---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 508"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "508"
heading: "Annual estimates of quantity of paper required for public printing and binding"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/508"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Production and Procurement of Printing and Binding"
---

# §508. Annual estimates of quantity of paper required for public printing and binding


At the beginning of each session of Congress, the Director of the Government Publishing Office shall submit to the Joint Committee on Printing estimates of the quantity of paper of all descriptions required for the public printing and binding during the ensuing year.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1244; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 36 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 26, 28 Stat. 604).

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer”.