S. 1267 — A bill to amend sections 3303a and 1503 of title 44, United States Code, to require mandatory application of the General Records Schedules to all Federal agencies and to resolve conflicts between authorizations for disposal and to provide for the disposal of Federal Register documents. | PoliFocus

S. 126795th Congress

A bill to amend sections 3303a and 1503 of title 44, United States Code, to require mandatory application of the General Records Schedules to all Federal agencies and to resolve conflicts between authorizations for disposal and to provide for the disposal of Federal Register documents.

Subjects

Public records

Summary

(Reported to Senate from the Committee on Governmental Affairs with amendment, S. Rept. 95-711)

Requires the Administrator of General Services to develop general records schedules specifying periods after which specified Federal agency records must be disposed. States that, with specified exceptions, in the event of a conflict between the period required before destruction specified by the Administrator and the period specified by the head of the agency providing such records, the shorter period shall be required. Makes subject to such destruction schedules all information which appears in the Federal Register and which must be retained by the National Archives, with the exception of Presidential and Executive orders which must be permanently retained.

Grants to the Administrator the authority to authorize the disposal of originals of documents in accordance with a disposal schedule submitted by the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register.

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Legislative Actions

1978-03-21
Reported to Senate from the Committee on Governmental Affairs with amendment, S. Rept. 95-711.
1978-04-03
Call of calendar in Senate.
1978-04-03
Measure considered in Senate.
1978-04-03
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Measure passed Senate, amended.
1978-04-03
Measure passed Senate, amended.
1978-04-05
Referred to House Committee on House Administration.
1978-06-05
Reported to House from the Committee on House Administration, H. Rept. 95-1263.
1978-06-05
Reported to House from the Committee on House Administration, H. Rept. 95-1263.
1978-09-26
Measure called up by consent calendar in House.
1978-09-26
Measure considered in House.
1978-09-26
Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House.
1978-09-26
Measure passed House.
1978-09-27
Measure enrolled in House.
1978-09-28
Measure enrolled in Senate.
1978-09-29
Measure presented to President.
1978-09-29
Measure presented to President.
1978-10-10
Signed by President.
1978-10-10
Signed by President.
1978-10-10
Public Law 95-440.
1978-10-10
Public Law 95-440.

Enacted as Public Law 95-440

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