relevant to a Member of Congress or former 
Member of Congress who served as Speaker; and there shall be printed--
            ``(1) 50 copies delivered to the family of the deceased; 
        and
            ``(2) 100 copies for the successor in office of a deceased 
        Senator, Representative, Resident Commissioner or Delegate.
``Sec. 721. Statement of appropriations: `usual number'
    ``Of the statements of appropriations required to be prepared under 
the Act of October 19, 1888 (2 U.S.C. 105), there shall be printed, 
after the close of each regular session of Congress, the usual number, 
as provided by section 701.
``Sec. 722. Printing for committees of Congress
    ``A committee of Congress may not procure the printing of more than 
300 copies of a hearing, or other document germane thereto, for its use 
except by simple, concurrent, or joint resolution, as provided by 
section 702.
``Sec. 723. 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 
Houses copies of all reports made by committees, and at the close of 
each session of Congress shall have the reports indexed and bound, 1 
copy to be deposited in the library of each House and 1 copy in the 
committee from which the report emanates.
``Sec. 724. United States Statutes at Large: distribution
    ``(a) The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services, after the final adjournment of each regular 
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 Committee on Rules and Administration of the 
Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
Representatives shall control the number and distribution of the 
copies. Senators and Representatives who request in writing in advance 
of its publication shall receive copies of such document.
    ``(b) The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services shall print and, after the end of each calendar 
year, bind and deliver to the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Access Programs a number of copies of the United States Treaties and 
Other International Agreements not exceeding the number of copies of 
the United States Statutes at Large required for distribution in the 
manner provided by chapter 19 of this title.
``Sec. 725. United States Statutes at Large: references in margins
    ``The Archivist of the United States shall include 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 approval of the Act 
at the beginning of each Act as printed beginning with volume 32 of the 
United States Statutes at Large.
``Sec. 726. Distribution of documents to Members of Congress
    ``Unless provided elsewhere in law, the Committee on Rules and 
Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of 
the House of Representatives shall determine the quantity and 
distribution of documents to the Members, committees, and offices of 
their respective Houses.
``Sec. 727. Allotments of public documents printed after expiration of 
              terms of Members of Congress: rights of reelected and 
              retiring Members to documents
    ``(a) The congressional allotment of Government publications, other 
than the Congressional Record, printed after the expiration of the term 
of office of the Vice President of the United States, or Senator, 
Representative, or Resident Commissioner, shall be delivered to his 
successor in office, unless such individual takes the documents prior 
to the 30th day of June next following the date of expiration.
    ``(b) Reelected and retiring Members may distribute public 
documents to their credit, or the credit of their respective districts 
during their successive terms, until their rights to frank documents 
ends.
    ``(c) Unless provided elsewhere in law, the disposition of 
Government publications allotted and distributed to Members during 
their terms of office shall be governed by rules established by the 
Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee 
on House Oversight of the House of Representatives for their respective 
Houses.
``Sec. 728. Documents and reports ordered by Members of Congress: 
              franks and envelopes for Members of Congress
    ``(a) The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services, on order of a Member of Congress and prepayment 
of the cost, may reprint documents and reports of committees together 
with the evidence papers submitted, or any part ordered printed by 
Congress.
    ``(b) The Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and 
the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives shall 
establish for their respective Houses rules governing the style, 
content, quantity, printing, distribution, and method of payment to the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Production and Procurement 
Services for franks printed on sheets and perforated, or singly, and 
envelopes used for mailing public documents. Franks may also contain 
information relating to missing children as provided in section 3220 of 
title 39.
    ``(c) The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services shall deposit moneys accruing under this section 
to the Government Publications Office Revolving Fund as provided in 
section 502.
``Sec. 729. Stationery and blank books for Congress
    ``(a) Upon requisition of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk 
of the House of Representatives, respectively, the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Production and Procurement Services shall 
furnish stationery, blank books, tables, forms, and other necessary 
papers preparatory to congressional legislation, required for the 
official use of the Senate and the House of Representatives, or their 
committees and officers.
    ``(b) The Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and 
the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives shall 
establish for their respective Houses rules governing the method of 
payment to the Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services for such papers.
    ``(c) The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services shall deposit moneys accruing under this section 
to the Government Publications Office Revolving Fund as provided in 
section 502.
    ``(d) This section does not prevent the purchase by the officers of 
the Senate and House of Representatives of stationery and blank books 
necessary for sale to Senators and Members in the stationery rooms of 
the 2 Houses as provided by law.
``Sec. 730. Binding for Members of Congress
    ``The Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the 
Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives shall 
establish rules regarding the binding needs of their respective 
Members.
``Sec. 731. Binding at expense of Members of Congress
    ``The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services may bind at the Government Publications Office 
books, maps, charts, or documents published by authority of Congress 
upon application of a Member of Congress, and payment of the actual 
cost of binding. The Superintendent of Government Publications 
Production and Procurement Services shall deposit moneys accruing under 
this section to the Government Publications Office Revolving Fund as 
provided in section 502.
``Sec. 732. Binding for Senate library and House of Representatives 
              library
    ``The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of 
Representatives may make requisition upon the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Production and Procurement Services for the 
binding of books for the library of their respective Houses, subject to 
the approval of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate 
and the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives, 
respectively.
``Sec. 733. Distribution of Senate and House documents to Members
    ``The Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the 
Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives, 
respectively, shall determine appropriate mechanisms for the 
distribution of congressional documents to the Members of each House.
``Sec. 734. Publications stored at Capitol
    ``(a) The Secretary and Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and the 
Clerk and Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives, at the 
convening in regular session of each successive Congress, shall cause 
an inventory to be made of Government publications stored in and about 
the Capitol, other than those in the allotment of Members of Congress, 
in the Library of Congress and the Senate and House libraries and 
document rooms.
    ``(b) The Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and 
the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives shall 
determine the disposition of this inventory, save 4 copies of leather-
bound publications which shall be reserved and carefully stored, to be 
used in supplying deficiencies in the Senate and House libraries caused 
by wear or loss.
``Sec. 735. Congressional printing and binding appropriation; 
              authorization
    ``Such sums are authorized to be appropriated as may be 
necessary.''.
    (b) Feasibility Report.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 2 years after the effective 
        date of this Act, the General Accounting Office on behalf of 
        the Administrator of the Government Publications Office shall 
        submit to the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 
        Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
        Representatives a report on the feasibility of legislative 
        branch agencies procuring printing and publications services 
        directly from nongovernmental sources under a delegation of 
        authority from the Administrator of the Government Publications 
        Office, if such agencies certify to the Superintendent of 
        Government Publications Access Programs and the Superintendent 
        of Government Publications Production and Procurement Services 
        full compliance with the requirements of chapters 5 and 19 of 
        title 44, United States Code.
            (2) Contents.--The report submitted under this section 
        shall include--
                    (A) an analysis of the impact of allowing 
                legislative branch agencies to procure directly from 
                nongovernmental sources, on the procedures and 
                precedents of each House of Congress and on the 
                integrity of congressional publications;
                    (B) a study of the impact on the ability of the 
                Government Publications Office to continue to function 
                as a central procurement agency for the executive, 
                legislative, and judicial branches (exclusive of the 
                Supreme Court) of Government; and
                    (C) recommendations for the assurance of 
                information security, convenience, quality, economy, 
                and efficiency in the procurement of printing services 
                for all legislative branch agencies.
    (c) Serial Set Feasibility Study.--Not later than 24 months after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs, in consultation with the Federal 
Publications Access Library Council, shall prepare and submit to the 
Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee 
on House Oversight of the House of Representatives a report with 
recommendations on the feasibility of producing, disseminating, and 
maintaining permanent public access to the serial sets described under 
section 715 as publications created for or transmitted through an 
electronic communications system or network.
    (d) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--The table of chapters for 
title 44, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating 
to chapter 7 and inserting the following:

``7. Production of Publications and Procurement of               701''.
                            Publications Services by 
                            Congress and Legislative 
                            Agencies.

SEC. 303. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.

    Chapter 9 of title 44, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows:

