20 U.S.C. § 4707: Barry Goldwater Scholarship…

Summary

Creates the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Fund in the U.S. Treasury. The fund holds money given by Congress under section 4711 and other amounts credited to it. The Treasury Secretary must invest the fund mostly in U.S. government debt with suitable maturities. The Secretary can buy new issues or buy on the market. Special Treasury notes can be issued just for the fund at par and pay interest equal to the average rate on marketable U.S. debt, rounded down to the next lower 1/8 of 1 percent, but only if the Secretary decides other purchases would not be in the public interest. After December 27, 2021, the Secretary may also invest Foundation money in other securities if the Board says it is necessary and the securities trade in established U.S. markets. The Board can still increase the number of scholarships or the stipend amounts under sections 4704 and 4705. Interest, sale proceeds, and redemptions from fund investments must go back into the fund, and the Secretary may sell fund obligations at market price.

Title 20, §4707

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(a)Establishment of fund

There is established in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Fund. The fund shall consist of amounts appropriated to it pursuant to section 4711 of this title and amounts credited to it under subsection (d).

(b)Investment of fund assets

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to invest in full the amounts appropriated to the fund. Such investments may be made only in public debt securities of the United States with maturities suitable to the fund. For such purpose, such obligations may be acquired (1) on original issue at the issue price, or (2) by purchase of outstanding obligations at the market place. The purposes for which obligations of the United States may be issued under chapter 31 of title 31 are hereby extended to authorize the issuance at par of special obligations exclusively to the fund. Such special obligations shall bear interest at a rate equal to the average rate of interest, computed as to the end of the calendar month next preceding the date of such issue, borne by all marketable interest-bearing obligations of the United States then forming a part of the public debt, except that where such average rate is not a multiple of ⅛ of 1 percent, the rate of interest of such special obligations shall be the multiple of ⅛ of 1 percent next lower than such average rate. Such special obligations shall be issued only if the Secretary determines that the purchases of other interest-bearing obligations of the United States, or of obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States or original issue or at the market price, is not in the public interest.

(c)Investment in securities

Notwithstanding subsection (b), the Secretary of the Treasury may invest any public or private funds received by the Foundation after December 27, 2021, in securities other than or in addition to public debt securities of the United States, if—

(1)the Secretary receives a determination from the Board that such investments are necessary to enable the Foundation to carry out the purposes of this chapter; and

(2)the securities in which such funds are invested are traded in established United States markets.

(d)Construction

Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the authority of the Board to increase the number of scholarships provided under section 4704 of this title, or to increase the amount of the stipend authorized by section 4705 of this title, as the Board considers appropriate and is otherwise consistent with the requirements of this chapter.

(d)1 Authority to sell obligations

Any obligation acquired by the fund may be sold by the Secretary at the market price.

(e)Proceeds from certain transactions credited to fund

The interest on, and the proceeds from the sale or redemption of, any obligations held in the fund shall be credited to and form a part of the fund.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 4704 and 4705 of this title, referred to in subsec. (d) relating to

Construction

, were references to section 4704 and 4705 in the original but probably should have been references to section 1405 and 1406, respectively, of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Act, Pub. L. 99–661, div. A, title XIV, which are classified to section 4704 and 4705 of this title. Codification In subsec. (b), “chapter 31 of title 31” substituted for “the Second Liberty Bond Act” on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.

Amendments

2021—Subsecs. (c) to (e). Pub. L. 117–81 added subsec. (c) and subsec. (d) relating to contruction and redesignated former subsecs. (c) and (d) as (d) and (e), respectively. 1992—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102–484 struck out “(except special obligations issued exclusively to the fund)” after “by the fund”. 1991—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–190, § 1089(2)(A), substituted “public debt securities of the United States with maturities suitable to the fund.” for “interest-bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States.” Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102–190, § 1089(2)(B)(ii), struck out “, and such special obligations may be redeemed at par plus accrued interest” after “market price”. Pub. L. 102–190, § 1089(2)(B)(i), which directed striking out of “(exceptional special obligations issued exclusively to the fund)”, could not be executed because those words did not appear. See 1992 Amendment note above.

§4707 Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Fund