§ 123b. — House Recording Studio; Senate Recording Studio and Senate Photographic Studio.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC123b]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 4--OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Sec. 123b. House Recording Studio; Senate Recording Studio and
Senate Photographic Studio
(a) Establishment
There is established the House Recording Studio, the Senate
Recording Studio, and the Senate Photographic Studio.
(b) Assistance in making disk, film, and tape recordings; exclusiveness
of use
The House Recording Studio shall assist Members of the House of
Representatives in making disk, film, and tape recordings, and in
performing such other functions and duties in connection with the making
of such recordings as may be necessary. The Senate Recording Studio and
the Senate Photographic Studio shall assist Members of the Senate and
committees of the Senate in making disk, film, and tape recordings, and
in performing such other functions and duties in connection with the
making of such recordings as may be necessary. The House Recording
Studio shall be for the exclusive use of Members of the House of
Representatives (including the Delegates and the Resident Commissioner
from Puerto Rico); the Senate Recording Studio and the Senate
Photographic Studio shall be for the exclusive use of Members of the
Senate, the Vice President, committees of the Senate, the Secretary of
the Senate, and the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate.
(c) Operation of studios
The House Recording Studio shall be operated by the Chief
Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives under the
direction and control of a committee which is created (hereinafter
referred to as the committee) composed of three Members of the House.
Two members of the committee shall be from the majority party and one
member shall be from the minority party, to be appointed by the Speaker.
The committee is authorized to issue such rules and regulations relating
to operation of the House Recording Studio as it may deem necessary.
The Senate Recording Studio and the Senate Photographic Studio shall
be operated by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate under the direction
and control of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate.
The Committee on Rules and Administration is authorized to issue such
rules and regulations relating to operation of the Senate Recording
Studio and the Senate Photographic Studio as it may deem necessary.
(d) Prices of disk, film, and tape recordings; collection of moneys
The Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives
shall, subject to the approval of the committee, set the price of making
disk, film, and tape recordings, and collect all moneys owed the House
Recording Studio. The Committee on Rules and Administration of the
Senate shall set the price of making disk, film, and tape recordings and
all moneys owed the Senate Recording Studio and the Senate Photographic
Studio shall be collected by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate.
(e) Restrictions on expenditures
No moneys shall be expended or obligated for the House Recording
Studio except as shall be pursuant to such regulations as the committee
may approve. No moneys shall be expended or obligated by the Director of
the Senate Recording Studio or the Director of the Senate Photographic
Studio until approval therefor has been obtained from the Sergeant at
Arms of the Senate.
(f) Appointment of Director and other employees of House Recording
Studio
The Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives is
authorized, subject to the approval of the committee, to appoint a
Director of the House Recording Studio and such other employees as are
deemed necessary to the operation of the House Recording Studio.
(g) Revolving funds
There is established in the Treasury of the United States, a
revolving fund for the House Recording Studio for the purposes of
administering the duties of that studio. There is also established in
the Treasury of the United States a revolving fund, within the
contingent fund of the Senate, which shall be known as the ``Senate
Photographic Studio Revolving Fund'', for the purpose of administering
the duties of the Senate Photographic Studio; and there is established
in the Treasury of the United States, a revolving fund, within the
contingent fund of the Senate, which shall be known as the ``Senate
Recording Studio Revolving Fund'', for the purpose of administering the
duties of the Senate Recording Studio.
(h) Deposits in funds; availability of funds
All moneys received by the House Recording Studio from Members of
the House of Representatives for disk, film, or tape recordings, or from
any other source, shall be deposited by the Chief Administrative Officer
of the House of Representatives in the revolving fund established for
the House Recording Studio by subsection (g) of this section; moneys in
such fund shall be available for disbursement therefrom by the Chief
Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives for the care,
maintenance, operation, and other expenses of the studio upon vouchers
signed and approved in such manner as the committee shall prescribe. All
moneys received by the Senate Recording Studio shall be deposited in the
Senate Recording Studio Revolving Fund established by subsection (g) of
this section and all funds received by the Senate Photographic Studio
shall be deposited in the Senate Photographic Studio Revolving Fund
established by such subsection; moneys in the Senate Recording Studio
Revolving Fund shall be available for disbursement therefrom upon
vouchers signed by the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate for
the care, maintenance, operation, and other expenses of the Senate
Recording Studio, and moneys in the Senate Photographic Studio Revolving
Fund shall be available for disbursement therefrom upon vouchers signed
by the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate for the care,
maintenance, operation, and other expenses of the Senate Photographic
Studio.
