---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 717"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "717"
heading: "Appropriation chargeable for printing of document or report by order of Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/717"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Congressional Printing and Binding"
---

# §717. Appropriation chargeable for printing of document or report by order of Congress


The cost of the printing of a document or report printed by order of Congress which, under [section 1107 of this title](/usc/44/1107.md), cannot be properly charged to another appropriation or allotment of appropriation already made, upon order of the Joint Committee on Printing, shall be charged to the allotment of appropriation for printing and binding for Congress.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1250.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 144 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 2, 28 Stat. 601; Mar. 1, 1907, ch. 2284, § 1, 34 Stat. 1013).