An Act to permit the use of statistical sampling procedures in the examination of vouchers
PL 88-521 (H.R.10446), enacted 08/30/1964

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PUBLIC LAW 88-521-AUG. 30, 1964 
Public Law 88-521 
[78 STAT. 
Aiigust 30, 1964 
AN ACT 
[ . . 10446] 
rpy permit the use of statistical sampling procedures in the examination of 
vouchers. 
Vouchers. 
Statistical 
sampling proce-
dures. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, (a) That, when-
ever the head of any department or agency of the Government or 
the Commissioners of the District of Columbia determines that 
economies will result therefrom, such agency head or the Commis-
sioners may prescribe the use of adequate and effective statistical 
sampling procedures in the examination of disbursement vouchers 
for amounts of less than $100; and no certifying or disbursing officer 
acting in good faith and in conformity with such procedures shall be 
held liable with respect to any certification or payment made by him 
on a voucher which was not subject to specific examination because of 
the prescribed statistical sampling procedure, provided that such 
officer and his department or agency have diligently pursued collec-
tion action to recover the illegal, improjper, or incorrect payment in 
accordance with procedures prescribed by the Comptroller General. 
(b) Nothing contained in this Act shall affect the liability, or 
authorize the relief, of any payee, beneficiary, or recipient of any 
illegal, improper, or incorrect payment, or relieve any certifying or 
disbursing officer, the head of any department or agency of the 
Government, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or the 
Comptroller General of responsibility to pursue collection action 
against any such payee, beneficiary, or recipient. 
Approved August 30, 1964. 
August 30, 1964 
[H. R. 9436] 
Public Law 88-522 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of September 2, 1958, to establish a Commission and 
Advisory Committee on International Rules of Judicial Procedure, as 
amended. 
Commission and 
Advisory Com-
mittee on Inter-
national Rules of 
Judicial Proce-
dure. 
72 Stat. 1743. 
Termination 
date. 
75 Stat, 685. 
Appropriation. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (c) 
of section 3 of the Act of September 2, 1958 (Public Law 85-906), is 
amended to read: 
"(c) Five members shall constitute a quorum." 
SEC. 2. Subsection (e) of section 3 of that Act is amended to 
read: 
"(e) The public members of the Commission shall each receive 
$50 per diem when engaged in the actual performance of duties vested 
in the Commission, and the public members and the members who are 
officials of State government shall receive reimbursement for travel, 
subsistence, and other expenses incurred by them in the perfonn-
ance of such duties." 
SEC. 3. The second paragraph of subsection (b) of section 7 of that 
Act is further amended to read: 
"The Commission shall submit its final report and the Commission 
and the Advisory Committee shall terminate and wind up their affairs 
prior to December 31,1966." 
SEC. 4. Section 8 of that Act is amended to read: 
"SEC. 8. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of 
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts 
as may be necessary to carrv out the provisions of this Act." 
Approved August 30, 1964.