§ 4901. Congressional pages

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. 1970

   Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970

   Pub. L. 91–510 title IV § 491(a) · 84 Stat. 1140

   Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 4901

   Pub. L. 91–510, title IV, § 491(a)–(d), Oct. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 1198

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 91–510, title IV, § 491(a)–(d), Oct. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 1198

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (a) A person shall not be appointed as a page of the Senate or House of Representatives— (1) unless he agrees that, in the absence of unforeseen circumstances preventing his service as a page after his appointment, he will continue to serve as a page for a period of not less than two months; and (2) until complete information in writing is transmitted to his parent or parents, his legal guardian, or other appropriate person or persons acting as his parent or parents, with respect to the nature of the work of pages, their pay, their working conditions (including hours and scheduling of work), and the housing accommodations available to pages.

2. 1981

   Pub. L. 97–51 · 95 Stat. 958

   Struck · 2 U.S.C. § 4901(c); 2 U.S.C. § 4901(d)

   Pub. L. 97–51 struck out subsecs. (c) and (d) which had provided, respectively, that pay of pages of the Senate began not more than five days before the convening or reconvening of a session of the Congress or of the Senate and continued until the end of the month during which the Congress or the Senate adjourned or recessed or until the fourteenth day after such adjournment or recess, whichever was the later date, except that, in any case in which the Congress or the Senate adjourned or recessed on or before the last day of July for a period of at least thirty days but not more than forty-five days, such pay would continue until the end of such period of adjournment or recess, and that the pay of pages of the House of Representatives began not more than five days before the convening of a session of the Congress and continued until the end of the month during which the Congress adjourned sine die or recessed or until the fourteenth day after such adjournment or recess, whichever was the later date, except that, in any case in which the House adjourned or recessed on or before the last day of July in any year for a period of at least thirty days but not more than forty-five days, such pay would continue until the end of such period of adjournment or recess

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 97–51 struck out subsecs. (c) and (d) which had provided, respectively, that pay of pages of the Senate began not more than five days before the convening or reconvening of a session of the Congress or of the Senate and continued until the end of the month during which the Congress or the Senate adjourned or recessed or until the fourteenth day after such adjournment or recess, whichever was the later date, except that, in any case in which the Congress or the Senate adjourned or recessed on or before the last day of July for a period of at least thirty days but not more than forty-five days, such pay would continue until the end of such period of adjournment or recess, and that the pay of pages of the House of Representatives began not more than five days before the convening of a session of the Congress and continued until the end of the month during which the Congress adjourned sine die or recessed or until the fourteenth day after such adjournment or recess, whichever was the later date, except that, in any case in which the House adjourned or recessed on or before the last day of July in any year for a period of at least thirty days but not more than forty-five days, such pay would continue until the end of such period of adjournment or recess.

3. 1996

   House of Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act

   Pub. L. 104–186 § 204(36)(A) · 110 Stat. 1718

   Substituted · 2 U.S.C. § 4901(a)(1)

   Pub. L. 104–186, § 204(36)(A), substituted “the period specified in writing at the time of the appointment” for “a period of not less than two months”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 104–186, § 204(36)(A), substituted “the period specified in writing at the time of the appointment” for “a period of not less than two months”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (A) in subsection (a)(1), by striking out “a period of not less than two months” and inserting in lieu thereof “the period specified in writing at the time of the appointment”; and

4. 1996

   House of Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act

   Pub. L. 104–186 § 204(36)(B) · 110 Stat. 1718

   1. Substituted · 2 U.S.C. § 4901(b)

      Pub. L. 104–186, § 204(36)(B), substituted a period for “; or” at end of par. (2)

   2. Struck · 2 U.S.C. § 4901(b)

      Pub. L. 104–186, § 204(36)(B), struck out concluding provisions which read as follows: “(except in the case of a chief page, telephone page, or riding page) during any session of the Congress which begins after he has attained the age of eighteen years.”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104–186, § 204(36)(B), substituted a period for “; or” at end of par. (2) and struck out concluding provisions which read as follows: “(except in the case of a chief page, telephone page, or riding page) during any session of the Congress which begins after he has attained the age of eighteen years.”

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (B) in subsection (b), by striking out “; or” at the end of paragraph (2) and all that follows through the end of the subsection and inserting in lieu thereof a period.

5. 2004

   Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2005

   Pub. L. 108–447 div. G title I § 9 · 118 Stat. 2809

   Substituted · 2 U.S.C. § 4901(b)(1)

   Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “sixteen” for “fourteen”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “sixteen” for “fourteen”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 9. Age Requirement for Senate Pages. Section 491(b)(1) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (2 U.S.C. 88b–1(b)(1)) is amended by striking “fourteen” and inserting “sixteen”.

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