---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 2703"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "2703"
heading: "Functions of the Committee"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/2703"
units:
  - "Chapter 27 — Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress"
---

# §2703. Functions of the Committee


The Committee shall—

- (1) review the management and preservation of the [records](/usc/44/2901.md?p=1) of Congress;
- (2) report to and advise the Congress and the [Archivist](/usc/44/2901.md?p=12) of the United States on such management and preservation; and
- (3)
  - (A) no later than December 31, 1991, conduct a study and submit a report to the Congress on—
    - (i) the effect any transfer of [records](/usc/44/2901.md?p=1) of the National Archives and [Records](/usc/44/2901.md?p=1) Administration from facilities located in Washington, D.C., to any location outside of Washington, D.C., shall have on the management and preservation of the [records](/usc/44/2901.md?p=1) of Congress; and
    - (ii) the five year plan for the management and preservation of the [records](/usc/44/2901.md?p=1) of Congress; and
  - (B) no later than December 31, 1995, conduct a study to update the report submitted under [subparagraph (A)(ii)](#3-A-ii), and submit a report to the Congress.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–509, title IV, § 1(d)(1), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1418.)