                   ``CHAPTER 9--CONGRESSIONAL RECORD

``Sec.
``901. Congressional Record: arrangement, style, contents, and indexes.
``902. Congressional Record: indexes.
``903. Congressional Record: daily and permanent forms.
``904. Congressional Record: maps; diagrams; illustrations.
``905. Congressional Record: additional insertions.
``906. Congressional Record: gratuitous copies; delivery.
``907. Congressional Record: extracts for Members of Congress; mailing 
                            envelopes.
``908. Congressional Record: payment for printing extracts or other 
                            documents.
``909. Congressional Record: subscriptions; sale of current, individual 
                            numbers, and bound sets; postage rate.
``Sec. 901. Congressional Record: arrangement, style, contents, and 
              indexes
    ``(a) The Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and 
the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives, 
acting jointly, shall control the arrangement and style of the 
Congressional Record, and while providing that it shall be 
substantially a verbatim report of proceedings, shall take all needed 
action for the reduction of its size.
    ``(b) An index of the Congressional Record shall be published 
semimonthly during and at the close of sessions of Congress.
``Sec. 902. Congressional Record: indexes
    ``(a) The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services shall prepare the semimonthly and the session 
index to the Congressional Record. The Committee on Rules and 
Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of 
the House of Representatives, acting jointly, shall direct the form and 
manner of its publication and distribution.
    ``(b) Those persons employed in the Congressional Record Index 
Office on the effective date of the Government Publications Reform Act 
of 1998 shall be employees of the Government Publications Office 
subject to the provisions of this title governing selection, 
appointments, employment in the Government Publications Office, and any 
regulations thereunder.
``Sec. 903. Congressional Record: daily and permanent forms
    ``The public proceedings of each House of Congress as reported by 
the Official Reporters, shall be published in the Congressional Record, 
which shall be issued daily during each session and shall be revised, 
printed, and bound in permanent form subject to section 714 of this 
title. The daily and the permanent Record shall bear the same date, 
which shall be that of the actual day's proceedings reported. The 
`usual number' of the Congressional Record may not be printed.
``Sec. 904. Congressional Record: maps; diagrams; illustrations
    ``Maps, diagrams, or illustrations may not be inserted in the 
Congressional Record without the approval of the Committee on Rules and 
Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of 
the House of Representatives, for their respective Houses.
``Sec. 905. Congressional Record: additional insertions
    ``The Secretary of the Senate, acting under the direction of the 
Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, and the Clerk of 
the House of Representatives, acting under the direction of the 
Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives, shall 
cause to be published in the daily Record the legislative program for 
the day together with a list of congressional committee meetings and 
hearings and the place of meeting and subject matter. Such committees 
shall cause a brief resume of congressional activities for the previous 
day to be incorporated in the Record, together with an index of its 
contents prepared under the supervision of the Secretary of the Senate 
and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively.
``Sec. 906. Congressional Record: gratuitous copies; delivery
    ``(a) At the direction of the Committee on Rules and Administration 
of the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
Representatives, jointly, the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Production and Procurement Services shall furnish the Congressional 
Record as follows:
            ``(1) Of the bound edition--
                    ``(A) not more than 1 copy to the Vice President;
                    ``(B) not more than 1 copy to those Senators and 
                Members of Congress who so request in writing prior to 
                its publication;
                    ``(C) not more than 1 copy each to the Secretary 
                and the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, if so requested 
                in writing prior to its publication;
                    ``(D) not more than 1 copy each to the Clerk of the 
                House of Representatives and the House Sergeant at 
                Arms;
                    ``(E) not more than 2 copies each to the libraries 
                of the Senate and House of Representatives, 
                respectively;
                    ``(F) a number, to be determined and held by the 
                Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and 
                the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
                Representatives, acting jointly, for the use by each 
                House, respectively;
                    ``(G) to fulfill standing orders and such other 
                requirements authorized by law; and
                    ``(H) the Federal Publications Access Libraries, in 
                such numbers as the Superintendent of Government 
                Publications Access Programs shall determine.
            ``(2) Of the daily edition--
                    ``(A) in such numbers as shall be determined at the 
                beginning of each Congress by the Committee on Rules 
                and Administration of the Senate and the Committee on 
                House Oversight of the House of Representatives, acting 
                jointly--
                            ``(i) to the Vice President;
                            ``(ii) to the Senate document room for 
                        distribution to each Senator, committees, and 
                        for other purposes;
                            ``(iii) to the offices of the Secretary of 
                        the Senate and Senate Sergeant at Arms;
                            ``(iv) to the Clerk of the House of 
                        Representatives for distribution to each Member 
                        of the House of Representatives, committees, 
                        and for other purposes and to the House 
                        Sergeant at Arms; and
                            ``(v) to fulfill standing orders and such 
                        other requirements authorized by law;
                    ``(B) to the Vice President and each Senator and 
                Representative in Congress (nontransferable) 2 copies 
                of which 1 shall be delivered at his office, and 1 at 
                the Capitol; and
                    ``(C) the Federal Publications Access Libraries, in 
                such numbers as the Superintendent of Government 
                Publications Access Programs shall determine.
    ``(b) In addition to the foregoing, the Congressional Record and 
the semimonthly index shall also be furnished in such numbers as shall 
be determined at the beginning of each Congress by the Committee on 
Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House 
Oversight of the House of Representatives, acting jointly, but in no 
case shall the usual number be less than 1 and the usual number shall 
be sufficient to provide copies for distribution to--
            ``(1) the President;
            ``(2) Committees and Commissions of Congress;
            ``(3) the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the 
        Supreme Court;
            ``(4) the Marshall and Clerk of the Supreme Court;
            ``(5) the United States circuit and district courts and 
        their respective libraries;
            ``(6) the Tax Court of the United States and its library;
            ``(7) the Court of Veterans Appeals and its library;
            ``(8) the Office of the Congressional Record Index;
            ``(9) the Chaplain of the Senate;
            ``(10) the Postmaster of the Senate;
            ``(11) the Secretaries to the Majority and Minority of the 
        Senate;
            ``(12) the Office of the Parliamentarian of the Senate;
            ``(13) the Office of the Parliamentarian of the House of 
        Representatives;
            ``(14) the offices of the Official Reporters of Debate of 
        the Senate;
            ``(15) the offices of the Official Reporters of Debate of 
        the House of Representatives;
            ``(16) the office of the stenographers to committees of the 
        House of Representatives;
            ``(17) the offices of the superintendents of the Senate and 
        the House of Representatives Press Galleries;
            ``(18) the offices of the Legislative Counsel of the Senate 
        and the House of Representatives;
            ``(19) the Architect of the Capitol;
            ``(20) the libraries of the Senate and the House of 
        Representatives;
            ``(21) the library of the Supreme Court;
            ``(22) the library of the United States Court of Federal 
        Claims;
            ``(23) the library of the United States Court of 
        International Trade;
            ``(24) the Superintendent of Government Publications and 
        Procurement Services, for official use;
            ``(25) the Botanic Garden;
            ``(26) the Archivist of the United States;
            ``(27) the library of each Executive department and 
        independent establishment of the Government of the District of 
        Columbia (except those designated as Federal publications 
        access libraries) and the libraries of the municipal government 
        of the District of Columbia;
            ``(28) the Smithsonian Institution;
            ``(29) the Naval Observatory;
            ``(30) the Governors of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin 
        Islands;
            ``(31) former Presidents and former Vice Presidents of the 
        United States;
            ``(32) to each former Senator and Representative and 
        Resident Commissioners, upon written request;
            ``(33) to the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 
        Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
        Representatives;
            ``(34) the Governors of each State;
            ``(35) each of the separate establishments of the Armed 
        Services Retirement Homes, the National Homes for Disabled 
        Veterans, and the State Soldiers Homes;
            ``(36) the Federal Publications Access Libraries, in such 
        numbers as the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
        Programs shall determine;
            ``(37) the Department of State for United States Embassies 
        and Consular offices;
            ``(38) foreign legations in Washington, District of 
        Columbia, whose government extends a like courtesy to embassies 
        and legations of the United States abroad;
            ``(39) each accredited newspaper correspondent whose name 
        appears in the Congressional Directory;
            ``(40) the Court of Military Appeals and its library;
            ``(41) the United States Court of Federal Claims and its 
        library; and
            ``(42) the United States Customs Court and its library.
    ``(c) Copies of the daily edition, unless otherwise directed by the 
Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee 
on House Oversight of the House of Representatives, jointly, shall be 
supplied and delivered promptly on the day after the actual day's 
proceedings as originally published. Each order for the daily Record 
shall begin with the current issue, if previous issues of the same 
session are not available. The apportionment specified by the 
committees jointly for daily copies may not be transferred for the 
bound form and an allotment of daily copies not used by a Member during 
a session shall lapse when the session ends.
``Sec. 907. Congressional Record: extracts for Members of Congress; 
              mailing envelopes
    ``The Superintendent of Government Publications Production and 
Procurement Services may print and deliver, upon the order of a Member 
of Congress and payment of the cost, extracts from the Congressional 
Record. Provision of envelopes for the mailing of such extracts shall 
be governed by sections 727 and 728.
``Sec. 908. Congressional Record: payment for printing extracts or 
              other documents
    ``If a Member or Resident Commissioner fails to pay the cost of 
printing extracts from the Congressional Record or other Government 
publications ordered by him to be printed, the Administrator shall 
certify the amount due to the Financial Clerk of the Senate or the 
Chief Accounting Officer of the House of Representatives, as the case 
may be, who shall deduct from the Member's office account the 
delinquent amount, and pay the amount so obtained to the Administrator, 
to be applied by the Administrator to the satisfaction of the 
indebtedness.
``Sec. 909. Congressional Record: subscriptions; sale of current, 
              individual numbers, and bound sets; postage rate
    ``(a) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
may sell--
            ``(1) subscriptions to the Congressional Record; and
            ``(2) current, individual numbers, and bound sets.
    ``(b) The price of the subscription shall be determined by the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs and shall be 
sufficient to cover the cost of publishing and distributing the 
Congressional Record in accordance with section 1708. Such price shall 
be paid in advance and the receipts from any such sale shall be 
deposited into the account of the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs within the Revolving Fund of the 
Government Publications Office.
    ``(c) The Congressional Record shall be entitled to be mailed at 
the same rates of postage at which any newspaper or other periodical 
publication, with a legitimate list of paid subscribers, is entitled to 
be mailed.''.

SEC. 304. PRODUCTION OF PUBLICATIONS AND PROCUREMENT OF PUBLICATIONS 
              SERVICES; LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT.

    (a) Approval of Printing Certain Documents.--Section 1108 of title 
44, United States Code, is amended by striking ``, subject to 
regulations by the Joint Committee on Printing,''.
    (b) Ordering of Documents for Executive Agency Use.--Section 1110 
of title 44, United States Code, is amended by striking the last 
sentence and inserting the following: ``Publications ordered under this 
section shall be paid in advance and the receipts from any such sale 
shall be deposited into the account of the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs within the Revolving Fund of the 
Government Publications Office.
    (c) Annual Reports.--
            (1) In general.--Section 1112 of title 44, United States 
        Code is repealed.
            (2) Technical and conforming amendment.--The table of 
        sections for chapter 11 of title 44, United States Code, is 
        amended by striking the item relating to section 1112.
    (d) Annual Reports: Number of Copies for Congress.--Section 1114 of 
title 44, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 1114. Annual reports: number of copies for Congress
    ``At the beginning of each Congress, the Committee on Rules and 
Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of 
the House of Representatives, respectively, shall establish the number 
of annual reports of the departments to Congress to be printed for the 
use of each House.''.
    (e) Paper and Envelopes.--Section 1121 of title 44, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``, under direction of the Joint Committee 
        on Printing,'';
            (2) by striking ``sections 509-516 of this title'' and 
        inserting ``section 507''; and
            (3) by striking ``the District of Columbia'' and inserting 
        ``the national capital region''.
    (f) References to Superintendent of Government Publications 
Production and Procurement Services.--Chapter 11 of title 44, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Public Printer'' each place it appears 
        and inserting ``Superintendent of Government Publications 
        Production and Procurement Services''; and
            (2) in section 1108, by striking ``Superintendent of 
        Documents'' and inserting ``Superintendent of Government 
Publications Production and Procurement Services''.

SEC. 305. PARTICULAR GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 13 of title 44, United States Code, is 
repealed.
    (b) Table of Chapters.--The table of chapters for title 44, United 
States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to chapter 13.
    (c) Effective Date.--This section shall become effective 120 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 306. COSTS OF PRODUCING REGULATORY PUBLICATIONS.

