AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

SEC. 214. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. (a) In General.—There are authorized to be appropriated— (1) to carry out chapters 1, 2, and 3, $232,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2020 through 2025; and (2) to carry out chapter 4, $24,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 2020 through 2025. (b) Forward Funding.— (1) In general.—To the end of affording the responsible Federal, State, and local officers adequate notice of available Federal financial assistance for carrying out ongoing library activities and projects, appropriations for grants contracts, or other payments under any program under this subtitle are authorized to be included in the appropriations Act for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year during which such activities and projects shall be carried out. (2) Additional authorization of appropriations.—In order to effect a transition to the timing of appropriation action authorized by subsection (a), the application of this section may result in the enactment, in a fiscal year, of separate appropriations for a program under this subtitle (whether in the same appropriations Act or otherwise) for two consecutive fiscal years. [20 U.S.C. 9123] Enacted September 30, 1996, P.L. 104–208, title VII, sec. 702, 110 Stat. 3009–296, amended September 25, 2003, P.L. 108–81, title II, sec. 203, 117 Stat. 997, December 22, 2010, P.L. 111–340, title II, sec. 202, 124 Stat. 3599, December 31, 2018, P.L. 115-410, sec. 9, 132 Stat. 5416.