[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6822 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6822

     To amend title 44, United States Code, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 14, 2023

  Mr. Khanna (for himself, Ms. Mace, Ms. Porter, Ms. Norton, and Mr. 
  Connolly) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
               Committee on Oversight and Accountability

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend title 44, United States Code, 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.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Archives and Records 
Administration Modernization Act'' or the ``NARA Modernization Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Title 44, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in section 710, by striking ``his approval'' and 
        inserting ``approval by the President'';
            (2) in section 711, by striking ``he shall'' and inserting 
        ``the Director shall'';
            (3) in section 2108--
                    (A) by striking ``transferred to him'' and 
                inserting ``transferred to the Archivist'';
                    (B) by striking ``appear to him'' and inserting 
                ``appear to the head of the Federal agency'';
                    (C) by striking ``his custody'' and inserting ``the 
                custody of the head of the Federal agency'';
                    (D) by striking ``he concurs,'' and inserting ``the 
                Archivist concurs'';
                    (E) by striking ``his successor in function'', each 
                place it appears, and inserting ``the successor in 
                function of the head of the agency''; and
                    (F) by striking ``he determines'' and inserting 
                ``the Archivist determines'';
            (4) in section 2109--
                    (A) by striking ``to him'' and inserting ``to the 
                Archivist''; and
                    (B) by striking ``He may'' and inserting ``The 
                Archivist may'';
            (5) in section 2110--
                    (A) by striking ``he considers'' and inserting 
                ``the Archivist considers''; and
                    (B) by striking ``his custody'' and inserting ``the 
                custody of the Archivist'';
            (6) in section 2112--
                    (A) by striking ``he may'', each place it appears, 
                and inserting ``the Archivist may'';
                    (B) by striking ``in him'' and inserting ``in the 
                Archivist'';
                    (C) by striking ``his custody'' and inserting ``the 
                custody of the Archivist''; and
                    (D) by striking ``his control'' and inserting ``the 
                control of the Archivist'';
            (7) in section 2307, by striking ``his designee'' and 
        inserting ``the designee of the Archivist'';
            (8) in section 2903, by striking ``by him'' and inserting 
        ``by the Archivist'';
            (9) in section 3308, by striking ``he may'' and inserting 
        ``the Archivist may'';
            (10) in section 3310, by striking ``he considers'' and 
        inserting ``the Archivist considers''; and
            (11) in section 3311--
                    (A) by striking ``his legal custody'' and inserting 
                ``the legal custody of the head of the agency of the 
                United States Government'';
                    (B) by striking ``his opinion'' and inserting ``the 
                opinion of such head of such agency'';
                    (C) by striking ``he shall'' and inserting ``such 
                official shall''; and
                    (D) by striking ``he disposed'' and inserting 
                ``such official disposed''.
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