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Title 2 — The Congress

Chapter 65 — Senate Officers and Administration

§ 6508. Transfers from appropriations account for expenses of Office of Secretary of Senate and Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of Senate

Statutory text

(a)

The Secretary of the Senate is authorized, with the approval of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, to transfer, during any fiscal year (1) from the appropriations account, within the contingent fund of the Senate, for expenses of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, such sums as he shall specify to the Senate appropriations account, appropriated under the headings “Salaries, Officers and Employees” and “Office of the Secretary”, and (2) from the Senate appropriations account, appropriated under the headings “Salaries, Officers and Employees” and “Office of the Secretary” to the appropriations account, within the contingent fund of the Senate, for expenses of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, such sums as he shall specify; and any funds so transferred shall be available in like manner and for the same purposes as are other funds in the account to which the funds are transferred.

(b)

The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate is authorized, with the approval of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, to transfer, during any fiscal year, from the appropriations account, within the contingent fund of the Senate, for expenses of the Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, such sums as he shall specify to the appropriations account, appropriated under the headings “Salaries, Officers and Employees” and “Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper”; and any funds so transferred shall be available in like manner and for the same purposes as are other funds in the account to which the funds are transferred.

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. John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Training and Development Act

    Pub. L. 100–458 title I § 3 · 102 Stat. 2158

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 6508

    Pub. L. 100–458, title I, § 3, Oct. 1, 1988, 102 Stat. 2161

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 100–458, title I, § 3, Oct. 1, 1988, 102 Stat. 2161

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. (a) The Secretary of the Senate is authorized, with the 2 USC 68–6. approval of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, to transfer, during any fiscal year, from the appropriations account, within the contingent fund of the Senate, for expenses of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, such sums as he shall specify to the Senate appropriations account, appropriated under the headings “Salaries, Officers and Employees” and “Office of the Secretary”; and any funds so transferred shall be available in like manner and for the same purposes as are other funds in the account to which the funds are transferred. (b) The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate is authorized, with the approval of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, to transfer, during any fiscal year, from the appropriations account, within the contingent fund of the Senate, for expenses of the Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, such sums as he shall specify to the appropriations account, appropriated under the headings “Salaries, Officers and Employees” and “Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper”; and any funds so transferred shall be available in like manner and for the same purposes as are other funds in the account to which the funds are transferred.

  2. Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Assistance, Food Stamps, Unemployment Compensation Administration, and Other Urgent Needs, and Transfers, and Reducing Funds Budgeted for Military Spending Act of 1990

    Pub. L. 101–302 title III § 317 · 104 Stat. 213

    1. Amended · 2 U.S.C. § 6508(a)

      Pub. L. 101–302 designated existing provisions as cl. (1)

    2. Added · 2 U.S.C. § 6508(a)

      Pub. L. 101–302 added cl. (2)

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–302 designated existing provisions as cl. (1) and added cl. (2).

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 317. Subsection (a) of section 3 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1989 (2 U.S.C. 68–6(a)) is amended— (1) by striking out “during any fiscal year,” and inserting in lieu thereof “during any fiscal year (1)”; and (2) by striking out “, and” and inserting in lieu thereof “, and (2) from the Senate appropriations account, appropriated under the headings ‘Salaries, Officers and Employees’ and ‘Office of the Secretary’ to the appropriations account, within the contingent fund of the Senate, for expenses of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, such sums as he shall specify; and”.

3 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 68–6 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is from the Congressional Operations Appropriations Act, 1989, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1989.

Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in the following prior appropriation act:

Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(i) [title I, § 8], , 101 Stat. 1329–290, 1329–295.

Amendments

1990—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–302 designated existing provisions as cl. (1) and added cl. (2).

Credits

1988–1990 · 2 acts
  1. 1988Pub. L. 100–458, title I, § 3, , 102 Stat. 2161
  2. 1990Pub. L. 101–302, title III, § 317, , 104 Stat. 247.
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(Pub. L. 100–458, title I, § 3, , 102 Stat. 2161; Pub. L. 101–302, title III, § 317, , 104 Stat. 247.)

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