    Section 1509 of title 44, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows:
``Sec. 1509. Cost of publication, etc.
    ``(a) The cost of printing, reprinting, wrapping, binding, and 
distributing the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations, 
and, except as provided in subsection (b), other expenses incurred by 
the Government Publications Office in carrying out the duties placed 
upon it by this chapter shall be charged to the Revolving Fund provided 
in section 306, Reimbursements for such costs and expenses shall be 
made by the Federal agencies and credited, together with all receipts, 
as provided in section 306.
    ``(b) The cost of producing, reproducing, and distributing all 
other publications of the Federal Register program, and other expenses 
incurred in connection with such publications, shall be paid by the 
Archivist of the United States from appropriations authorized by 
Congress for purposes of this section.''.

SEC. 307. PUBLICATIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT.

    (a) In General.--Section 411 of title 28, United States Code is 
amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 411. Supreme Court reports; printing, binding, and distribution
    ``(a) The decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States shall 
be published and distributed in a manner and format determined by the 
Supreme Court as soon as practicable after rendition, and charged to 
the proper appropriation for the judiciary.
    ``(b) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall procure such copies of the publications of the Supreme Court in 
accordance with chapters 17 and 19 of title 44 and the Government 
Publications Reform Act of 1998.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 412 of title 28, United States Code, is 
        amended--
                    (A) by striking ``Public Printer'' and inserting 
                ``Superintendent of Government Publications Production 
                and Procurement Services''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Superintendent of Documents'' and 
                inserting ``Superintendent of Government Publications 
                Access Programs''.
            (2) Section 676(b) of title 28, United States Code, is 
        amended by striking ``Public Printer and the Superintendent of 
        Public Documents'' and inserting ``Administrator of the 
        Government Publications Office and the Superintendent of 
        Government Publications Access Programs''.

SEC. 308. REPEAL OF PROVISIONS EXEMPTING STATUTORY PUBLICATIONS 
              PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTION PROCUREMENT REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) Section 3(a)(6) of the Presidential Transition Act of 
        1963 (3 U.S.C. 102 note) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(6) Payment of expenses for necessary printing and 
        binding.''.
            (2) Section 4 of the Act of August 31, 1922 (7 U.S.C. 285) 
        is amended by striking ``without regard to section 501 of title 
        44, United States Code,''.
            (3) Section 101(f) of the Department of Agriculture Organic 
        Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 431) is amended by striking ``without 
        regard to existing laws applicable to public printing''.
            (4) Section 3(h) of the International Wheat Agreement Act 
        of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1642(h)) is amended by striking ``for 
        printing and binding,'' and inserting ``for printing and 
        binding, subject to the provisions of title 44, United States 
        Code,''.
            (5) Section 2(a)(1) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 
        (12 U.S.C. 635(a)(1)) is amended by striking ``without regard 
        to the provisions of section 501 of title 44, United States 
        Code, whenever the Bank determines that publication in 
        accordance with the provisions of such section would not be 
        practicable''.
            (6) Section 1 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1702) 
        is amended in the second sentence by striking ``, printing, and 
        binding''.
            (7) The Act entitled ``An Act to extend the time for 
        purchase and distribution of surplus agricultural commodities 
        for relief purposes and to continue the Federal Surplus 
        Commodities Corporation'', approved June 28, 1937 (15 U.S.C. 
        713c) is amended in the first proviso by striking ``, including 
        rent, printing and binding,'' and inserting ``(except printing 
and binding) including rent''.
            (8) Section 201(e)(1) of the Export Administration 
        Amendments Act of 1985 (15 U.S.C. 4051(e)(1)) is amended by 
        striking ``Notwithstanding the provisions of section 501 of 
        title 44, United States Code, and consistent'' and inserting 
        ``Consistent''.
            (9) Section 12 of the Tuna Conventions Act of 1950 (16 
        U.S.C. 961) is amended by striking clause (c) and redesignating 
        clauses (d) and (e) as clauses (c) and (d), respectively.
            (10) Section 2(b)(2) of the Act entitled ``An Act to 
        authorize the construction of a National Fisheries Center and 
        Aquarium in the District of Columbia and to provide for its 
        operation'', approved October 9, 1992 (16 U.S.C. 1052(b)(2)) is 
        amended by striking ``all or any of which may be reproduced by 
        any printing or other process without regard to existing 
        regulations,''.
            (11) Section 5(c) of the National Foundation on the Arts 
        and Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 954(c)) is amended by 
        striking the first sentence following clause (10).
            (12) Section 7(c) of the National Foundation on the Arts 
        and Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 956(c)) is amended by 
        striking the first sentence following clause (10).
            (13) Section 2 of the Act entitled ``An Act to authorize 
        the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with the Government 
        of Mexico in the control and eradication of foot-in-mouth 
        disease and rinderpest'', approved February 28, 1947 (21 U.S.C. 
        114c) is amended by striking ``without regard to section 87 of 
        the Act of January 12, 1895, or section 11 of the Act of March 
        1, 1919 (U.S.C. title 44, sec. 111).''.
            (14) Section 2(b)(1) of the joint resolution entitled 
        ``Joint Resolution providing for acceptance by the United 
        States of America of the Constitution of the International 
        Labor Organization Instrument of Amendment, and further 
        authorizing an appropriation for payment of the United States 
        share of the expenses of membership and for expenses of 
        participation by the United States'', approved June 30, 1948 
        (22 U.S.C. 272a(b)(1)) is amended by striking ``printing and 
        binding without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 
        1919 (44 U.S.C. 111), and section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, 
        as amended''.
            (15) Section 2(b) of the joint resolution entitled ``Joint 
        Resolution providing for membership and participation in the 
        Caribbean Commission and authorizing an appropriation 
        therefor'', approved March 4, 1948 (22 U.S.C. 280i(d)) is 
        amended by striking ``printing and binding without regard to 
        section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U.S.C. 111), and 
        section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended;''.
            (16) Section 2(b) of the joint resolution entitled ``Joint 
        Resolution providing for participation by the Government of the 
        United States in the Pan American Railway Congress, and 
        authorizing an appropriation therefor'', approved June 28, 1948 
        (22 U.S.C. 280k(b)) is amended by striking ``without regard to 
        section 501 of title 44, United States Code, and section 3709 
        of the Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 5);''.
            (17) Section 8 of the United Nations Participation Act of 
        1945 (22 U.S.C. 287e) is amended by striking ``without regard 
        to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1949 (44 U.S.C. 111);''.
            (18) Section 6(k) of the joint resolution entitled ``Joint 
        Resolution providing for membership and participation by the 
        United States in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, 
        and Cultural Organization, and authorizing an appropriation 
        therefor'', approved July 30, 1946 (22 U.S.C. 287r(k)) is 
        amended by striking ``without regard to section 11 of the Act 
        of March 1, 1919 (U.S.C., title 44, sec. 111), and section 3709 
        of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C. title 41, sec. 5);''.
            (19) Section 3(b)(1) of the joint resolution entitled 
        ``Joint Resolution providing for membership and participation 
        by the United States in the World Health Organization and 
        authorizing an appropriation therefor'', approved June 14, 1948 
        (22 U.S.C. 290b(b)(1)) is amended by striking ``without regard 
        to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U.S.C. 111), and 
        section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended;''.
            (20) Section 401(w) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 
        (22 U.S.C. 290f(w)) is amended by striking ``without regard to 
        section 501 of title 44, United States Code''.
            (21) Section 801(4) of the United States Information and 
        Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1471(4)) is amended 
        by striking ``, without regard to section 501 of title 44, 
        United States Code''.
            (22) Section 5 of the International Atomic Energy Agency 
        Participation Act of 1957 (22 U.S.C. 2024) is amended by 
        striking ``without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 
        1919 (44 U.S.C. 111);''.
            (23) Section 636(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
        (22 U.S.C. 2396(b)) is amended by striking ``without regard to 
        provisions of any other law''.
            (24) Section 15(a) of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 
        2514(a)) is amended by striking ``without regard to provisions 
        of any other law''.
            (25) Section 48 of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act (22 
        U.S.C. 2588) is amended by striking ``without regard to the 
        provisions of section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U.S.C. 
        111);''.
            (26) Section 5(a)(1) of the Migration and Refugee 
        Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2605(a)(1)) is amended by 
        striking ``without regard to provisions of any other law,''.
            (27) Section 2(a) of the State Department Basic Authorities 
        Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2669(a)) is amended by striking 
        ``without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 
        U.S.C. 111)''.
            (28) Section 23 of the Act of June 25, 1910 (25 U.S.C. 47; 
        33 Stat. 861) is amended by striking ``(including, but not 
        limited to printing, notwithstanding any other law)'' and 
        inserting ``(including printing)''.
            (29) Section 204(d)(3) of the Marine Resources and 
        Engineering Development Act of 1966 (33 U.S.C. 1123(d)(3)) is 
        amended by striking ``, without regard to section 501 of title 
        44, United States Code''.
            (30) Section 405(c)(4) of the Public Health Service Act (42 
        U.S.C. 284(c)(4)) is amended by striking ``without regard to 
        section 501 of title 44, United States Code''.
            (31) Section 11(g) of the National Science Foundation Act 
        of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1870(g)) is amended by striking ``, without 
        regard to the provisions of section 87 of the Act of January 
        12, 1895 (28 Stat. 622), and section 11 for the Act of March 1, 
        1919 (40 Stat. 1270; 44 U.S.C., sec. 111)''.
            (32) Section 9(k) of the Lower Mississippi Delta 
        Development Act (42 U.S.C. 3121 note; Public Law 100-460; 102 
        Stat. 2246) is amended by striking ``, notwithstanding any 
        other provision of law''.
            (33) Section 11(c) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance 
        Act (45 U.S.C. 361(c)) is amended by striking ``printing and 
        binding;''.
    (b) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect 120 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 309. ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO 
              CONGRESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS.

