---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 1743"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "1743"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/1743"
units:
  - "Chapter 27 — Sound Recording Preservation by the Library of Congress"
  - "Subchapter IV — General Provisions"
---

# §1743. Authorization of appropriations


There are authorized to be appropriated to the [Librarian](/usc/2/1741.md?p=1) for the first fiscal year beginning on or after November 9, 2000, and each succeeding fiscal year through fiscal year 2026 such sums as may be necessary to carry out this chapter, except that the amount authorized for any fiscal year may not exceed $250,000.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–474, title I, § 133, Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2091; Pub. L. 110–336, § 2(a)(1)(A), Oct. 2, 2008, 122 Stat. 3726; Pub. L. 114–217, § 2(a), July 29, 2016, 130 Stat. 840.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2016—Pub. L. 114–217 substituted “through fiscal year 2026” for “through fiscal year 2016”.

2008—Pub. L. 110–336 substituted “for the first fiscal year beginning on or after November 9, 2000, and each succeeding fiscal year through fiscal year 2016” for “for each of the first 7 fiscal years beginning on or after November 9, 2000,”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2008 Amendment

Pub. L. 110–336, § 2(a)(1)(B), Oct. 2, 2008, 122 Stat. 3726, provided that: “The amendment made by subparagraph (A) [amending this section] shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 [Pub. L. 106–474].”