§ 61f-8. — Use by Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of Senate of individual consultants or organizations, and department and agency personnel.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC61f-8]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 4--OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Sec. 61f-8. Use by Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of Senate of
individual consultants or organizations, and department and
agency personnel
For each fiscal year (beginning with the fiscal year which ends
September 30, 1982), the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate
is hereby authorized to expend from the account for the Sergeant at Arms
and Doorkeeper of the Senate, within the contingent fund of the Senate,
an amount not to exceed $300,000:
(1) the procurement of the services, on a temporary basis, of
individual consultants, or organizations thereof, with the prior
consent of the Committee on Rules and Administration; such services
may be procured by contract with the providers acting as independent
contractors, or in the case of individuals, by employment at daily
rates of compensation not in excess of the per diem equivalent of
the highest gross rate of annual compensation which may be paid to
employees of a standing committee of the Senate; and any such
contract shall not be subject to the provisions of section 5 of
title 41 or any other provision of law requiring advertising; and
(2) with the prior consent of the Government department or
agency concerned and the Committee on Rules and Administration, use
on a reimbursable basis (with reimbursement payable at the end of
each calendar quarter for services rendered during such quarter) of
the services of personnel of any such department or agency.
Payments made under this section shall be made upon vouchers approved by
the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate.
(Pub. L. 97-51, Sec. 117, Oct. 1, 1981, 95 Stat. 964; Pub. L. 97-257,
title I, Sec. 103, Sept. 10, 1982, 96 Stat. 849; Pub. L. 98-367, title
I, Sec. 7, July 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 475; Pub. L. 100-458, title I,
Sec. 7, Oct. 1, 1988, 102 Stat. 2162.)
Amendments
1988--Pub. L. 100-458 substituted ``from the account for the
Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, within the contingent
fund of the Senate, an amount not to exceed $300,000:'' for ``from the
contingent fund of the Senate an amount not to exceed $210,000 for:''.
1984--Pub. L. 98-367 substituted ``$210,000'' for ``$60,000''.
1982--Par. (1). Pub. L. 97-257 substituted ``the procurement of the
services, on a temporary basis, of individual consultants, or
organizations thereof, with the prior consent of the Committee on Rules
and Administration; such services may be procured by contract with the
providers acting as independent contractors, or in the case of
individuals, by employment at daily rates of compensation not in excess
of the per diem equivalent of the highest gross rate of annual
compensation which may be paid to employees of a standing committee of
the Senate; and any such contract shall not be subject to the provisions
of section 5 of title 41 or any other provision of law requiring
advertising; and'' for ``the procurement of individual consultants, on a
temporary or intermittent basis, at a daily rate of compensation not in
excess of the per diem equivalent of the highest gross rate of annual
compensation which may be paid to employees of a standing committee of
the Senate with the prior consent of the Committee on Rules and
Administration; and''.
