An Act fixing the representation of the majority and minority membership of the Joint Economic Committee.
PL 86-1 (S.961), enacted 02/17/1959

Public Laws 
ENACTED DURING THE 
FIRST SESSION OF THE EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS 
OF THE 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
Begun and held at the City of Washington 
on Wednesday, January 
7, 1959, and 
adjourned sine die on Tuesday, September 15, 1959. 
DWIGHT D . 
EISENHOWER, 
President; RICHARD M . NIXON, Vice President; SAM RAYBURN, Speaker of the House 
of Representatives. 
Public Law 86-1 
A N A C T 
February 17, 1959 
Fixing the representation of the majority and minority membership of the Joint 
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Economic Committee. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 5(a) com^tteef°"°'"^*' 
of the Employment Act of 1946, as amended (60 Stat. 23, Public Law 
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304, Seventh-ninth Congress), is amended to read as follows: 
"(a) There is established a Joint Economic Committee, to be com-
posed of eight Members of the Senate, to be appointed by the President 
of the Senate, and eight Members of the House of Representatives, to 
be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. In each 
case, the majority party shall be represented by five Members and the 
minority party shall be represented by three Members." 
Approved February 17, 1959. 
Public Law 86-2 
AN ACT 
March 17, 1959 
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to permit the temporary 
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listing and certification of Citrus Red No. 2 for coloring mature oranges under 
tolerances found safe by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 
so as to permit continuance of established coloring practice in the orange 
industry pending congressional consideration of general legislation for the 
listing and certification of food color additives under safe tolerances. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America ifi Congress assembled, That (a) the second coTo'i-fn'^f ' ^' ^°°^ 
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proviso of section 402(c) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
Act is amended by striking out "March 1, 1959," and inserting in lieu 
thereof "May 1,1959,". 
(b) The third proviso of section 402(c) of such Act is amended 
to read as follows: ^^And provided further, That, without regard to 
ci use 346,371. the requirements of sections 406(b) and 701(e), the Secretary shall 
promptly establish, and may from time to time amend, regulations 
(1) prescribing the conditions (including quantitative tolerance limi-
tations) under which the coal-tar color known as Citrus Red No. 2 
(more particularly to be defined in such regulations) may be safely 
used in coloring the skins of oranges which are not intended or used 
for processing (or, if so used, are oranges designated in the trade as 
'packing house elimination'), and which meet minimum maturity 
standards established by or imder the laws of the States in which 
the oranges are grown, (2) providing for separately listing such 
color solely for such use on such oranges, and (3) providing for the 
certification of batches of such color, with or without harmless 
diluents, for such restricted use; and such oranges, if colored prior to 
September 1, 1961, and to the enactment by the Congress (subsequent 
to the date of enactment of this proviso) of general legislation for 
the listing and certification of food color additives under safe toler-
ances, in conformity with this proviso and such regulations, with 
Citrus Red No. 2 from a batch certified in accordance with such 
i-egulations, shall not be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning 
of this paragraph." 
Approved March 17, 1959. 
March 18, 1959 
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Public Law 86-3 
AN ACT 
To provide for the aclmissiou of the State of Hawaii into the Union. 
Hawaii, st at e-
hood. 
Territory. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That, subject to the 
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rovisions of this Act, and upon issuance of the proclamation required 
y section 7(c) of this Act, the State of Hawaii is hereby declared to 
be .a State of the United States of America, is declared admitted into 
the Union on an equal footing with the other States in all respects 
whatever, and the constitution formed pursuant to the provisions of 
the Act of the Territorial Legislature of Hawaii entitled "An Act to 
provide for a constitutional convention, the adoption of a State con-
stitution, and the forwarding of the same to thie Congress of the United 
States, and appropriating money therefor", approved May 20, 1949 
(Act 334, Session Laws of Hawaii, 1949), and adopted by a vote of the 
people of Hawaii in the election held on November 7, 1950, is hereby 
found to be republican in form and in conformity with the Constitu-
tion of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of 
Independence, and is hereby accepted, ratified, and confirmed. 
SEC. 2. The State of Hawaii shall consist of all the islands, together 
with their appurtenant reefs and territorial waters, included in the 
Territory of Hawaii on the date of enactment of this Act, except the 
atoll known as Palmyra Island, together with its appurtenant reefs 
and territorial waters, but said State shall not be deemed to include the 
Midway Islands, Johnston Island, Sand Island (offshore from Johns-
ton Island), or Kingman Reef, together with their appurtenant reefs 
and territorial waters.