---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 179v"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "179v"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/179v"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Library of Congress"
---

# §179v. Authorization of appropriations


There are authorized to be appropriated to the [Librarian](/usc/2/179u.md?p=1) for the first fiscal year beginning on or after October 11, 1996, and each succeeding fiscal year through fiscal year 2026 such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of sections [179l](/usc/2/179l.md) to [179w](/usc/2/179w.md) of this title, but in no fiscal year shall such sum exceed $250,000.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–285, title I, § 112, Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3382; Pub. L. 110–336, § 3(a)(1)(A), Oct. 2, 2008, 122 Stat. 3727; Pub. L. 114–217, § 3(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 inserted “for the first fiscal year beginning on or after October 11, 1996, and each succeeding fiscal year through fiscal year 2016” after “the Librarian”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2008 Amendment

Pub. L. 110–336, § 3(a)(1)(C), Oct. 2, 2008, 122 Stat. 3727, provided that: “The amendments made by this paragraph [amending this section and section 179w of this title] shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the National Film Preservation Act of 1996 [Pub. L. 104–285, title I].”