---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 1438a"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "1438a"
heading: "Nonadministrative expenses; expenses of studies and investigations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/1438a"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Federal Home Loan Banks"
---

# §1438a. Nonadministrative expenses; expenses of studies and investigations


On and after July 12, 1960, expenses of the [Board](/usc/12/1861.md?p=b-3) in making studies or investigations specifically directed by law, or requested by the Congress or either House thereof or by a committee of either House, including services authorized by [section 3109 of title 5](/usc/5/3109.md), shall be considered as nonadministrative expenses.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–626, title II, § 201, July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 441.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

“Section 3109 of title 5” substituted in text for “section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a)” on authority of section 7(b) of Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, section 1 of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.