---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 1303"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "1303"
heading: "Effect of changes in titles of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/1303"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — The Budget Process"
  - "Chapter 13 — Appropriations"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
---

# §1303. Effect of changes in titles of appropriations


Expenditures for a particular object or purpose authorized by a law (and referred to in that law by the specific title previously used for the appropriation item in the appropriation law concerned) may be made from a corresponding appropriation item when the specific title is changed or eliminated from a later appropriation law.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 917.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 1303 | 31:581(note). | Sept. 12, 1950, ch. 946, § 302(b), 64 Stat. 844. |