---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 4511"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "4511"
heading: "Expenditures and audit"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/4511"
units:
  - "Chapter 57 — James Madison Memorial Fellowship Program"
---

# §4511. Expenditures and audit

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-4) of the Treasury is authorized to pay to the [Foundation](/usc/20/4514.md?p=2) from the interest and earnings of the fund such sums as the [Board](/usc/20/4514.md?p=1) determines are necessary and appropriate to enable the [Foundation](/usc/20/4514.md?p=2) to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
- (b) The activities of the [Foundation](/usc/20/4514.md?p=2) under this chapter may be audited by the Government Accountability Office under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States. The representatives of the Government Accountability Office shall have access to all books, accounts, records, reports, and files and all other papers, things, or property belonging to or in use by the [Foundation](/usc/20/4514.md?p=2), pertaining to such activities and necessary to facilitate the audit.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–500, § 101(b) [title VIII, § 812], Oct. 18, 1986, 100 Stat. 1783–39, 1783–80, and Pub. L. 99–591, § 101(b) [title VIII, § 812], Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341–39, 3341–80; Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), July 7, 2004, 118 Stat. 814.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Pub. L. 99–591 is a corrected version of Pub. L. 99–500.

### Amendments

2004—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office” in two places.