§ 60g-2. — Lyndon Baines Johnson congressional interns.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC60g-2]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 4--OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Sec. 60g-2. Lyndon Baines Johnson congressional interns
(a) Hiring authority of House Members, Delegates, and Resident
Commissioners; allowance for payment of compensation
Until otherwise provided by law and notwithstanding any other
provision of law, each Member of, Delegate to, and Resident Commissioner
in, the House of Representatives is authorized to hire for two months in
any year one additional employee to be known as a Lyndon Baines Johnson
congressional intern in honor of the former President. Each such intern
shall be a student or a teacher and certified as such under subsection
(b) of this section. Each such Member, Delegate, or Resident
Commissioner shall have available for payment of compensation to such
intern a total allowance of $1,000, to be payable to such intern at a
rate not to exceed $500 per month, out of the applicable accounts of the
House of Representatives. Such intern and such allowance shall be in
addition to all personnel and allowances made available to such Member,
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner under other provisions of law or
other authority.
(b) Certification of intern status; filing
No person shall be paid compensation as a Lyndon Baines Johnson
congressional intern who does not have on file with the Chief
Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives, at all times
during the period of his employment as such intern, an appropriate
certificate which is applicable to his intern status, as described
below:
(1) if the intern is a student, a certificate that such intern
was during the academic year immediately preceding his employment, a
bona fide student at a college, university, or similar institution
of higher learning; or
(2) if the intern is a teacher, a certificate that such intern
was, in the year immediately preceding his employment, a bona fide
teacher in government or social studies at a secondary school or a
postsecondary school.
(c) Regulations by Committee on House Oversight
The Committee on House Oversight shall prescribe such regulations as
may be necessary to carry out this section.
(Pub. L. 93-245, ch. VI, Jan. 3, 1974, 87 Stat. 1079; Pub. L. 104-186,
title II, Sec. 204(6), (7), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1730.)
Codification
Section is based on section 1 of House Resolution No. 420, Ninety-
third Congress, Sept. 18, 1973, which was enacted into permanent law by
Pub. L. 93-245.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 60g-2, based on House Resolution No. 416, Eighty-
ninth Congress, June 16, 1965, as enacted into permanent law by Pub. L.
89-545, Sec. 103, Aug. 27, 1966, 80 Stat. 369, which related to
employment of student congressional interns by Members of the House of
Representatives and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, was
repealed by section 2 of House Resolution No. 420, Ninety-third
Congress, Sept. 18, 1973, as enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 93-
245, ch. VI, Sec. 600, Jan. 3, 1974, 87 Stat. 1079, which provided that:
``H. Res. 416, Eighty-ninth Congress, adopted June 16, 1965, and enacted
as permanent law by section 103 of the Legislative Branch Appropriation
Act, 1967 (80 Stat. 369; Public Law 89-545; 2 U.S.C. 60g-2), shall not
be effective in the Ninety-third Congress on and after the effective
date specified in section 3 of this resolution; and, effective on the
date of enactment of the provisions of this resolution as permanent law,
such H. Res. 416, Eighty-ninth Congress, is repealed.''
Amendments
1996--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-186, Sec. 204(7)(A), substituted
``applicable accounts of the House of Representatives'' for ``contingent
fund of the House''.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-186, Sec. 204(6), substituted ``Chief
Administrative Officer'' for ``Clerk''.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-186, Sec. 204(7)(B), substituted ``House
Oversight'' for ``House Administration''.
Change of Name
Committee on House Oversight of House of Representatives changed to
Committee on House Administration of House of Representatives by House
Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Jan. 6, 1999.
Effective Date
Section 3 of House Resolution No. 420, Ninety-third Congress, as
enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 93-245, provided that: ``The
provisions of this resolution [enacting this section and repealing House
Resolution No. 416, Eighty-ninth Congress, formerly classified to this
section] shall become effective on January 1, 1974.''