Financial Support for Law Library of Library of Congress

(a)

Financial Support

In addition to any other amounts made available for the salaries and expenses of the Library of Congress, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Librarian of Congress $3,500,000 for building, maintaining, and administering maintaining and administering the operations of the law library of the Library of Congress, including the cataloguing of the collections of the law library. Any amounts appropriated pursuant to the authority of this subsection shall remain available without fiscal year limitation until expended. (b)

Electronic Cataloging of Nonproprietary Material

To the extent practicable, in using any funds appropriated pursuant to the authority of subsection (a) to catalog and archive nonproprietary material in the collections of the Law Library after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Law Librarian of Congress shall catalog and archive the material electronically in a nonproprietary and nondiscriminatory format. Nothing in the previous sentence may be construed to affect any cataloging and archiving activities carried out with funds which are not appropriated pursuant to the authority of subsection (a).

Charles H. W. Meehan Program to Support the Mission of the Law Library of the Library of Congress

(a)

Establishment

(1)

In general

The Librarian of Congress, acting through the Law Librarian of Congress, shall establish and operate a program to be known as the Charles H. W. Meehan Law Library Support Program (hereafter in this section referred to as the Program), which will— (A)provide enhanced or special services and programs for the Law Library; and (B)otherwise support the mission of the Law Library. (2)

Relation to other programs

The Librarian shall operate the Program in a manner which ensures that the resources of the Program are not commingled with the resources used to carry out the program operated under section 2. (b)

Role of Other Entities

The Librarian may carry out the Program through agreements and partnerships entered into with other government and private entities, including the American Association of Law Libraries and the American Bar Association. (c)

Private Support

(1)

Acceptance of donations

Donations of funds and in-kind contributions in support of the Program may be accepted— (A)by the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, as provided under the Act entitled An Act to create a Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1925 (2 U.S.C. 154 et seq.); and (B)by the Librarian of Congress, as provided under section 4 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 160). (2)

Use of amounts

Notwithstanding the second paragraph of section 2 of the Act entitled An Act to create a Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1925 (2 U.S.C. 157), or the third sentence of section 4 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 160), any amounts accepted by the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board or the Librarian of Congress in support of the Program shall be subject to disbursement by the Librarian only upon the recommendation of the Law Librarian (except to the extent otherwise provided under any terms and conditions on the use of the amounts which are imposed by the person making the donation). (3)

Acceptance of other voluntary services

Notwithstanding section 1342 of title 31, United States Code, the Librarian of Congress may accept voluntary and uncompensated services in support of the Program. (d)

Establishment of separate account

(1)

In general

There is established in the Treasury (among the accounts of the Library of Congress) a separate account for the Program, which shall consist of— (A)amounts accepted by the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board in support of the Program as described in subsection (c)(1)(A), together with any income earned on such amounts; (B)amounts accepted by the Librarian of Congress in support of the Program as described in subsection (c)(1)(B), together with any income earned on such amounts; (C)amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization under subsection (f); and (D)interest on the balance of the account. (2)

Use of amounts

The funds contained in the account established under this subsection shall be used solely by the Law Librarian of Congress to carry out the Program. (e)

Annual Report

Not later than April 30 of each year (beginning with 2009), the Librarian of Congress shall submit a report on Program funding and activities to the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, the American Bar Association, and the American Association of Law Libraries. The report shall include— (1)a listing of all donations received in support of the Program during the previous year; (2)the total obligations during the previous year for each Program activity; (3)the amount appropriated pursuant to the authorization under subsection (f) for the fiscal year beginning on the previous October 1; (4)a list of Program activities, with budget information for each such activity, planned for the calendar year in which the report is submitted; and (5)any findings in the most recently completed audit conducted with respect to the Law Library or Program funds or investments. (f)

Authorization of Appropriations

In addition to any other amounts authorized to be appropriated to the Librarian of Congress for the Law Library of Congress for a fiscal year, there are authorized to be appropriated for deposit into the account established under subsection (d) an amount equal to 40 percent of the amount of the donations accepted by the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board in support of the Program under subsection (c)(1) during the previous fiscal year.