    (a) Printing of Enrolled Bills and Resolutions.--
            (1) In general.--Section 107 of title 1, United States 
        Code, is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 107. Printing of enrolled bills and resolutions
    ``Enrolled bills and resolutions of either House of Congress shall 
be printed in accordance with rules established by the respective 
Houses of Congress.''.
            (2) Technical and conforming amendment.--The table of 
        sections for chapter 2 of title 1, United States Code, is 
        amended by striking the item relating to section 107 and 
        inserting the following:

``107. Printing of enrolled bills and resolutions.''.
    (b) Code of Laws.--
            (1) In general.--Sections 211, 212, and 213 of title 1, 
        United States Code, are repealed.
            (2) Technical and conforming amendment.--The table of 
        sections for chapter 2 of title 1, United States Code, is 
        amended by striking the items relating to sections 211, 212, 
        and 213.
    (c) Precedents.--The joint resolution entitled ``A joint resolution 
to provide for the printing and distribution of the Precedents of the 
House of Representatives compiled and prepared by Lewis Deschler'', 
approved October 18, 1976 (2 U.S.C. 28b, 28c, 28d, and 28e) is 
repealed.
    (d) Constitution Annotated.--The first section of the joint 
resolution of December 24, 1970 (2 U.S.C. 168; Public Law 91-589; 84 
Stat. 1586) is amended to read as follows: ``That (a) The Director of 
the Congressional Research Service shall have prepared--
            ``(1) every 10 years, a hardbound revised edition of the 
        Constitution of the United States of America--Analysis and 
        Interpretation (hereafter referred to as the `Constitution 
        Annotated');
            ``(2) every 2 years in the interim period between decennial 
        editions, cumulative supplements to the most recent hardbound 
        decennial revised edition of the Constitution Annotated, which 
        shall contain cumulative analysis of decisions rendered by the 
        Supreme Court after the period covered by the last hardbound 
        decennial revised edition; and
            ``(3) an electronic version of the Constitution Annotated, 
        to be updated regularly.
    ``(b) The edition of the Constitution Annotated first prepared 
after the effective date of the Government Publications Reform Act of 
1998 shall contain analysis and interpretation of decisions rendered by 
the Supreme Court of the United States through the end of its October 
2001 term, construing provisions of the Constitution. Subsequent 
decennial revised editions will revise and update analysis to cover 
constitutional law developments during the then-most-recent 10 terms of 
the Supreme Court.''.
    (e) Official Territorial Papers.--
            (1) In general.--Section 145 of title 4, United States 
        Code, is repealed.
            (2) Technical and conforming amendments.--
                    (A) Redesignation.--Section 146 of title 4, United 
                States Code, is amended in the section heading by 
                striking ``Sec. 146.'' and inserting ``Sec. 145.''.
                    (B) Table of sections.--The table of sections for 
                chapter 5 of title 4, United States Code, is amended by 
                striking the items relating to sections 145 and 146 and 
                inserting the following:

``145. Authorization of appropriations.''.

      TITLE IV--OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS ACCESS PROGRAMS

SEC. 401. SHORT TITLE.

    This title may be cited as the ``Federal Publications Dissemination 
Act of 1998''.

SEC. 402. FEDERAL PUBLICATIONS ACCESS PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 19 of title 44, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:

