Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 55 — House of Representatives Officers and Administration
§ 5506. Appropriations for expenses of House; restrictions
Statutory text
Appropriations made for expenses of the House of Representatives shall not be used for the payment of personal services except upon the express and specific authorization of the House in whose behalf such services are rendered. Nor shall such appropriations be used for any expenses not intimately and directly connected with the routine legislative business of the House of Representatives, and the Government Accountability Office shall apply the provisions of this section in the settlement of the accounts of expenditures from said appropriations incurred for services or materials.
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. 57–17 § 1 · 32 Stat. 5
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 5506
Feb. 14, 1902, ch. 17, § 1, 32 Stat. 26
Source evidence
Code source credit
Feb. 14, 1902, ch. 17, § 1, 32 Stat. 26House of Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act
Pub. L. 104–186 title II § 204(45) · 110 Stat. 1718
Substituted · 2 U.S.C. § 5506
Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “expenses of the House” for “contingent expenses of the House”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “expenses of the House” for “contingent expenses of the House”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(45) The proviso in the fifth paragraph under the heading 2 USC 68–2, 95a. “UNDER LEGISLATIVE.” and the subheading “SENATE.” in the first section of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for prior years, and for other purposes”, approved February 14, 1902 (2 U.S.C. 95a), is amended by striking out “contingent expenses of the House of Representatives or” and inserting in lieu thereof “expenses of the House of Representatives or contingent expenses of”.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 95a of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section was also formerly classified to section 671 of Title 31 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by Pub. L. 97–258, § 1, , 96 Stat. 877.
Section is based on provisions of proviso on 32 Stat. 26, act of Feb. 14, 1902, ch. 17, the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1902, relating to appropriations for contingent expenses of House of Representatives. Provisions of proviso relating to appropriations for expenses of Senate are classified to section 6505 of this title.
Amendments
1996—Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “expenses of the House” for “contingent expenses of the House”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer of Functions
“Government Accountability Office” substituted in text for “General Accounting Office” pursuant to section 8 of Pub. L. 108–271, set out as a note under section 702 of Title 31, Money and Finance, which redesignated the General Accounting Office and any references thereto as the Government Accountability Office. Previously, “General Accounting Office” substituted in text for “accounting officers of the Treasury” pursuant to act , which transferred powers and duties of Comptroller, six auditors, and certain other employees of the Treasury to General Accounting Office. See section 701 et seq. of Title 31.
Credits
1902–2004 · 4 acts
- 1902Feb. 14, 1902, ch. 17, § 1, 32 Stat. 26
- 1921June 10, 1921, ch. 18, title III, § 304, 42 Stat. 24
- 1996Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 204(45), , 110 Stat. 1737
- 2004Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), , 118 Stat. 814.
Show as published
(Feb. 14, 1902, ch. 17, § 1, 32 Stat. 26; June 10, 1921, ch. 18, title III, § 304, 42 Stat. 24; Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 204(45), , 110 Stat. 1737; Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), , 118 Stat. 814.)