Title 2 — The Congress
Part B · Chapter 45 — Congressional Pay and Benefits
§ 4592. Payment of sums due deceased Senators and Senate personnel
Statutory text
Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Senate, a person serving as a Senator or officer or employee whose compensation is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate may designate a beneficiary or beneficiaries to be paid any unpaid balance of salary or other sums due such person at the time of his death. When any person dies while so serving, any such unpaid balance shall be paid by the disbursing officer of the Senate to the designated beneficiary or beneficiaries. If no designation has been made, such unpaid balance shall be paid to the widow or widower of that person, or if there is no widow or widower, to the next of kin or heirs at law of that person.
Section 50 of the Revised Statutes 1 shall not be effective as to persons included within the foregoing.
Footnotes
- 1See References in Text note below.
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. 81–1213 · 64 Stat. 1223
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 4592
Jan. 6, 1951, ch. 1213, Ch. I, § 1, 64 Stat. 1224
Source evidence
Code source credit
Jan. 6, 1951, ch. 1213, Ch. I, § 1, 64 Stat. 1224Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1973
Pub. L. 92–607 · 86 Stat. 1498
Inserted · 2 U.S.C. § 4592
Pub. L. 92–607 inserted provisions for designation of a beneficiary by Senators and officers and employees whose compensation is disbursed by Secretary of Senate to whom shall be paid any unpaid balance of salary or other sums due such person at time of death
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 92–607 inserted provisions for designation of a beneficiary by Senators and officers and employees whose compensation is disbursed by Secretary of Senate to whom shall be paid any unpaid balance of salary or other sums due such person at time of death.
0 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 2 partial
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 50 of the Revised Statutes, referred to in text, was classified to section 38 of this title and was repealed by Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 203(4), , 110 Stat. 1725. See section 5305 of this title.
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 36a of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Amendments
1972—Pub. L. 92–607 inserted provisions for designation of a beneficiary by Senators and officers and employees whose compensation is disbursed by Secretary of Senate to whom shall be paid any unpaid balance of salary or other sums due such person at time of death.
Credits
1951–1972 · 2 acts
- 1951Jan. 6, 1951, ch. 1213, Ch. I, § 1, 64 Stat. 1224
- 1972Pub. L. 92–607, ch. V, § 503, , 86 Stat. 1505.
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(Jan. 6, 1951, ch. 1213, Ch. I, § 1, 64 Stat. 1224; Pub. L. 92–607, ch. V, § 503, , 86 Stat. 1505.)