---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1070d–41"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "1070d–41"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/1070d-41"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Higher Education Resources and Student Assistance"
  - "Subchapter IV — Student Assistance"
  - "Part A — Grants to Students in Attendance at Institutions of Higher Education"
  - "Subpart 6 — robert c. byrd honors scholarship program"
---

# §1070d–41. Authorization of appropriations


There are authorized to be appropriated for this subpart such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2009 and each of the five succeeding fiscal years.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–329, title IV, § 419K, as added Pub. L. 99–498, title IV, § 401(a), Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1346; amended Pub. L. 102–325, title IV, § 406(h), July 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 509; Pub. L. 105–244, title IV, § 409(b), Oct. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1668; Pub. L. 110–315, title IV, § 409(b), Aug. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 3225.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1070d–41, Pub. L. 89–329, title IV, § 419K, as added Pub. L. 98–558, title VIII, § 801(a), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2902, authorized appropriations for fiscal years 1986 to 1988 to carry out Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program, prior to the general revision of this part by Pub. L. 99–498.

### Amendments

2008—Pub. L. 110–315 substituted “such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2009 and each of the five succeeding fiscal years” for “$45,000,000 for fiscal year 1999 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years”.

1998—Pub. L. 105–244 substituted “$45,000,000 for fiscal year 1999” for “$10,000,000 for fiscal year 1993”.

1992—Pub. L. 102–325 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section read as follows: “There are authorized to be appropriated for this subpart $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1987, and such sums as may be necessary for the 4 succeeding fiscal years.”

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1998 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 105–244 effective Oct. 1, 1998, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 105–244, see section 3 of Pub. L. 105–244, set out as a note under section 1001 of this title.