Title 2 — The Congress
Part B · Chapter 45 — Congressional Pay and Benefits
§ 4523. Deductions for delinquent indebtedness
Statutory text
Whenever a Representative, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or a United States Senator, shall fail to pay any sum or sums due from such person to the House of Representatives or Senate, respectively, the appropriate committee or officer of the House of Representatives or Senate, as the case may be, having jurisdiction of the activity under which such debt arose, shall certify such delinquent sum or sums to the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives in the case of an indebtedness to the House of Representatives and to the Secretary of the Senate in the case of an indebtedness to the Senate, and such latter officials are authorized and directed, respectively, to deduct from any salary, mileage, or expense money due to any such delinquent such certified amounts or so much thereof as the balance or balances due such delinquent may cover. Sums so deducted by the Secretary of the Senate shall be disposed of by him in accordance with existing law, and sums so deducted by the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall be disposed of by him in accordance with existing law.
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.
Pub. L. 73–648 · 48 Stat. 1021
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 4523
June 19, 1934, ch. 648, title I, § 1, 48 Stat. 1024
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 19, 1934, ch. 648, title I, § 1, 48 Stat. 1024House of Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act
Pub. L. 104–186 title II § 203(8) · 110 Stat. 1718
Substituted · 2 U.S.C. § 4523
Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives in” for “Sergeant at Arms of the House in”
Substituted · 2 U.S.C. § 4523
Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall be” for “Sergeant at Arms of the House shall be paid to the Clerk of the House and”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives in” for “Sergeant at Arms of the House in” and “Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall be” for “Sergeant at Arms of the House shall be paid to the Clerk of the House and”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(8) The proviso in the last undesignated paragraph under the center heading “LEGISLATIVE ESTABLISHMENT’ and the center subheading “HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES” in the Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934 (2 U.S.C. 40a) is amended— (A) by striking out “Sergeant at Arms of the House” the first place it appears and inserting in lieu thereof “Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives”; and (B) by striking out “Sergeant at Arms of the House shall be paid to the Clerk of the House and” inserting in lieu thereof “Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall be”.
2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 40a of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Amendments
1996—Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives in” for “Sergeant at Arms of the House in” and “Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall be” for “Sergeant at Arms of the House shall be paid to the Clerk of the House and”.
Credits
1934–1996 · 2 acts
- 1934June 19, 1934, ch. 648, title I, § 1, 48 Stat. 1024
- 1996Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 203(8), , 110 Stat. 1726.
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(June 19, 1934, ch. 648, title I, § 1, 48 Stat. 1024; Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 203(8), , 110 Stat. 1726.)