---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 705"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "705"
heading: "Duplicate orders to print"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/705"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Congressional Printing and Binding"
---

# §705. Duplicate orders to print


The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall examine the orders of the Senate and House of Representatives for printing, and in case of duplication shall print under the first order received.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1248; 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., § 135 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 53, 28 Stat. 608).

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

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