           ``CHAPTER 19--FEDERAL PUBLICATIONS ACCESS PROGRAMS

``Sec.
``1901. Purpose.
``1902. Definition.
``1903. Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs.
``1904. Access to Government publications through the Superintendent of 
                            Government Publications; Superintendent 
                            responsibilities and authorities.
``1905. Access to Government publications through the Superintendent of 
                            Government Publications Access Programs: 
                            agency responsibilities and authorities.
``1906. Access to Government publications through the Superintendent of 
                            Government Publications Access Programs: 
                            compliance and enforcement: executive 
                            branch.
``1906a. Access to Government publications through the Superintendent 
                            of Government Publications Access Programs: 
                            compliance and enforcement: legislative 
                            branch.
``1906b. Access to Government publications through the Superintendent 
                            of Government Publications Access Programs: 
                            compliance and enforcement: judicial 
                            branch.
``1907. Permanent Public Access to Government publications.
``1908. Designation of Federal publications access libraries.
``1909. Regional Federal publications access libraries.
``1910. Federal publications access libraries: responsibilities.
``1911. Federal publications access libraries council.
``Sec. 1901. Purpose
    ``The purposes of this chapter are to--
            ``(1) broaden, strengthen, and enhance public access to all 
        Government publications regardless of form or format through 
        Federal Publications Access Programs; and
            ``(2) provide permanent public access to and ensure the 
        authenticity of Government publications regardless of form or 
        format.
``Sec. 1902. Definition
    ``In this title--
            ``(1) the term `agency' means--
                    ``(A) an executive department, government 
                corporation, government-controlled corporation, or 
                other establishment in the executive branch of the 
                Government, including--
                            ``(i) the Executive Office of the 
                        President; and
                            ``(ii) any independent regulatory agency; 
                        and
                    ``(B) an establishment or component of the 
                legislative branch as determined by the rules of the 
                Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, 
                or judicial branch of the Government;
            ``(2) the term `Federal publications access library' means 
        a library designated under section 1908 to participate in the 
        Federal Publications Access Programs; and
            ``(3) the term `Government publication'--
                    ``(A) means any information product or other 
                discrete set of Government information, regardless of 
                form or format, that--
                            ``(i) is created or compiled--
                                    ``(I) by the Government;
                                    ``(II) at Government expense in 
                                whole or in part; or
                                    ``(III) as required by law; and
                            ``(ii) an agency discloses, disseminates, 
                        or makes available to the public; and
                    ``(B) shall not include information that--
                            ``(i) is required for official use only or 
                        is for strictly internal administrative or 
                        operational purposes having no public interest 
                        or educational value; or
                            ``(ii) is classified for reasons of 
                        national security.
``Sec. 1903. Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs
    ``(a)(1) The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and 
consent of the Senate, for a term of 5 years, the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Access Programs (who may also be referred to as 
the `Superintendent of Access Programs').
    ``(2) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall be appointed without regard to political affiliation, and solely 
on the basis of professional qualifications to perform the duties and 
responsibilities of the office.
    ``(3) An individual may be appointed to more than 1 term as 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs.
    ``(b) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall serve under the direction of the Administrator and shall take 
charge of and manage the Federal Publications Access Programs including 
but not limited to the Federal publications access library program as 
provided in chapter 19, the Federal publications sales program as 
provided in chapter 17, and GPO ACCESS, as provided in chapter 41.
    ``(c)(1) In consultation with the Administrator of the Government 
Publications Office, the Office of Management and Budget, the 
Administrative Office of the United States Courts, the Committee on 
Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House 
Oversight of the House of Representatives, the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Access Programs may issue regulations, 
consistent with this title, that the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs considers necessary to carry out the 
duties and powers of the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Access Programs to enhance the dissemination of Government 
publications, and to expand and improve the maintenance of permanent 
public access to Government publications.
    ``(2) All such regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with 
the requirements of section 553 and section 556 of title 5, United 
States Code, and the requirements of chapter 7, United States Code.
    ``(3) All such regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with 
chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, and notwithstanding section 
804(2), all such regulations promulgated shall be treated as a `major 
rule'.
    ``(d) The annual rate of pay for the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs shall be a rate equal to the rate payable 
for a position at level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5314 
of title 5.
    ``(e)(1) There shall be a Deputy Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs, who shall be appointed by the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs.
    ``(2) The Deputy Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs shall perform--
            ``(A) all the duties and responsibilities assigned by the 
        Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs; and
            ``(B) the duties and responsibilities of the Superintendent 
        of Government Publications Access Programs in the event of--
                    ``(i) a vacancy in the office of the Superintendent 
                of Government Publications Access Programs; or
                    ``(ii) incapacity of the Superintendent of 
                Government Publications Access Programs.
    ``(3) The Deputy Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs shall be paid at an annual rate of pay equal to the rate 
payable for a position on the Senior Executive Service Schedule under 
section 5316 of title 5.
    ``(f)(1) There shall be established within the Revolving Fund of 
the Government Publications Office under section 306, an account, or 
accounts, under the authority of the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs to be available without fiscal year 
limitation for the operation of the Federal Publications Access 
Programs, including--
            ``(A) rental of buildings;
            ``(B) attendance at meetings;
            ``(C) employee training;
            ``(D) purchase, maintenance, and operation of required 
        equipment, supplies, and contracts; and
            ``(E) salaries and expenses of program employees.
    ``(2) The fund shall be reimbursed and the account, or accounts, of 
the Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs shall be 
credited--
            ``(A) for the cost of all services and supplies furnished, 
        including those furnished by other appropriations of the 
        Federal Publications Access Programs; and
            ``(B) with all receipts including sales of Government 
        publications, waste, condemned and surplus property, with 
        payments received for losses or damage to property, and with 
        funds retrieved from agencies for the procurement of or access 
        to publications not compliant with this title.
    ``(3)(A) An adequate system of accounts for the fund shall be 
maintained on the accrual method, and financial reports prepared on the 
basis of accepted accounting standards in accordance with section 306.
    ``(B)(i) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs shall prepare and submit to the Administrator an annual 
business-type budget for the accounts under his authority within the 
fund. This budget program shall be as prescribed by section 9104 of 
title 31.
    ``(ii) Notwithstanding clause (i), for the purposes of section 8147 
of title 5, the activities of the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs are not considered activities which are 
required by statute to submit an annual budget pursuant to or as 
provided by chapter 91 of title 31.
    ``(g) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are 
necessary for the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs for the salaries and expenses of the Federal Publications 
Access Programs, exclusive of the Government publications sales program 
under chapter 17.
``Sec. 1904. Access to Government publications through the 
              Superintendent of Government Publications; 
              Superintendent's responsibilities and authorities
    ``(a) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall use whatever measures are necessary to ensure the timely 
dissemination of Government publications to the public and to expand 
and improve the maintenance of permanent public access to Government 
publications. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Government 
publications of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches shall 
be made available at no charge to Federal publications access 
libraries.
    ``(b) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall certify on every contract for the production or procurement of 
any Government publications entered into by an agency--
            ``(1) the number of additional copies required by the 
        Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs for 
        its program; or
            ``(2) the terms and conditions, if any, for accessing 
        Government publications required by the Superintendent of 
        Government Publications Access Programs for its program.
    ``(c) For on-line, fee-based services, the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Access Programs shall negotiate terms and 
conditions for access by the Federal publications access programs based 
upon the incremental cost of providing access to the Federal 
publications access libraries. The Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs shall procure such access to ensure that 
the information needs of the user community are met at no charge to the 
Federal publications access libraries.
    ``(d)(1) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs shall provide selection, cataloging, classification, locator, 
and indexing services for all Government publications from the 
executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Services under this 
paragraph may be provided by the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs through cooperative agreements with 
Government agencies, or Federal publications access libraries.
    ``(2) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall create, maintain, and make available a comprehensive and timely 
catalog of Government publications, regardless of form or format, that 
shall be accessible to the Federal publications access libraries and 
the public.
    ``(3) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall create, maintain, and make available a locator, in accordance 
with chapter 41, of all Government publications. Such locator service 
shall identify, describe, and link users to Government publications 
available through Government electronic communications systems or 
accessible through public telecommunications networks.
    ``(4) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall consult with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 
the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the 
Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives, the 
Administrative Office of the United States Courts, and other agencies 
and offices to coordinate implementation of the requirements of section 
3511, with locator services required under this section.
    ``(5) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall create, maintain, and make available a current, categorized list 
of Government publications, including annotations of contents and item 
identification numbers, to facilitate the selection of, or access to 
those publications required by Federal publications access libraries.
    ``(6) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall prepare and produce a consolidated index of congressional 
documents and shall index single volumes of documents as the Committee 
on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House 
Oversight of the House of Representatives direct.
    ``(e)(1) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs shall adopt such regulations, in accordance with section 
1903(c), as are necessary to implement the requirements of this 
chapter. Such regulations shall include procedures for implementing 
this section and sections 1905, 1906, 1907, and 1911 to require the 
availability of Government publications, regardless of form or format, 
to the public through the programs of the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs. Such regulations shall reflect the needs 
of the user community and provide access to Government publications at 
no charge to the Federal publications access libraries.
    ``(2) Government publications made available by the Superintendent 
of Government Publications Access Programs may be chosen or accessed by 
Federal publications access libraries according to regulations and 
guidelines issued by the Superintendent of Government Publication 
Access Programs for such purposes.
    ``(3) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall coordinate with the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 
Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
Representatives, the Office of Management and Budget, and the 
Administrative Office of the United States Courts for the development 
and establishment of uniform policies and procedures relating to the 
dissemination of Government publications, including policies and 
procedures for ensuring authenticity, and of guidelines to facilitate 
permanent public access to and use of Government publications.
    ``(f) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall develop procedures, guidelines, and regulations under this 
section consistent with sections 1903(c) and 1907(f).
    ``(g) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall, after informing the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 
Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
Representatives, promulgate, through notice and comment, appropriate 
regulations governing the qualifications, process for selection, 
periodic inspection, collection maintenance, termination, and total 
number of Federal publications access libraries in accordance with 
sections 1903(c) and 1908.
``Sec. 1905. Access to Government publications through the 
              Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
              Programs: agency responsibilities and authorities
    ``(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each agency head 
of the executive branch, the Administrative Office of the Courts, on 
behalf of the judicial branch, and the Committee on Rules and 
Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of 
the House of Representatives, respectively, for each House of Congress, 
shall take such action as is necessary to ensure that all Government 
publications produced or procured for production by the agency are made 
available to the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs, as required by this chapter, for dissemination to the public 
through the Federal Publications Access Programs, at no charge to 
Federal publications access libraries.
    ``(b)(1) Each agency shall immediately notify the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Access Programs of the intent of the agency to 
produce or procure, substantially modify, or terminate the production 
of a Government publication, regardless of form or format, so that the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs may have 
access to Government publications created for or transmitted through 
electronic communications systems or networks, or to order Government 
publications at the incremental rate for the Federal publications 
access program.
    ``(2) Agencies intending to eliminate printed copies of Government 
publications and provide only electronic access to those publications, 
shall notify the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs at least 60 days in advance.
    ``(3) Any contract for the printing or procurement of any 
Government publication entered into by an agency shall contain a 
provision that--
            ``(A) certifies that the head of the agency, in the 
        executive branch, or the Director of the Administrative Office 
        of the United States Courts, in the judicial branch, has given 
        proper notification as prescribed in this section to the 
        Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
        before the awarding of the contract; and
            ``(B) includes--
                    ``(i) the number of additional copies required by 
                the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
                Programs for its program; or
                    ``(ii) any terms and conditions for accessing 
                Government publications required by the Superintendent 
                of Government Publications Access Programs for its 
                program.
    ``(4) Such certification shall require that the procuring official 
shall ensure before production that each contract for the procurement 
of Government publications contains verification of the notice to the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs required by 
this title.
    ``(c) Upon request of the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Access Programs, agencies shall promptly provide the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Access Programs with copies of, or access to, 
electronic files of any Government publication to which this section 
applies for purposes of--
            ``(1) producing appropriate format material for the 
        Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs; and
            ``(2) providing permanent public access, in accordance with 
        section 1907, to Government publications created for or 
        transmitted through an electronic communications system or 
        network under this section.
    ``(d)(1) No agency may delegate or contract for the creation, 
storage, reproduction, or dissemination of a Government publication, 
regardless of form or format, without providing in advance for the full 
content of that information to be made available to the Superintendent 
of Government Publications Access Programs, including the Federal 
publications access library program.
    ``(2) Each agency shall assure and provide permanent public access 
to Government publications created for or transmitted through an 
electronic communications system or network until a system for 
permanent public access to Government publications created for or 
transmitted through an electronic communications system or network is 
established by the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs, in accordance with section 1907.
    ``(e) Each agency shall provide the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs with a copy of, or access to any 
Government publication, created on or after the date of enactment of 
the Government Publications Reform Act of 1998, regardless of form or 
format, to enable the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs to perform mandated cataloging, locator, and indexing 
services, as provided by this section.
    ``(f) When an agency makes a publication available only as a 
Government database accessible on an electronic communications system 
or network, the agency shall furnish information about and access to 
that publication to the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Access Programs immediately for purposes of providing locator services 
only.
``Sec. 1906. Access to Government publications through the 
              Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
              Programs: compliance and enforcement: executive branch
    ``(a)(1) All Government publications, regardless of form or format, 
of the executive branch, as provided by this title, shall be made 
available at no charge to the Federal publications access libraries. 
The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs shall use 
any measures the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs considers necessary for the economical and practical 
implementation of this chapter to ensure the timely dissemination of 
Government publications to the public and to expand and improve the 
maintenance of permanent public access to Government publications, as 
provided by this chapter.
    ``(2)(A) Upon a determination by the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs that an agency has not complied with the 
requirements of this chapter, the Superintendent shall notify the 
Administrator.
    ``(B) If the Superintendent determines that a Government 
publication of an agency has not been made available to the Federal 
publications access libraries as provided by this chapter, the 
Superintendent shall--
            ``(i) use whatever measures are necessary to bring the 
        agency into compliance and secure access to the Government 
        publication; and
            ``(ii) certify to the Administrator the costs associated 
        with securing such access.
    ``(3) Upon the issuance of a final determination by the 
Superintendent that an agency has not complied with the provisions of 
this chapter, the Administrator shall certify to the agency and the 
Department of the Treasury the costs determined in accordance with 
subsection (a)(2). The Superintendent shall prepare a voucher for 
reimbursement of the certified costs.
    ``(4) The Department of the Treasury shall cause to be established 
a designated budget account for each agency that intends to produce, 
procure, or enter into a contract to produce or procure a Government 
publication from which, upon certification of noncompliance and 
associated costs in accordance with subsection (a)(2), the Secretary of 
the Treasury shall transfer funds, upon presentation of a voucher from 
the Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs, to the 
Revolving Fund of the Government Publications Office, for reimbursement 
to the programs of the Superintendent.
    ``(5) A final determination of noncompliance by the Superintendent 
of Government Publications Access Programs under this subsection shall 
be deemed to be a determination of noncompliance with section 501.
    ``(b)(1) Each agency of the executive branch shall use the 
Government Publications Office as the agent of such agency for the 
production or the procurement of production of Government publications 
in accordance with section 501. No agency may produce, procure, or 
enter into a contract for the production or procurement of any 
Government publication, regardless of form or format, unless such 
agency is in compliance with the requirements of this chapter.
    ``(2) Upon a determination by the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Production and Procurement Services that an agency has not 
complied with the requirements of section 501, the Superintendent shall 
notify the Administrator. The Administrator shall certify to the agency 
and the Office of Management and Budget that the agency is not in 
compliance and shall suspend any delegation of authority provided under 
section 501(b).
    ``(3) Upon a final determination of noncompliance, the 
Administrator shall withhold any delegation of authority to the agency 
for a period of 24 months and shall immediately revoke any delegation 
of authority which has been granted to the agency under section 501(b).
    ``(4) If an agency which has been determined to be in noncompliance 
with section 501 is also determined to be in noncompliance with the 