(i) Distribution of equity of Joint Senate and House Recording Facility
Revolving Fund; assignment of existing studio facilities,
equipment, materials and supplies; transfer of accounts; reserve
fund; distribution of balance
(1) As soon as practicable after June 27, 1956, but no later than
September 30, 1956, the equity of the Joint Senate and House Recording
Facility Revolving Fund shall be distributed equally to the Senate and
House of Representatives on the basis of an audit to be made by the
General Accounting Office.
(2) The Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of
Representatives shall, subject to the approval of the committees
mentioned in subsection (c) of this section, determine the assignment of
existing studio facilities to the Senate and the House of
Representatives, and also the existing equipment, materials and supplies
to be transferred to the respective studios. The evaluation of
equipment, materials and supplies transferred to each studio shall be on
the basis of market value. Any other equipment, materials and supplies
determined to be obsolete or not needed for the operation of the
respective studio shall be disposed of to the best interest of the
Government and the proceeds thereof deposited in the Joint Senate and
House Recording Facility Revolving Fund.
(3) Accounts receivable, which on the effective date of liquidation,
are due from Members and committees of the Senate shall be transferred
to the Senate Studio, and those due from Members and committees of the
House of Representatives shall be transferred to the House Studio.
(4) A sufficient reserve shall be set aside from the Joint Senate
and House Recording Facility Revolving Fund to liquidate any outstanding
accounts payable.
(5) After appropriate adjustments for the value of assets assigned
or transferred to the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively,
the balance in the Joint Senate and House Recording Facility Revolving
Fund shall be distributed equally to the Senate and House of
Representatives for deposit to the respective revolving funds authorized
by this section.
(j) Availability of existing services and facilities
Pending acquisition of the stock, supplies, materials, and equipment
necessary to properly equip both studios, the present services and
facilities shall be made available to both studios in order that each
studio may carry out its duty.
(k) Restrictions on employment
No person shall be an officer or employee of the House Recording
Studio, Senate Recording Studio, or Senate Photographic Studio while he
is engaged in any other business, profession, occupation, or employment
which involves the performance of duties which are similar to those
which would be performed by him as such an officer or employee of such
studio unless approved in writing by the committee in the case of the
House Recording Studio and the Senate Committee on Rules and
Administration in the case of the Senate Recording Studio and the Senate
Photographic Studio.
(l) Abolition of Joint Recording Facility positions and salaries
The Joint Recording Facility positions and salaries established
pursuant to the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1948, and all
subsequent Acts are abolished.
(m) Repeals
Effective with the completion of the transfer provided for by
subsection (i) of this section the joint resolution entitled ``Joint
resolution establishing in the Treasury of the United States a revolving
fund within the contingent fund of the House of Representatives'',
approved August 7, 1953, is repealed.
(n) Repealed. Pub. L. 92-310, title II, Sec. 220(j), June 6, 1972, 86
Stat. 205
(o) Authorization of appropriations
Such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this
section are authorized to be appropriated.
(June 27, 1956, ch. 453, Sec. 105, 70 Stat. 370; Pub. L. 88-652,
Sec. 16(a), Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1084; Pub. L. 92-310, title II,
Sec. 220(j), June 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 205; Pub. L. 96-304, title I,
Sec. 108(a), July 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 890; Pub. L. 97-257, title I,
Sec. 102, Sept. 10, 1982, 96 Stat. 849; Pub. L. 101-520, title I,
Sec. 7(a), (c), (d), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 2258, 2259; Pub. L. 104-
186, title II, Sec. 204(68), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1740.)
Amendments
1996--Subsecs. (c), (d), (f). Pub. L. 104-186, Sec. 204(68)(A),
substituted ``Chief Administrative Officer'' for ``Clerk''.
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 104-186, Sec. 204(68)(B), struck out ``within
the contingent fund of the House of Representatives'' before ``for the
House Recording Studio''.
Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 104-186, Sec. 204(68)(A), substituted ``Chief
Administrative Officer'' for ``Clerk'' in two places.
1990--Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 101-520, Sec. 7(a), amended second
sentence generally. Prior to amendment, second sentence read as follows:
``There is also established in the Treasury of the United States, a
revolving fund within the contingent fund of the Senate for the Senate
Recording and Photographic Studios for the purposes of administering the
duties of that studio.''
Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 101-520, Sec. 7(c), amended second sentence
generally. Prior to amendment, second sentence read as follows: ``All
moneys received by the Senate Recording and Photographic Studios for
disk, film, or tape recordings or from any other source, shall be
deposited in the revolving fund established for the Senate Recording and
Photographic Studios by subsection (g) of this section; moneys in such
fund shall be available for disbursement therefrom upon vouchers signed
and approved by the Sergeant at Arms for the care, maintenance,
operation, and other expenses of the Senate Recording and Photographic
Studios.''
1982--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97-257 inserted reference to Secretary of
Senate and Sergeant at Arms of Senate.
1972--Subsec. (n). Pub. L. 92-310 repealed subsec. (n) which
required Directors of House and Senate Recording Studios to give bonds
in sum of $20,000 each.
1964--Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 88-652 struck out ``and fix the
compensation of'' after ``to appoint''.
Effective Date of 1990 Amendment
Section 7(b) of Pub. L. 101-520 provided that: ``The amendment made
by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall take effect on April 1,
1991, and, of the monies in the revolving fund within the contingent
fund of the Senate for the Recording and Photographic Studios, as such
fund was in existence immediately prior to the amendment made by
subsection (a), $100,000 shall be deposited in the Senate Photographic
Studio Revolving Fund (as established by the amendment made by
subsection (a)) and the remainder shall be deposited into the Senate
Recording Studio Revolving Fund (as so established).''
Section 7(c) of Pub. L. 101-520 provided that the amendment made by
that section is effective Apr. 1, 1991.
Effective Date of 1964 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 88-652 effective Jan. 1, 1965, see section 17
of Pub. L. 88-652, set out as an Effective Date note under section 291
of this title.
Transfer of Functions
References to Senate Recording Studio and Senate Photographic Studio
substituted for ``Senate Recording and Photographic Studios'' wherever
appearing in text pursuant to section 108(a) of Pub. L. 96-304, as
amended by section 7(d) of Pub. L. 101-520, which is classified to
section 123b-1(a) of this title, and which abolished entity known as
Senate Recording and Photographic Studios, established instead Senate
Recording Studio and Senate Photographic Studio, and made corresponding
transfer of functions. Previously, ``Senate Recording and Photographic
Studios'' had been substituted in text for ``Senate Recording Studio''
pursuant to section 108(a) of Pub. L. 96-304.
Appropriations Acts as Determining Extent of Availability of Funds and
Accounts
Pub. L. 104-53, title I, Sec. 107, Nov. 19, 1995, 109 Stat. 522,
provided that:
``(a) Each fund and account specified in subsection (b) shall be
available only to the extent provided in appropriations Acts.
``(b) The funds and accounts referred to in subsection (a) are--
``(1) the revolving fund for the House Barber Shops, established
by the paragraph under the heading `House Barber Shops Revolving
Fund' in the matter relating to the House of Representatives in
chapter III of title I of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1975
(Public Law 93-554; 88 Stat. 1776);
``(2) the revolving fund for the House Beauty Shop, established
by the matter under the heading `house beauty shop' in the matter
relating to administrative provisions for the House of
Representatives in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1970
(Public Law 91-145; 83 Stat. 347);
``(3) the special deposit account established for the House of
Representatives Restaurant by section 208 of the First Supplemental
Civil Functions Appropriation Act, 1941 (40 U.S.C. 174k note)
[former 40 U.S.C. 174k]; and
``(4) the revolving fund established for the House Recording
Studio by section 105(g) of the Legislative Branch Appropriation
Act, 1957 (2 U.S.C. 123b(g)).
``(c) This section shall take effect on October 1, 1995, and shall
apply with respect to fiscal years beginning on or after that date.''
