Title 2 — The Congress
Part I · Chapter 9 — Office of Legislative Counsel
§ 281. Establishment
Statutory text
There is established in the House of Representatives an office to be known as the Office of the Legislative Counsel, referred to hereinafter in this subchapter as the “Office”.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970
Pub. L. 91–510 title V § 501 · 84 Stat. 1140
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 281
(Pub. L. 91–510, title V, § 501, Oct. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 1201.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–510, title V, § 501, Oct. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 1201.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 501. establishment There is established in the House of Representatives an office to be known as the Office of the Legislative Counsel, referred to hereinafter in this subtitle as the “Office”.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Subchapter effective , see section 601(5) of Pub. L. 91–510, set out as an Effective Date of 1970 Amendment note under section 4301 of this title.
Transfer of Functions; Nonapplicability of Sections 271 to 277 to the House
Pub. L. 91–510, title V, § 531, , 84 Stat. 1203, provided that anyone serving as Legislative Counsel on would continue as Legislative Counsel in accordance with this subchapter, and that all personnel, positions, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations of or for that part of the Office of the Legislative Counsel established under sections 271 to 277 of this title employed or held in or for the House of Representatives would be transferred to the Office established under this subchapter and, effective , those sections were without further appicability.