requirements of this chapter under subsection (a), the Administrator 
shall withhold any delegation of authority for an additional period of 
36 months.
    ``(c) Determinations made under this section may be reviewed by the 
Administrator. A determination of the Superintendent of Publications 
Production and Procurement Services and a determination by the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs shall become 
final unless overturned or revised by the Administrator within 20 days 
after the determination.
    ``(d) A final determination under this section shall not be subject 
to judicial review.
``Sec. 1906a. Access to Government publications through the 
              Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
              Programs: compliance and enforcement: legislative branch
    ``(a)(1) All Government publications, regardless of form or format, 
of the legislative branch shall be made available at no cost to the 
Federal publications access libraries.
    ``(2) In the case of Senate publications, the Secretary of the 
Senate, under the direction of the Committee on Rules and 
Administration of the Senate, and in the case of House publications, 
the Clerk of the House of Representatives, under the direction of the 
Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives, shall use 
whatever measures are necessary to ensure the timely dissemination of 
Government publications of the respective Houses to the public and to 
expand and improve the maintenance of permanent public access to 
Government publications under this chapter.
    ``(3) In the case of congressional publications, the Committee on 
Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House 
Oversight of the House of Representatives, acting jointly, shall use 
whatever measures are necessary to ensure the timely dissemination of 
Government publications of Congress and to expand and improve the 
maintenance of permanent public access to Government publications of 
Congress under this chapter.
    ``(b)(1) If the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate 
determines that this section has not been complied with, the Committee 
on Rules and Administration shall direct the Secretary of the Senate to 
bring the Senate into compliance.
    ``(2) Upon approval by the Committee on Rules and Administration of 
the Senate of a voucher submitted by the Secretary of the Senate, the 
contingent fund of the Senate shall be charged for the costs incurred 
by the Secretary of the Senate to bring the Senate into compliance 
under this subsection.
    ``(c)(1) If the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
Representatives determines that this section has not been complied 
with, the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives 
shall direct the Clerk of the House of Representatives to bring the 
House of Representatives into compliance.
    ``(2) Upon appropriate authorization, the costs incurred by the 
Clerk of the House of Representatives shall be charged to the 
appropriate account.
    ``(d)(1) If the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate 
and the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives, 
acting jointly, determine that the provisions of this section regarding 
congressional publications have not been complied with, the Committee 
on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House 
Oversight of the House of Representatives, acting jointly, shall 
authorize the Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
to take specific action to bring Congress into compliance with this 
section.
    ``(2) Upon approval by the Committee on Rules and Administration of 
the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
Representatives, acting jointly, of a voucher submitted by the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs, the 
Congressional Printing and Binding Appropriation shall be charged for 
the costs incurred by the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Access Programs, as authorized by this section.
``Sec. 1906b. Access to Government publications through the 
              Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
              Programs: compliance and enforcement: judicial branch
    ``(a)(1) All Government publications, regardless of form or format, 
of the judicial branch, including our court opinions, shall be made 
available at no charge to the Federal publications access libraries.
    ``(2) The Director of the Administrative Office of the United 
States Courts, shall use whatever measures are necessary to ensure the 
timely dissemination of Government publications of judicial branch 
agencies and the courts to the public and to expand and improve the 
maintenance of permanent public access to Government publications of 
judicial branch agencies and the courts under this chapter.
    ``(b) In the event of noncompliance with the requirements of this 
title, the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States 
Courts, in consultation with the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs, shall establish a means to bring the 
judicial branch into compliance with this chapter.
``Sec. 1907. Permanent Public Access to Government publications
    ``(a) In this section, the term `permanent public access' means 
that a Government publication within the scope of the Federal 
publications access program shall--
            ``(1) remain available for current, continuous, and future 
        public access; and
            ``(2) be made available at no fee to the public.
    ``(b) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall establish a system of permanent public access to Government 
publications, for publications other than those publications identified 
in subsection (c), in accordance with requirements of section 1909(c).
    ``(c) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall establish a system of permanent public access to Government 
publications created for or transmitted through an electronic 
communications system or network.
    ``(d)(1) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs shall establish a committee to make recommendations on the 
components of a distributive system for permanent public access and the 
strategy for achieving such system and access.
    ``(2) The committee established under paragraph (1) shall include 
representatives of--
            ``(A) the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 
        Senate;
            ``(B) the Committee on House Oversight of the House of 
        Representatives;
            ``(C) the National Archives and Records Administration;
            ``(D) the Office of Management and Budget;
            ``(E) the Administrative Office of the United States 
        Courts;
            ``(F) the Library of Congress and other national libraries;
            ``(G) regional and other Federal publications access 
        libraries;
            ``(H) the Federal publications access library council;
            ``(I) the information, computer software, and printing 
        industries;
            ``(J) the AFL-CIO; and
            ``(K) other entities as appropriate.
    ``(e) The Committee established under subsection (c) shall--
            ``(1) not later than 24 months after the effective date of 
        the Government Publications Reform Act of 1998, provide 
        recommendations to the Superintendent of Government 
        Publications Access Programs for necessary statutory and 
        regulatory changes to implement a system to provide permanent 
        public access to Government publications created for or 
        transmitted through an electronic communications system or 
        network;
            ``(2) periodically review developments in public access to 
        Government publications created for or transmitted through an 
        electronic communications system or network, and make 
        recommendations for further action by the Superintendent of 
        Government Publications Access Programs and the Congress as 
        necessary;
            ``(3) propose regulations to the Superintendent of 
        Government Publications Access Programs to be promulgated under 
        section 1904 by the Superintendent as appropriate, necessary to 
        implement permanent public access to Government publications;
            ``(4) identify criteria for Government publications created 
        for or transmitted through an electronic communications system 
        or network that warrant permanent accessibility; and
            ``(5) establish certifying criteria to accompany Government 
        publications created for or transmitted through an electronic 
        communications system or network to ensure that such 
        publications are official versions.
    ``(f) The system of permanent public access to Government 
publications created for or transmitted through an electronic 
communications system or network established under this section shall 
include a distributive system that provides for adequate redundancy and 
requires official and contractual agreements among participating 
entities. The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall retain final responsibility for permanent public access to 
Government publications created for or transmitted through an 
electronic communications system or network and for ensuring that the 
system is operated in accordance with this section.
    ``(g)(1) Until the system of permanent public access under this 
section is established, each agency shall provide permanent public 
access to the Government publications it creates for or transmits 
through an electronic communications system or network.
    ``(2) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall be responsible for developing, in consultation with Congress, the 
Office of Management and Budget, and the Administrative Office of the 
United States Courts, procedures and guidelines for permanent public 
access to Government publications created for or transmitted through an 
electronic communications system or network for purposes of paragraph 
(1).
    ``(3) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall offer to agencies, on a cost-recovery basis, services for 
providing permanent public access to the Government publications 
created for or transmitted through an electronic communications system 
or network.
    ``(h) Until such time as the bound permanent Congressional Record 
and the bound United States Congressional serial set are created for or 
transmitted through an electronic communications system or network, 
such Record and set shall remain available in a bound, printed format 
for those Federal publications access libraries which have chosen to 
receive such Record and set.
``Sec. 1908. Designation of Federal publications access libraries
    ``(a) Subject to subsection (e), Federal publications access 
libraries shall be designated by certain elected officials as follows:
            ``(1) Each Senator may designate up to 2 libraries within 
        the State represented.
            ``(2) Each Representative may designate up to 2 libraries 
        within the district represented.
            ``(3) The Resident Commissioner may designate up to 2 
        libraries within Puerto Rico.
            ``(4) The Mayor of the District of Columbia may designate 
        up to 2 Federal publications access libraries in the District 
        of Columbia.
            ``(5) The Governor of Guam, the Governor of the 
        Commonwealth of the Northern Marina Islands, and the Governor 
        of American Samoa may each designate 1 Federal publications 
        access library in each area represented.
            ``(6) The Governor of the Virgin Islands may designate 1 
        Federal publications access library on the Island of Saint 
        Thomas and 1 on the Island of Saint Croix.
    ``(b) Upon request of the institution, the following shall be 
designated by the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs as Federal publications access libraries:
            ``(1) Land grant colleges.
            ``(2) State libraries.
            ``(3) The library of the highest State appellate court in 
        each State.
            ``(4) The library of any law school accredited by a 
        nationally recognized accrediting agency or association, or 
        accredited by the highest appellate court of the State in which 
        the law school is located.
            ``(5) The libraries of the executive departments, the 
        United States Military Academy, the United States Naval 
        Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, the United States 
        Coast Guard Academy, and the United States Merchant Marine 
        Academy.
    ``(c)(1) A Federal publications access library within each 
independent agency may be designated by the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Access Programs upon certification of need by 
the head of the agency to the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Access Programs.
    ``(2) Additional Federal publications access libraries within 
executive departments and independent agencies may be designated by the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs upon 
certification of justifiable need by the head of the agency.
    ``(d) Before any additional or replacement Federal publications 
access library is designated, the head of the library shall furnish the 
appointing authority justification of the necessity for such 
designation. The justification shall be approved by the head of the 
library authority of the State, the District of Columbia, or the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, within which the proposed Federal 
publications access library is to be located, or signed by the head of 
each existing Federal publications access library within the 
congressional district, the State, the District of Columbia, or the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
    ``(e) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
may designate as a Federal publications access library, upon 
recommendation of a Senator or Representative representing the area, 
any library serving an underserved area.
    ``(f) Notwithstanding the limitations on numbers of Federal 
publications access libraries that may be designated under this 
section, each library that is designated as a Federal Depository 
Library as of the effective date of the Government Publications Reform 
Act of 1998 shall be a Federal publications access library as of that 
date.
    ``(g) A library may be designated under this section as a Federal 
publications access library only if it is able properly to maintain and 
provide public access to Government publications, regardless of form or 
format.
``Sec. 1909. Regional Federal publications access libraries
    ``(a)(1) Not more than 2 Federal publications access libraries, 
including any group of Federal publications access libraries with a 
cooperative agreement, in each State or service area and the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia--
            ``(A) may be designated as regional Federal publications 
        access libraries; and
            ``(B) shall receive from the Superintendent of Government 
        Publications Access Programs copies of or access to all new and 
        revised Government publications authorized for dissemination to 
        Federal publications access libraries.
    ``(2) A cooperative group of libraries that includes libraries in 
more than 1 State may be designated under this section.
    ``(b)(1) Designation of regional Federal publications access 
libraries may be made by a Senator or the Resident Commissioner from 
Puerto Rico or the Mayor of the District of Columbia with the areas 
represented by them, after consultation with the head of the library 
authority of the State or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the 
District of Columbia, as the case may be, who shall first ascertain 
from the head of the library, or cooperative group of libraries, to be 
so designated that the library will fulfill the requirements of a 
regional Federal publications access library.
    ``(2) The agreement to function as a regional Federal public access 
information library shall be transmitted to the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Access Programs by the Senator or the Resident 
Commissioner from Puerto Rico or the Mayor of the District of Columbia 
when the designation is made.
    ``(c)(1) Regional Federal publications access libraries shall--
            ``(A) permanently maintain for public use at least 1 copy 
        of all Government publications not created for or transmitted 
        through an electronic communications system or network, except 
        those authorized to be discarded by the Superintendent of 
        Government Publications Access Programs; or
            ``(B) coordinate with other Federal publications access 
        libraries in the applicable service area to ensure that such 
        service is provided by a Federal publications access library in 
        the area.
    ``(2) Within the region served, a regional Federal publications 
access library shall provide or coordinate the provision of all 
program-related activities in the service area, including interlibrary 
loans and reference services.
``Sec. 1910. Federal publications access libraries: responsibilities
    ``(a) Federal publications access libraries shall make Government 
publications received or accessed through the Federal publications 
access program available for the use of the public at no fee.
    ``(b) All Government publications not created for or transmitted 
through an electronic communications system or network received by 
Federal publications access libraries remain the property of the United 
States Government. Federal publications access libraries may dispose of 
Government publications only as authorized by the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Access Programs.
    ``(c) Federal publications access libraries shall operate in accord 
with regulations promulgated under section 1904.
``Sec. 1911. Federal publications access libraries council
    ``(a) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall establish a permanent Federal Publications Access Library Council 
(in this section referred to as the `Council').
    ``(b) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall--
            ``(1) determine the composition of the Council and the 
        duration of terms of the members; and
            ``(2) publish the membership of the Council annually in the 
        Federal Register.
    ``(c) The Council's members shall be representative of the various 
classes of libraries which comprise the Federal publications access 
library program and others.
    ``(d) Appointment to the Council shall be made without regard to 
political affiliation.
    ``(e) The Council shall advise the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs on--
            ``(1) appropriate items and preferred formats for inclusion 
        in the program under this chapter;
            ``(2) Government publications that--
                    ``(A) are not included in the program; and
                    ``(B) the Council recommends for inclusion in the 
                program; and
            ``(3) such other policy matters as the Superintendent of 
        Government Publications Access Programs may request.
    ``(f) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
may establish other advisory committees consisting of representatives 
of Federal publications access libraries, agencies, and users of 
Government publications. Such advisory committees shall be established 
as the Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
determines appropriate.
    ``(g)(1) All meetings of the Council and those of any other 
advisory committee established by the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs shall be open to the public, except when 
the Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
determines that the meeting or any portion of the meeting shall be 
closed to the public consistent with the provisions of section 552(b) 
of title 5, and only after a \2/3\ vote of the Council.
    ``(2) All meetings of the Council and those of any other advisory 
committee established by the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Access Programs shall be preceded by timely public notice in the 
Federal Register of the time, place, and subject of the meeting.
    ``(3) Minutes of each meeting shall be kept and shall contain a 
record of the people present and a description of the discussion that 
occurred. The minutes and records of all such meetings and other 
documents that were made available to or prepared for the Council or 
any other advisory council established by the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Access Programs shall be made 
publicly accessible unless the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs determines that a record or any portion of 
such record, shall not be publicly disclosed, consistent with the 
provisions of section 552(b) of title 5, and only after a \2/3\ vote of 
the Council.''.
    (d) Report to Congress.--Not later than 30 months after the 
effective date of this Act, the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs shall submit a report to the Committee on 
Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House 
Oversight of the House of Representatives on--
            (1) the status of the Federal publications access program 
        established under chapter 19 of title 44, United States Code;
            (2) the expected developments in the program, including 
        recommendations for necessary statutory and subsequent 
        regulatory changes to implement a system to provide continuous 
        and permanent access to Government publications created for or 
        transmitted through an electronic communications system or 
        network; and
            (3) specific recommendations for legislative proposals, as 
        appropriate.
    (e) Transfer.--All duties, authorities, responsibilities, and 
functions of the Superintendent of Documents of the Government Printing 
Office on the day before the effective date of this title shall be 
performed by the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs on and after such date.
    (f)  References.--References in any other Federal law, Executive 
order, rule, regulation, or delegation of authority, or any document of 
or relating to--
            (1) the Superintendent of Documents shall be deemed to 
        refer to the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
        Programs; and
            (2) the Office of the Superintendent of Documents shall be 
        deemed to refer to the Office of the Superintendent of 
        Government Publications Access Programs.
    (g) Transition.--
            (1) Incumbent.--
                    In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the 
                individual serving as the Superintendent of Documents 
                of the Government Printing Office on the effective date 
                of this title may serve as Acting Superintendent of 
                Government Publications Access Programs of the 
                Government Publications Office until the President 
                appoints a Superintendent of Government Publications 
                Access Programs under paragraph (2).
            (2) Appointment.--Not later than 180 days after the 
        effective date of this title, the President shall appoint a 
        Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs of 
        the Government Publications Office in accordance with section 
        1903 of title 44, United States Code (as amended by this Act).
            (3) Assets and property.--Assets and real property under 
        the control of, in use by, or assigned to the Superintendent of 
        Documents by the Public Printer on the day before the effective 
        date of this Act shall be under the control of the Acting 
        Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs on 
        the effective date of this Act for the use of the Acting 
        Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
        thereafter for purposes of implementing this Act.
            (4) Personnel.--Personnel under the supervision of or 
        assigned to the Superintendent of Documents by the Public 
        Printer on the day before the effective date of this Act shall 
        be under the supervision or assigned to the Acting 
        Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs on 
        the effective date of this Act for purposes of implementing 
        this Act.
    (h) Continuation of Federal Depository Libraries as Federal 
Publications Access Libraries.--The regulations relating to Federal 
publications access libraries promulgated under section 1904(e) of 
title 44, United States Code (as amended by subsection (a) of this 
section) shall incorporate all relevant provisions of regulations 
relating to Federal depository libraries under sections 1905, 1906, 
1907, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1915, and 1916 of title 44, United States Code 
(as in effect before the effective date of this Act).
    (i) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of chapters for 
title 44, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating 
to chapter 19 and inserting the following:

