1993 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-73 substituted ''Blind or Severely Disabled'' for ''Blind and Severely Disabled'' in introductory provisions. 1992 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-569 substituted ''From People Who Are Blind and Severely Disabled'' for ''from the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped'' in introductory provisions. 1991 - Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 102-54 substituted ''Department of Veterans Affairs'' for ''Veterans' Administration''. 1976 - Subsec. (i). Pub. L. 94-273 substituted ''December 31'' for ''September 30''. 1974 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93-358, Sec. 1(1)(A), (B), substituted ''Committee for Purchase from Blind and Other Severely Handicapped'' for ''Committee for Purchase of Products and Services of the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped'' and ''fifteen'' for ''fourteen'' in provisions preceding par. (1).

Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 93-358, Sec. 1(1)(C), (D), struck out ''and other severely handicapped individuals'' after ''employment of the blind'' in subpar. (A), added subpar. (B), and redesignated former subpars. (B) and (C) as (C) and (D), respectively.

Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 93-358, Sec. 1(2)(A), substituted ''paragraphs (2), (3), and (4)'' for ''paragraphs (2) and (3)''. Subsec. (d)(4). Pub. L. 93-358, Sec. 1(2)(B), added par. (4). 1971 - Pub. L. 92-28, in substituting subsecs. (a) to (i) for former paragraph, among other changes: renamed Committee on Purchases of Blind-made Products as Committee for Purchase of Products and Services of the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped; increased membership of Committee from seven to fourteen members; provided for appointments from Departments of Defense, Air Force, Health, Education, and Welfare, Justice, and Labor and from Veterans' Administration and General Services Administration; eliminated appointments from Treasury Department and Department of Interior; substituted appointment from Department of the Army for appointment from War Department; required one appointee to be also conversant with problems incident to employment of other severely handicapped individuals; substituted requirement that such appointment be from persons not officers or employees of the Government rather than that he be a private citizen; reenacted provision for Presidential appointment; substituted subsec. (e) pay and travel expenses provisions for former requirement for service of Committee members without additional compensation; incorporated in subsec. (c) provision for selection of a Chairman, substituting ''election'' for ''designation''; and inserted provisions incorporated in subsecs. (a)(1) (for nomination by head of each department and agency of one officer or employee of the department or agency for appointment under par. (1)), (a)(2)(B), (C), (b), (d), and (f) to (i)

Section 2 of Pub. L. 92-28 provided that: ''The amendment made by the first section of this Act (amending this section and sections 47 and 48 and enacting sections 48a to 48c of this title) shall take effect on the first day of the first month which begins more than thirty days after the date of enactment of this Act (June 23, 1971).''

Section 7 of act June 25, 1938, as added by Pub. L. 103-355, title X, Sec. 10005(f)(6), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3409, provided that: ''This Act (enacting this section and sections 47 to 48c of this title) may be cited as the 'Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act'.'

For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions in subsec. (i) of this section relating to the requirement that the Committee transmit a report to Congress each year, see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104-66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and page 199 of House Document No. 103-7.

References in laws to the rates of pay for GS-16, 17, or 18, or to maximum rates of pay under the General Schedule, to be considered references to rates payable under specified sections of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, see section 529 (title I, Sec. 101(c)(1)) of Pub. L. 101-509, set out in a note under section 5376 of Title 5