{{Use American English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox U.S. legislation | shorttitle = Kahn–Wadsworth Act | othershorttitles = | longtitle = An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to transfer certain surplus motor-propelled vehicles and motor equipment and road-making material to various services and departments of the Government, and for the use of the States. | colloquialacronym = | nickname = Military Surplus Act of 1920 | enacted by = 66th | announced in = <!--like "enacted by" but for proposed/unpassed legislation--> | effective date = March 15, 1920 | public law url = | cite public law = {{uspl|66|159}} | cite statutes at large = {{usstat|41|530}}, Chap. 100 | acts amended = | acts repealed = | title amended = <!--US code titles changed--> | sections created = <!--{{USC}} can be used--> | sections amended = | leghisturl = | introducedin = Senate | introducedbill = {{USBill|66|S|3037}} | introducedby = <!--sponsor(s); use {{uspolabbr}} for party/district--> | introduceddate = | committees = | passedbody1 = | passeddate1 = | passedvote1 = | passedbody2 = | passedas2 = <!-- used if the second body changes the name of the legislation --> | passeddate2 = | passedvote2 = | conferencedate = | passedbody3 = | passeddate3 = | passedvote3 = | agreedbody3 = <!-- used when the other body agrees without going into committee --> | agreeddate3 = <!-- used when the other body agrees without going into committee --> | agreedvote3 = <!-- used when the other body agrees without going into committee --> | agreedbody4 = <!-- used if agreedbody3 further amends legislation --> | agreeddate4 = <!-- used if agreedbody3 further amends legislation --> | agreedvote4 = <!-- used if agreedbody3 further amends legislation --> | passedbody4 = | passeddate4 = | passedvote4 = | signedpresident = Woodrow Wilson | signeddate = March 15, 1920 | amendments = | SCOTUS cases = }} The '''Military Surplus Act''' (or '''Kahn-Wadsworth Act''') was signed into US law by the 66th US Congress in 1920.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Tg2AdLxpi98C&q=Military+Surplus+Act+(Kahn-Wadsworth+Act) Disposal of Surplus War Materials: Policies and Procedures, 1918-1926, Report of the War Contracts Subcommittee, September 25, 1944], 1944, page 91</ref> Sponsored by Representative Julius Kahn (R) of California and Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. (R) of New York, it distributed 25,000 surplus army trucks to state highway departments for road-building purposes.
==See also== * National Defense Act of 1920
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