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 PUBLIC LAW 95-380—SEPT. 22, 1978

92 STAT. 725

Public Law 95-380 95th Congress An Act To authorize the issuance of substitute Treasury checks without undertakings of indemnity, except as the Secretary of the Treasury may require.

Sept. 22, 1978 [H.R. 13087]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (a) Substitute of section 3646 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as Treasury checks amended (31 U.S.C. 528(a)), is further amended by striking out without "upon receipt and approval by the Secretary of the Treasury of an indemnity, authorization. undertaking to indemnify the United States, m such form and amount and with such surety, sureties or security, if any, as the Secretary of the Treasury may require;". SEC. 2. Subsection (b) of section 3646 of the Revised Statutes of Exceptions the United States, as amended (31 U.S.C. 528(b)), is further amended to read as follows: "(b) The Secretary of the Treasury, may, before issuance of a substitute check, require from the owner or holder of the check an undertaking to indemnify the United States, in the form and amount r'f<,:^«ys& and with the surety or security the Secretary believes necessary.". Approved September 22, 1978.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 95-1320 (Coram, on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs). SENATE REPORT No. 95-1176 (Comm. on Governmental Affairs). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 124 (1978): July 10, considered and passed House. Sept. 12, considered and passed Senate.

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