Title 44 Revision
On June 24, 2018, the American Library Association Council of the 2018 ALA Annual Conference produced, ‘A Resolution Recognizing the 25th Anniversary of the GPO Access Act and Calling for the Enactment of the FDLP Modernization Act.’
On May 25, 2018, the Congressional Budget Office released the Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 5305 FDLP Modernization Act of 2018, as ordered by the Committee on House Administration on April 12, 2018.
GPO sent “Comments on Draft Legislation to Amend Title 44, U.S.C. (December 11, 2017 version)” to the Committee on House Administration on January 31, 2018. This document relays all comments, observations, and concerns with the draft revision to Title 44 as it relates to the Federal Depository Library Program, other Superintendent of Documents programs, and to GPO as an organization.
GPO sent “Comments on Draft Legislation to Amend Title 44, U.S.C. (February 22, 2018 version)” to the Committee on House Administration on February 27, 2018. This document relays all comments, observations, and concerns with the draft revision to Title 44 as it relates to the Federal Depository Library Program, other Superintendent of Documents programs, and to GPO as an organization.
A draft bill from the Committee on House Administration to amend Title 44, U.S.C. (dated December 11, 2017).
In the past half-century, information creation, distribution, retention, and preservation has expanded from a tangible, paper-based process to include digital processes managed largely through computerized information technologies. The transition to digital information raises a number of issues of possible interest to Congress. This Congressional Research Service report (R42457) discusses those possible concerns as they affect FDLP.
Letter to Superintendent of Documents, Laurie Hall; March 19, 2021
January 2021, Transmitted to Superintendent of Documents, Laurie Hall, from DLC Chair, Alic
This 02/28/2022 version of GPO’s Legislative Proposals is a revision of the July 15, 2020 Legislative Proposals. There were a few changes that resulted from submissions received during the public request for comments.
This version of GPO’s Legislative Proposals is a discussion draft that is consistent with the Task Force on a Digital Federal Depository Library Program. It revises the February 2022 Legislative Proposals.
This version of GPO’s Legislative Proposals supersedes the March 2023 proposals. The substantive change is in Section 1912(d) regarding multistate service areas.
This bill is to revise certain authorities of the Government Publishing Office, and for other purposes. Included in this bill are provisions for the Public Information Programs, including the Federal Depository Library Program, Cataloging, and the National Collection. The Sales Program and GPO Administrative provisions are also included. Follow the progress of the bill at Congress.gov.
Feedback from the Request for Comments on the legislative proposals GPO sent to the Congress in July 2020. The comment period ran from January 28, 2021 to March 21, 2021.
08/10/2020 – Office of the Superintendent of Documents