---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 2009b"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "2009b"
heading: "Payment to Trust Fund; Board requests binding on Secretary"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/2009b"
units:
  - "Chapter 42 — Harry S Truman Memorial Scholarships"
---

# §2009b. Payment to Trust Fund; Board requests binding on Secretary


For payment to the Harry S Truman Scholarship [Foundation](/usc/20/2002.md?p=2) Trust [Fund](/usc/20/2002.md?p=3), established by [section 2009 of this title](/usc/20/2009.md), $500,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That on or after March 11, 2009, all requests of the [Board](/usc/20/2002.md?p=1) of Trustees to the [Secretary](/usc/20/2002.md?p=6) of the Treasury provided for in this section shall be binding on the [Secretary](/usc/20/2002.md?p=6), including requests for the issuance at par of special obligations exclusively to the [fund](/usc/20/2002.md?p=3) as provided for in [section 2009(b) of this title](/usc/20/2009.md?p=b), which the [Secretary](/usc/20/2002.md?p=6) shall implement without regard to the determination related to the public interest required by the last sentence of that section.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–8, div. D, title V, Mar. 11, 2009, 123 Stat. 665.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2009, and also as part of the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009, and not as part of the Harry S Truman Memorial Scholarship Act which comprises this chapter.