``19. Federal Publications Access Programs..................    1901''.

SEC. 403. DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS BY 
              SUPERINTENDENT OF GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS ACCESS 
              PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 17 of title 44, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:

     ``CHAPTER 17--DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

``Sec.
``1701. Publications for public distribution to be distributed by the 
                            Superintendent of Government Publications 
                            Access Programs; mailing lists.
``1702. Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs; sale 
                            of Government publications.
``1703. Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs: 
                            assistants, blanks, printing, and binding.
``1704. Payment of costs.
``1705. Additional copies for sale to the public.
``1706. Production and sale of extra copies of Government publications.
``1707. Reproducing Government publications required for sale.
``1708. Prices for sales copies of publications; crediting of receipts; 
                            resale by dealers; sales agents.
``1709. Blank forms: printing and sale to public.
``1710. Publications for use of the Superintendent of Publications 
                            Access Programs.
``1711. Publications for use of National Archives and Records 
                            Administration.
``1712. Publications for the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of 
                            the House of Representatives.
``1713. Government publications for the Library of Congress.
``1714. Exchange of Government publications by heads of Federal 
                            agencies.
``Sec. 1701. Publications for public distribution to be distributed by 
              the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
              Programs; mailing lists
    ``(a) Money appropriated by any Act may not be used for services in 
an executive department or other Government establishment at the 
District of Columbia, in the work of addressing, wrapping, mailing, or 
otherwise dispatching a publication for public distribution, except 
maps, weather reports, and weather cards issued by them or for the 
purchase of material or supplies to be used in this work. The 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs shall perform 
this work at the Government Publications Office. The head of an 
executive department, independent office, and establishment of the 
Government at the District of Columbia, shall furnish from time to time 
to the Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
mailing lists, in convenient form, and changes in them, or penalty mail 
slips, for use in the public distribution of publications issued by the 
department or establishment. The Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs may furnish copies of a publication only 
in accordance with law or the instruction of the head of the department 
or establishment issuing the publication.
    ``(b) This section does not apply to orders, instructions, 
directions, notices, or circulars of information printed for and issued 
by an executive department or other Government establishment or to the 
distribution of public publications by Senators or Members of the House 
of Representatives or to the Senate Service Department, House of 
Representatives Publications Distribution Service, and document rooms 
of the Senate or House of Representatives.
``Sec. 1702. Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs; 
              sale of Government publications
    ``(a)(1) If an officer of the Government having in his charge 
Government publications for sale desires to be relieved of the 
publications, the officer may--
            ``(A) turn the publications over to the Superintendent of 
        Government Publications Access Programs, who shall receive and 
        sell them under this section; or
            ``(B) dispose of such publications under section 306 or 
        314.
    ``(2) Moneys received from the sale of such Government publications 
shall be paid to the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs, and placed in the Revolving Fund of the Government 
Publications Office and credited to the account of the Superintendent 
of Government Publications Access Programs.
    ``(b) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall have general supervision of a Government publications sales 
program which shall provide Government publications to the public for 
purchase.
    ``(c) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
shall report monthly to the Administrator the number of publications 
received by the Superintendent and the disposition made of them.
``Sec. 1703. Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs: 
              assistants, blanks, printing, and binding
    ``(a) The Administrator shall provide convenient office space, 
storage, and distributing rooms for the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs. The Superintendent of Government 
Production and Procurement Services, upon requisition by the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs, shall do the 
printing and binding required by the office in accordance with section 
1107.
``Sec. 1704. Payment of costs
    ``(a) Employees in the Office of the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs may be paid for night, Sunday, holiday, 
and overtime work at rates not in excess of the rates of additional pay 
for this work allowed other employees of the Government Publications 
Office under section 303.
    ``(b) The costs of printing and related services incurred by the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs under this 
chapter for work performed by the Superintendent of Government 
Production and Procurement Services shall be paid by the Superintendent 
of Government Publications Access Programs from accounts under the 
Superintendent's authority within the Revolving Fund of the Government 
Publications Office.
    ``(c) The Administrator shall transfer funds from the account of 
the Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs to the 
account of the Superintendent of Government Production and Procurement 
Services, upon a voucher prepared by the Superintendent of Government 
Production and Procurement Services and approved by the Superintendent 
of Government Publications Access Programs.
``Sec. 1705. Additional copies for sale to the public
    ``Upon requisition by the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Access Programs, the Superintendent of Government Production and 
Procurement Services shall produce additional copies of a Government 
publication, not confidential in character, required for sale to the 
public, as determined by the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Access Programs. The cost of such production shall be determined in 
accordance with section 1107. Such production shall not interfere with 
the prompt execution of publications production for the executive, 
legislative, or judicial branches of Government.
``Sec. 1706. Production and sale of extra copies of Government 
              publications
    ``The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs may 
furnish to private nongovernmental applicants giving notice before a 
publication is produced, such copies of the requested Government 
publication as the applicant requests. The applicant shall pay in 
advance the price of the requested Government publication as determined 
by the Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs. The 
production of such copies for private nongovernmental parties may not 
interfere with the production for the Government.
``Sec. 1707. Reproducing Government publications required for sale
    ``The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs may 
order reproduced, from time to time, Government publications required 
for sale, subject to the approval of the head of the department or 
agency in which the Government publication originated. The 
Superintendent of Government Production and Procurement Services shall 
be reimbursed by the Superintendent of Government Publications Access 
Programs for the cost of reproduction from the moneys received from the 
sale of Government publications. Such receipts shall be deposited in 
the Revolving Fund of the Government Publications Office to the credit 
of the Superintendent of Government Production and Procurement 
Services.
``Sec. 1708. Prices for sales copies of publications; crediting of 
              receipts; resale by dealers; sales agents
    ``(a) To the greatest extent feasible, the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Access Programs shall operate the sales program 
of Government publications on a self-sustaining basis. Sales prices for 
Government publications sold by the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs shall be established by the Superintendent 
of Government Publications Access Programs to cover the cost of 
procurement or production, dissemination, and other appropriate costs, 
including the offering of sales discounts and any costs associated with 
the sales program.
    ``(b) The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
may prescribe terms and conditions under which the Superintendent of 
Government Publications Access Programs authorizes the resale of 
Government publications by book dealers. The Superintendent of 
Government Publications Access Programs may designate any Government 
officer or any person who is not a Federal employee as his agent for 
the sale of Government publications under terms and conditions agreed 
upon by the Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs 
and the head of the respective agency of the Government.
``Sec. 1709. Blank forms: printing and sale to public
    ``The Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs may 
have produced for sale to the public, upon prepayment, additional 
copies of approved Government blank forms.
``Sec. 1710. Publications for use of the Superintendent of Publications 
              Access Programs
    ``The Superintendent of Publications Access Programs may retain out 
of all publications, bills, and resolutions printed the number of 
copies absolutely needful for the official use of the Government 
Publications Office, not exceeding 5 of each.
``Sec. 1711. Publications for use of National Archives and Records 
              Administration
    ``(a) The National Archives and Records Administration may purchase 
from the Government Publications Office such Government publications as 
the Archivist of the United States determines necessary for use by the 
Archivist, including use by the Presidential Library established for 
the President during whose term the publications were issued.
    ``(b) Such purchases shall be made--
            ``(1) in accordance with section 1107; and
            ``(2) from funds appropriated to the National Archives and 
        Records Administration for such purpose.
``Sec. 1712. Publications for the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk 
              of the House of Representatives
    ``(a) When printing not bearing a congressional number, except 
confidential matters, blank forms, and circular letters not of a public 
character, is done for an agency of Government, or not of a 
confidential character, is done for use of congressional committees, 2 
copies shall be sent by the Government Publications Office to the 
Senate and the House of Representatives libraries, respectively.
    ``(b) Such purchases shall be made--
            ``(1) in accordance with section 1107; and
            ``(2) from funds appropriated for congressional printing 
        and binding under Sec. 735, title 44, United States Code, as 
        amended by this Act.
``Sec. 1713. Government publications for the Library of Congress
    ``(a) The Library of Congress shall purchase from the 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs such 
Government publications as the Librarian of Congress determines 
necessary for service to Congress, including the Congressional Research 
Service, maintenance of the library's collection, and to fully carry 
into effect the convention concluded at Brussels on March 15, 1886, and 
proclaimed by the President of the United States on January 15, 1889, 
authorizing the Librarian of Congress to administer an international 
exchange program by providing Government publications, including daily 
copies of the Congressional Record, for distribution to foreign 
governments which agree, as indicated by the Librarian of Congress, to 
send to the United States similar publications of their governments for 
delivery to the Library of Congress.
    ``(b) Such purchases shall be made--
            ``(1) in accordance with section 1107; and
            ``(2) from funds appropriated to the Library of Congress 
        for such purposes.
``Sec. 1714. Exchange of Government publications by heads of agencies
    ``The head of an agency may exchange surplus Government 
publications for other Government publications required by the agency, 
if it is to the advantage of the public service.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of chapters for 
title 44, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating 
to chapter 17 and insert the following:

