§ 58c. — Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense Account.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC58c]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 3--COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS
Sec. 58c. Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense
Account
(1) Effective January 1, 1988, there shall be, within the contingent
fund of the Senate, a separate appropriation account to be known as the
``Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense Account'' (hereinafter
in this section referred to as the ``Senators' Account'').
(2) The Senators' Account shall be used for the funding of all
items, activities, and expenses which, immediately prior to January 1,
1988, were funded under either (A) the Senate appropriation account for
``Administrative, Clerical, and Legislative Assistance Allowance to
Senators'' (hereinafter in this section referred to as the ``Senators'
Clerk Hire Allowance Account'') under the headings ``SENATE'' and
``Salaries, Officers and Employees'', or (B) that part of the account,
within the contingent fund of the Senate, for ``Miscellaneous Items''
(hereinafter in this section referred to as the ``Senators' Official
Office Expense Account'') which is available for allocation to
Senatorial Official Office Expense Accounts. In addition, the Senators'
Account shall be used for the funding of agency contributions payable
with respect to compensation payable by such account, but moneys
appropriated to such account for this purpose shall not be available for
any other purpose. The account, which in clause (A) of the first
sentence of this paragraph is identified as the ``Senators' Clerk Hire
Allowance Account'' and the account, which in clause (B) of such
sentence is identified as the ``Senators' Official Office Expense
Account'' shall, when referred to in other law, rule, regulation, or
order (whether referred to by such name or any other) shall on and after
January 1, 1988, be deemed to refer to the ``Senators' Official
Personnel and Office Expense Account''.
(3)(A) Effective on January 1, 1988, there shall be transferred to
the Senators' Account from the Senators' Clerk Hire Allowance Account
all funds therein which were available for expenditure or obligation
during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1988, and from the Senators'
Official Office Expense Account so much of the funds therein as was
available for expenditure or obligation for the period commencing
January 1, 1988, and ending September 30, 1988; except that the
Senators' Official Office Expense Account shall remain in being solely
for the purpose of being available to pay for any authorized item,
activity, or expense, for which funds therein had been obligated, but
not paid, prior to such transfer.
(B) Any of the funds transferred to the Senators' Account from the
Senators' Clerk Hire Allowance Account pursuant to subparagraph (A)
which, prior to such transfer, had been obligated, but not expended, for
any authorized item, activity, or expense, shall be available to pay for
such item, activity, or expense in like manner as if such transfer had
not been made.
(4) On January 1, 1988, there shall be transferred to the Senators'
Account, from the appropriation account for ``Agency Contributions'',
under the headings ``SENATE'' and ``Salaries, Officers and Employees'',
so much of the moneys in such account as was appropriated for the
purpose of making agency contributions for administrative, clerical, and
legislative assistance to Senators with respect to compensation payable
for the period commencing January 1, 1988, and ending September 30,
1988; and the moneys so transferred shall be available only for the
payment of such agency contributions with respect to such compensation.
(5) Vouchers shall not be required for the disbursement, from the
Senators' Account, of salaries of employees in the office of a Senator.
(6) Effective on and after October 1, 1997, the Senators' Account
shall be available for the payment of franked mail expenses of Senators.
(Pub. L. 100-137, Sec. 1(a), Oct. 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 814; Pub. L. 105-
55, title I, Sec. 3(b), Oct. 7, 1997, 111 Stat. 1180.)
References in Text
This section, referred to in pars. (1) and (2), means section 1 of
Pub. L. 100-137, Oct. 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 814, which enacted this
section, amended sections 58 and 61-1 of this title, and enacted
provisions set out as notes under sections 58 and 61-1 of this title.
Amendments
1997--Par. (6). Pub. L. 105-55 added par. (6).
Construction of 1997 Amendment
Section 3(d) of Pub. L. 105-55 provided that: ``Nothing in this
section [amending this section and section 58 of this title, repealing
section 58c-1 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes
under sections 58 and 58c-1 of this title] affects the authority of the
Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate to prescribe
regulations relating to the frank by Senators and officers of the
Senate.''
