§ 43b-2. — Staff expenses for House Members attending organizational caucus or conference.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC43b-2]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 3--COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS
Sec. 43b-2. Staff expenses for House Members attending
organizational caucus or conference
(a) Each Member-elect (other than an incumbent Member reelected to
the ensuing Congress) who attends a caucus or conference called under
section 29a(a) of this title, and each incumbent Member reelected to the
ensuing Congress who attends any such caucus or conference convening
after the adjournment sine die of the Congress in the year involved,
shall be entitled to designate one staff person to be paid for one round
trip between that person's place of residence, provided such place of
residence is in the district which the Member-elect or incumbent Member
represents, and Washington, District of Columbia, for the purpose of
accompanying that Member-elect or incumbent Member to such caucus or
conference.
(b) Each Member-elect (other than an incumbent Member reelected to
the ensuing Congress) who attends a caucus or conference called under
such section 29a(a) of this title shall be entitled to designate one
staff person who shall in addition be reimbursed on a per diem or other
basis for expenses incurred in accompanying the Member-elect at the time
of such caucus or conference for a period not to exceed the shorter of
the following--
(i) the period beginning with the day before the designated date
upon which such caucus or conference is to convene and ending with
the day after the date of the final adjournment of such caucus or
conference; or
(ii) fourteen days.
(Pub. L. 94-59, title II, July 25, 1975, 89 Stat. 282.)
Codification
Section is based on section 1 of House Resolution No. 10, Ninety-
fourth Congress, Jan. 14, 1975, which was enacted into permanent law by
Pub. L. 94-59.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 43b-3 of this title.
