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<meta><dc:title>117 S 4791 ENR: To amend section 301 of title 44, United States Code, to establish a term for the appointment of the Director of the Government Publishing Office.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>S.</dc:type><docNumber>4791</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="117">One Hundred Seventeenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="2">A T T  H  E S  E  C  O  N  D S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty two</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To amend section 301 of title 44, United States Code, to establish a term for the appointment of the Director of the Government Publishing Office.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
<section id="d25592e62" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/4791/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>TERM FOR APPOINTMENT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE.</heading><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d25592e66" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/4791/s1/a" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau><ref href="/us/usc/t44/s301">Section 301 of title 44, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d25592e80" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/4791/s1/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(a)</quotedText>” before “<quotedText>The President</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d25592e88" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/4791/s1/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">“(b) </num><content>The Director shall be appointed for a term of 10 years.</content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">“(c) </num><content>An individual appointed to the position of Director, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, may be reappointed to that position in accordance with subsections (a) and (b).”</content></subsection></quotedContent>.</content></paragraph></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d25592e106" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/4791/s1/b" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Application to Incumbent</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If there is an individual serving in the position of Director of the Government Publishing Office, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, on the date of enactment of this Act—</chapeau><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d25592e114" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/4791/s1/b/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>the amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to the appointment of such individual; and</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d25592e118" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/4791/s1/b/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>the term of the individual for purposes of subsection (b) of <ref href="/us/usc/t44/s301">section 301 of title 44, United States Code</ref>, as added by subsection (a), shall be considered to have started on the date on which the individual assumed the office of Director of the Government Publishing Office.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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