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§ 36. —  Salaries of Senators.



[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC36]

 
                          TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
 
            CHAPTER 3--COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS
 
Sec. 36. Salaries of Senators

    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.

(Feb. 10, 1923, ch. 68, 42 Stat. 1225; Feb. 6, 1931, ch. 111, 46 Stat. 
1065; June 19, 1934, ch. 648, title I, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 1022; Feb. 13, 
1935, ch. 6, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 22, 23.)


                            Prior Provisions

    July 31, 1894, ch. 174, 28 Stat. 162.
    R.S. Sec. 51.


                               Amendments

    1935--Act Feb. 13, 1935, 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 June 19, 1934, made nonsubstantive changes in grammar and 
punctuation.
    1931--Act Feb. 6, 1931, made nonsubstantive changes in grammar and 
punctuation and struck out ``to fill such vacancies'' after ``When no 
appointments have been made''.


                        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.''



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