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§ 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.''



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