Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 63 — Senate Members
§ 6302. Salaries of Senators
Statutory text
Salaries of Senators appointed to fill vacancies in the Senate shall commence on the day of their appointment and continue until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, That when Senators have been elected during a sine die adjournment of the Senate to succeed appointees, the salaries of Senators so elected shall commence on the day following their election.
Salaries of Senators elected during a session to succeed appointees shall commence on the day they qualify: Provided, That when Senators have been elected during a session to succeed appointees, but have not qualified, the salaries of Senators so elected shall commence on the day following the sine die adjournment of the Senate.
When no appointments have been made the salaries of Senators elected to fill such vacancies shall commence on the day following their election.
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. 67–68 · 42 Stat. 171
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 6302
Feb. 10, 1923, ch. 68, 42 Stat. 1225
Source evidence
Code source credit
Feb. 10, 1923, ch. 68, 42 Stat. 1225
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 36 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Prior Provisions
Prior similar provisions were contained in act July 31, 1894, ch. 174, 28 Stat. 162.
R.S. § 51.
Amendments1931–1935 · 3 rounds
1935
Act , inserted proviso as to commencement of salaries of Senators elected during a sine die adjournment on day following their election and provision as to commencement of salaries of Senators elected during a session to succeed appointees on day they qualify but that upon failure to qualify their salaries are to commence on day following sine die adjournment of Senate and struck out provision that salaries of Senators elected to fill vacancies are to commence on day they qualify.
1934
Act , made nonsubstantive changes in grammar and punctuation.
1931
Act , made nonsubstantive changes in grammar and punctuation and struck out “to fill such vacancies” after “When no appointments have been made”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Constitutional Provisions
The first section of amendment XX to the Constitution provides in part: “* * * the terms of Senators and Representatives [shall end] at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.”
Credits
1923–1935 · 4 acts
- 1923Feb. 10, 1923, ch. 68, 42 Stat. 1225
- 1931Feb. 6, 1931, ch. 111, 46 Stat. 1065
- 1934June 19, 1934, ch. 648, title I, § 1, 48 Stat. 1022
- 1935Feb. 13, 1935, ch. 6, § 1, 49 Stat. 22, 23.
Show as published
(Feb. 10, 1923, ch. 68, 42 Stat. 1225; Feb. 6, 1931, ch. 111, 46 Stat. 1065; June 19, 1934, ch. 648, title I, § 1, 48 Stat. 1022; Feb. 13, 1935, ch. 6, § 1, 49 Stat. 22, 23.)