Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)

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now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

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legal/us/code/title-31/chapter-13/section-1354.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "31 U.S.C. § 1354"
+description: "Limitation on use of appropriated funds for contracts with entities not meeting veterans’ employment reporting requirements"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 31
+title_name: "MONEY AND FINANCE"
+chapter_number: "13"
+chapter_name: "APPROPRIATIONS"
+section: "1354"
+citation: "31 U.S.C. § 1354"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc31@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t31/s1354"
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+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 31 U.S.C. § 1354 - Limitation on use of appropriated funds for contracts with entities not meeting veterans’ employment reporting requirements
+
+## Text
+
+(a) (1) Subject to paragraph (2), no agency may obligate or expend funds appropriated for the agency for a fiscal year to enter into a contract described in section 4212(a) of title 38 with a contractor from which a report was required under section 4212(d) of that title with respect to the preceding fiscal year if such contractor did not submit such report.
+
+(2) Paragraph (1) shall cease to apply with respect to a contractor otherwise covered by that paragraph on the date on which the contractor submits the report required by such section 4212(d) for the fiscal year concerned.
+
+(b) The Secretary of Labor shall make available in a database a list of the contractors that have complied with the provisions of such section 4212(d).
+
+(Added Pub. L. 105–339, § 7(b)(1), Oct. 31, 1998, 112 Stat. 3189.)