---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 306"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "306"
heading: "Director of the Government Publishing Office: employment of skilled workmen; trial of skill"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/306"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Government Publishing Office"
---

# §306. Director of the Government Publishing Office: employment of skilled workmen; trial of skill


The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall employ workmen who are thoroughly skilled in their respective branches of industry, as shown by trial of their skill under the direction of the Director.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1240; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c), (i)(3), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537, 2538.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 41 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 45, 28 Stat. 607).

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(i)(3), substituted “the direction of the Director” for “his direction”.

Pub. L. 113–235, § 1301(c), substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” in section catchline and text.