---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 711"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "711"
heading: "Printing Acts, joint resolutions, and treaties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/711"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Congressional Printing and Binding"
---

# §711. Printing Acts, joint resolutions, and treaties


The Director of the Government Publishing Office, on receiving from the [Archivist](/usc/44/2901.md?p=12) of the United States a copy of an Act or joint resolution, or from the Secretary of State, a copy of a treaty, shall print an accurate copy and transmit it in duplicate to the [Archivist](/usc/44/2901.md?p=12) of the United States or to the Secretary of State, as the case may be, for revision. On the return of one of the revised duplicates, he shall make the marked corrections and print the number specified by [section 709 of this title](/usc/44/709.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1249; Pub. L. 98–497, title I, § 107(b)(1), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2286; 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., § 192 (R.S. § 3805; Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 56, 28 Stat. 609; 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 20, § 1, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3178, 64 Stat. 1272).

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

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

1984—Pub. L. 98–497 substituted “Archivist of the United States” for “Administrator of General Services” wherever appearing.

### 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.