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Title 2 — The Congress

Part B · Chapter 45 — Congressional Pay and Benefits

§ 4595. Payment for unaccrued leave

Statutory text

(a)

In general

The Financial Clerk of the Senate is authorized to accept from an individual whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary of 1 Senate a payment representing pay for any period of unaccrued annual leave used by that individual, as certified by the head of the employing office of the individual making the payment.

(b)

Withholding

The Financial Clerk of the Senate is authorized to withhold the amount referred to in subsection (a) from any amount which is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and which is due to or on behalf of the individual described in subsection (a).

(c)

Deposit

Any payment accepted under this section shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

(d)

“Head of the employing office” defined

As used in this section, the term “head of the employing office” means any person with the final authority to appoint, hire, discharge, and set the terms, conditions, or privileges of the employment of an individual whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate.

(e)

Applicability

This section shall apply to fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter.

Footnotes

  1. 1 So in original. Probably should be followed by “the”.

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. 104–197 title I § 9 · 110 Stat. 2394

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 4595

    (Pub. L. 104–197, title I, § 9, Sept. 16, 1996, 110 Stat. 2398.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 104–197, title I, § 9, Sept. 16, 1996, 110 Stat. 2398.)

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

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 60p of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is from the Congressional Operations Appropriations Act, 1997, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1997.

Credits

(Pub. L. 104–197, title I, § 9, , 110 Stat. 2398.)

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