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Title 2 — The Congress

Chapter 55 — House of Representatives Officers and Administration

§ 5511. Transfer of funds

Statutory text

(a)

Transfer of unexpended appropriations for salaries and expenses

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon completion of the second fiscal year which begins after the end of the period during which amounts appropriated under any of the items under the heading “House of Representatives, Salaries and Expenses” are available for obligation or expenditure, any such amounts which remain unobligated and unexpended shall be transferred to the heading “House of Representatives, Salaries and Expenses, Allowances and Expenses” and shall be available until expended for purposes of House of Representatives Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.

(b)

Exception for Members’ Representational Allowances

Subsection (a) does not apply to amounts appropriated under the heading “House of Representatives, Salaries and Expenses, Members’ Representational Allowances”.

(c)

Notification

The Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall notify the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives prior to the obligation or expenditure of any amounts transferred under subsection (a).

(d)

Applicability

This section shall apply with respect to amounts appropriated for fiscal year 2018 or any succeeding fiscal year.

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. Department of the Treasury Appropriations Act, 2018

    Pub. L. 115–141 div. I title I § 119 · 132 Stat. 348

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 5511

    (Pub. L. 115–141, div. I, title I, § 119, Mar. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 777.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 115–141, div. I, title I, § 119, Mar. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 777.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 119. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any other Act may be used by the United States Mint to construct or operate any museum without the explicit approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the House Committee on Financial Services, and the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 115–141, div. I, title I, § 119, , 132 Stat. 777.)

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