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Title 2 — The Congress

Part A · Chapter 45 — Congressional Pay and Benefits

§ 4506. Death gratuity payments as gifts

Statutory text

Any death gratuity payment at any time specifically appropriated by any Act of Congress or at any time made out of the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives or the contingent fund of the Senate shall be held to have been a gift.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 82–369 · 66 Stat. 96

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 4506

    June 5, 1952, ch. 369, Ch. I, 66 Stat. 101

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 5, 1952, ch. 369, Ch. I, 66 Stat. 101

  2. House of Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act

    Pub. L. 104–186 title II § 203(6) · 110 Stat. 1718

    Substituted · 2 U.S.C. § 4506

    Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “applicable accounts of the House of Representatives or the contingent fund” for “contingent fund of the House of Representatives or”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “applicable accounts of the House of Representatives or the contingent fund” for “contingent fund of the House of Representatives or”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (6) The proviso in the first paragraph under the heading “LEGISLATIVE BRANCH” and the subheading “HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES” in chapter I of the Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952 (2 U.S.C. 38b; 2 U.S.C. 125a) is amended by striking out “contingent fund of the House of Representatives or” and inserting in lieu thereof “applicable accounts of the House of Representatives or the contingent fund”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified identically to sections 38b and 125a of this title. Section 38b was omitted from the Code and section 125a was editorially reclassified and renumbered as this section.

Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “applicable accounts of the House of Representatives or the contingent fund” for “contingent fund of the House of Representatives or”.

Credits

1952–1996 · 2 acts
  1. 1952June 5, 1952, ch. 369, Ch. I, 66 Stat. 101
  2. 1996Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 203(6), , 110 Stat. 1725.
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(June 5, 1952, ch. 369, Ch. I, 66 Stat. 101; Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 203(6), , 110 Stat. 1725.)

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