``17. Distribution and Sale of Government Publications......    1701''.

SEC. 404. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO THE 
              SUPERINTENDENT OF GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS ACCESS 
              PROGRAMS.

    (a) Chapter 11.--Section 1108 of title 44, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ``Superintendent of Documents'' and inserting 
``Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs''.
    (b) Chapter 41.--
            (1) Section 4101 of title 44, United States Code, is 
        amended--
                    (A) by striking ``Superintendent of Documents'' 
                each place it appears and inserting ``Superintendent of 
                Government Publications Access Programs'';
                    (B) by striking ``, under the direction of the 
                Public Printer; and'';
                    (C) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting before the 
                semicolon the following: ``, for the executive, 
                legislative, and judicial branches of Government''; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following new 
                subsection:
    ``(d) Locator.--The electronic directory, or locator, authorized 
under section 3511 shall not replace, but shall be established in 
addition to, the locator established by this section. The 
Superintendent of Government Publications Access Programs shall be the 
sole administrator of the Government locator established under this 
section and shall coordinate and integrate the services of the locator 
established under section 3511.''.
            (2) Section 4102 of title 44, United States Code, repealed.
            (3) The table of sections for chapter 41, United States 
        Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 4102.

             TITLE V--ADMINISTRATIVE AND SAVINGS PROVISIONS

SEC. 501. CONTINUATION OF EMPLOYMENT TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

    Compensation, benefits, and other terms and conditions of 
employment in effect on the day before the effective date of this Act, 
whether provided by statute, regulation, or agreement between employees 
and the Public Printer, shall continue to apply to officers and 
employees of the Government Printing Office until modified or 
terminated in accordance with law, including the provisions of this 
Act.

SEC. 502. PROCEEDINGS NOT AFFECTED.

    The provisions of this Act shall not affect any proceedings, 
including notices of proposed rulemaking, or any application for any 
license, permit, certificate, or financial assistance pending before 
the Government Printing Office at the time this Act takes effect, with 
respect to functions transferred by this Act but such proceedings and 
applications shall be continued. Orders shall be issued in such 
proceedings, appeals shall be taken therefrom, and payments shall be 
made pursuant to such orders, as if this Act had not been enacted, and 
orders issued in any such proceedings shall continue in effect until 
modified, terminated, superseded, or revoked by a duly authorized 
official, by a court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law. 
Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the discontinuance 
or modification of any such proceeding under the same terms and 
conditions and to the same extent that such proceeding could have been 
discontinued or modified if this Act had not been enacted.

SEC. 503. SUITS NOT AFFECTED.

    The provisions of this Act shall not affect suits commenced before 
the effective date of this Act, and in all such suits, proceedings 
shall be had, appeals taken, and judgments rendered in the same manner 
and with the same effect as if this Act had not been enacted.

SEC. 504. NONABATEMENT OF ACTIONS.

    No suit, action, or other proceeding commenced by or against the 
Government Printing Office, or by or against any individual in the 
official capacity of such individual as an officer of the Government 
Printing Office, shall abate by reason of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 505. SEPARABILITY.

    If a provision of this Act or its application to any person or 
circumstance is held invalid, neither the remainder of this Act nor the 
application of the provision to other persons or circumstances shall be 
affected.

SEC. 506. TRANSFER OF CERTAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON 
              PRINTING.

    (1) Section 208 of title 1, United States Code, is amended--
            (A) in the section heading by striking all after 
        ``agencies''; and
            (B) by striking ``Joint Committee on Printing'' and 
        inserting ``Administrator of the Government Publications 
        Office, in consultation with the Committee on Rules and 
        Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House 
        Oversight of the House of Representatives''.
    (2) The table of sections for chapter 3 of title 1, United States 
Code, is amended in the item relating to section 208 by striking all 
after ``agencies'' and inserting a period.
    (3) Section 3 of the joint resolution of December 24, 1970 (2 
U.S.C. 168b) is amended by striking ``Joint Committee on Printing'' and 
inserting ``Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the 
Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives''.
    (4) Section 2(b)(1) of Public Law 94-386 (2 U.S.C. 285b note; 
District of Columbia Code, section 49-102) is amended by striking 
``Public Printer'' and ``Public Printer (in consultation with the Joint 
Committee on Printing)'' and inserting ``Superintendent of Government 
Publications Production and Procurement Services (in consultation with 
the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the 
Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives)''.
    (5) Section 312 of the Federal Water Power Act (16 U.S.C. 825k) is 
amended by striking all beginning with ``Joint Committee on Printing'' 
in the fourth sentence through the end of the section and inserting 
``Administrator of the Government Publications Office may prescribe''.
    (6) Section 5(c) of the National Foundation on the Arts and the 
Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 954(c)) is amended by striking the 
sentence following paragraph (10).
    (7) Section 7(c) of the National Foundation on the Arts and the 
Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 956(c)) is amended by striking the 
sentence following paragraph (10).
    (8) Section 602(d) of the Federal Property and Administrative 
Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 474(d)(18)) is amended by striking 
``Joint Committee on Printing'' and inserting ``Government Publications 
Office''.
    (9) Chapter 1 of title 44, United States Code, is repealed.
    (10) The table of chapters for title 44, United States Code, is 
amended by striking the item relating to chapter 1.
    (11) Chapter VII of title I of the Second Supplemental 
Appropriations Act, 1976 (Public Law 94-303; 90 Stat. 616; 44 U.S.C. 
103 note) is amended under the heading ``Joint Committee on Printing'' 
by striking the 2 provisos.
    (12) Title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1978 
(Public Law 95-94; 91 Stat. 669; 44 U.S.C. 103 note) is amended under 
the heading ``Joint Committee on Printing'' by striking the first 2 
provisos.

SEC. 507. ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Recommended Legislation.--After consultation with the Committee 
on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committee on House 
Oversight of the House of Representatives, the Administrator of the 
Office of Government Publications, the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Access Programs, and the Superintendent of Government 
Publications Production and Procurement Services shall each prepare and 
submit to Congress recommended legislation containing technical and 
conforming amendments to reflect the changes made by this Act.
    (b) Submission to Congress.--Not later than 6 months after the 
effective date of this Act, the Administrator of the Office of 
Government Publications, the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Access Programs, and the Superintendent of Government Publications 
Production and Procurement Services shall each submit the recommended 
legislation referred to under subsection (a).

SEC. 508. IMPLEMENTATION ACTIONS.

    Effective on the date of enactment of this Act, the Public Printer 
and the Superintendent of Documents may each take such administrative 
actions as necessary to provide for the orderly implementation of this 
Act.

SEC. 509. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    Except as provided under sections 305, 308, 408, and 508 this Act 
shall take effect on January 1, 1999.
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