---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 736"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "736"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/736"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — General"
  - "Chapter 7 — Government Accountability Office"
  - "Subchapter III — Personnel"
---

# §736. Authorization of appropriations


Amounts necessary to carry out this subchapter and subchapter IV of this chapter may be appropriated to the Comptroller General.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 900.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 736 | 31:52–7. | Feb. 15, 1980, Pub. L. 96–191, § 9, 94 Stat. 34. |

The word “hereby” is omitted as surplus. The words “to the Comptroller General” are added for consistency. The words “beginning fiscal year 1981 and for each fiscal year thereafter” are omitted as executed.