31 U.S.C. § 1101 - Definitions

• Cite as: 31 U.S.C. § 1101

In this chapter-

(1) "agency" includes the District of Columbia government but does not include the legislative branch or the Supreme Court.

(2) "appropriations" means appropriated amounts and includes, in appropriate context-

(A) funds;

(B) authority to make obligations by contract before appropriations; and

(C) other authority making amounts available for obligation or expenditure.

Cite as 31 U.S.C. § 1101

Source: Pub. L. 97-258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 907.

Notes from the Office of Law Revision Counsel

current through 12/20/2021

In the section, a reference to 31:71 and 471 is omitted because the definitions in the section are not used in 31:71 and 471.

In clause (1), "agency" (which is defined for purposes of this title in section 101 to mean a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States) is coextensive with and substituted for the term "department or establishment" which was defined in 31:2 as in part meaning "any executive department, independent commission, board, bureau, office, agency, or other establishment of the Government, including any independent regulatory commission or board". This definition merely restates and continues, and does not in any way change or expand, the definition in 31:2. Under that definition, entities such as the Tennessee Valley Authority that have been interpreted to be outside the purview of the definition will continue to be outside the purview in the same manner and to the same extent that they were under 31:2. The words "includes the District of Columbia government" are used because of existing law but the inclusion of these words is not to be interpreted as construing the extent to which the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganizational Act ( Pub. L. 93-198 87 Stat. 774) supersedes the provisions codified in this title. The words "of the United States" are omitted as surplus. The text of 31:2(2d-4th pars.) is omitted as unnecessary because of the restatement. The text of section 2(3d par.) of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921 (ch. 18, 42 Stat. 20), is omitted as obsolete because of section 501 of the revised title.

STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES

SHORT TITLE OF 2019 AMENDMENT

Pub. L. 115-414, §1, Jan. 3, 2019, 132 Stat. 5430, provided that: "This Act [amending section 720 of this title and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 1105 of this title] may be cited as the 'Good Accounting Obligation in Government Act' or the 'GAO-IG Act'."