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PUBLIC LAW 88-521-AUG. 30, 1964

[78 STAT.

Public Law 88-521 Aiigust 30, 1964

[.. 10446]

Vouchers. Statistical sampling procedures.

AN ACT

rpy permit the use of statistical sampling procedures in the examination of vouchers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (a) That, whenever the head of any department or agency of the Government or the Commissioners of the District of Columbia determines that economies will result therefrom, such agency head or the Commissioners may prescribe the use of adequate and effective statistical sampling procedures in the examination of disbursement vouchers for amounts of less than $100; and no certifying or disbursing officer acting in good faith and in conformity with such procedures shall be held liable with respect to any certification or payment made by him on a voucher which was not subject to specific examination because of the prescribed statistical sampling procedure, provided that such officer and his department or agency have diligently pursued collection action to recover the illegal, improjper, or incorrect payment in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Comptroller General. (b) Nothing contained in this Act shall affect the liability, or authorize the relief, of any payee, beneficiary, or recipient of any illegal, improper, or incorrect payment, or relieve any certifying or disbursing officer, the head of any department or agency of the Government, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or the Comptroller General of responsibility to pursue collection action against any such payee, beneficiary, or recipient. Approved August 30, 1964. Public Law 88-522

August 30, 1964 [H. R. 9436]

Commission and Advisory Committee on International Rules of Judicial Procedure. 72 Stat. 1743.

Termination date. 75 Stat, 685.

Appropriation.

AN ACT To amend the Act of September 2, 1958, to establish a Commission and Advisory Committee on International Rules of Judicial Procedure, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (c) of section 3 of the Act of September 2, 1958 (Public Law 85-906), is amended to read: "(c) Five members shall constitute a quorum." SEC. 2. Subsection (e) of section 3 of that Act is amended to read: "(e) The public members of the Commission shall each receive $50 per diem when engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Commission, and the public members and the members who are officials of State government shall receive reimbursement for travel, subsistence, and other expenses incurred by them in the perfonnance of such duties." SEC. 3. The second paragraph of subsection (b) of section 7 of that Act is further amended to read: "The Commission shall submit its final report and the Commission and the Advisory Committee shall terminate and wind up their affairs prior to December 31, 1966." SEC. 4. Section 8 of that Act is amended to read: "SEC. 8. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as may be necessary to carrv out the provisions of this Act." Approved August 30, 1964.

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