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Title 2 — The Congress

Part A · Chapter 45 — Congressional Pay and Benefits

§ 4538. Reimbursement of residential telecommunications expenses for House Members, officers, and employees

Statutory text

(a)

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, official resources may be used during a fiscal year (beginning with fiscal year 1999), in accordance with regulations of the Committee on House Oversight, to reimburse a Member, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives for the ordinary and necessary expenses related to the official use of telecommunications lines in the residence of the Member, officer, or employee.

(b)

The Committee on House Oversight shall promulgate such regulations as are necessary to implement this section.

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. 105–275 title I § 109 · 112 Stat. 2430

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 4538

    (Pub. L. 105–275, title I, § 109, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2439.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 105–275, title I, § 109, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2439.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 127b of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is from the Congressional Operations Appropriations Act, 1999, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1999.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on House Oversight of House of Representatives changed to Committee on House Administration of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Sixth Congress, .

Credits

(Pub. L. 105–275, title I, § 109, , 112 Stat. 2439.)

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