---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 2118"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "2118"
heading: "Records of Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/2118"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — National Archives and Records Administration"
---

# §2118. Records of Congress


The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, acting jointly, shall obtain at the close of each Congress all the noncurrent [records](/usc/44/2901.md?p=1) of the Congress and of each congressional committee and transfer them to the National Archives and [Records](/usc/44/2901.md?p=1) [Administration](/usc/44/2101.md?p=4) for preservation, subject to the orders of the Senate or the House of Representatives, respectively.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1291, § 2114; renumbered § 2118 and amended Pub. L. 98–497, title I, §§ 102(a)(1), 107(a)(10), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2280, 2286.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 402 (Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 753, title I, § 140, 60 Stat. 833).

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–497, § 107(a)(10)), substituted “National Archives and Records Administration” for “General Services Administration”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 98–497 effective Apr. 1, 1985, see section 301 of Pub. L. 98–497, set out as a note under section 2102 of this title.