---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 80r–7"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "80r–7"
heading: "Congressional Budget Act compliance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/80r-7"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries"
  - "Subchapter XIV — National Museum of African American History and Culture"
---

# §80r–7. Congressional Budget Act compliance


Authority under this subchapter to enter into contracts or to make payments shall be effective in any fiscal year only to the extent provided in advance in an appropriations Act, except as provided under [section 80r–9(b) of this title](/usc/20/80r–9.md?p=b).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–184, § 9, Dec. 16, 2003, 117 Stat. 2682.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Congressional Budget Act, referred to in section catchline, probably means the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, which is titles I through IX of Pub. L. 93–344, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 297. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 621 of Title 2, The Congress, and Tables.